diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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+++ b/.gitignore
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+.tox
diff --git a/.zuul.yaml b/.zuul.yaml
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+++ b/.zuul.yaml
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+---
+- project:
+    check:
+      jobs:
+        - openstack-tox-linters
+    gate:
+      jobs:
+        - openstack-tox-linters
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.rst b/CONTRIBUTING.rst
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+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.rst
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+If you would like to contribute to the development of OpenStack,
+you must follow the steps in this page:
+
+   https://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html
+
+Once those steps have been completed, changes to OpenStack
+should be submitted for review via the Gerrit tool, following
+the workflow documented at:
+
+   https://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html#development-workflow
+
+Pull requests submitted through GitHub will be ignored.
+
+Bugs should be filed in Launchpad:
+
+   https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx
diff --git a/HACKING.rst b/HACKING.rst
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+StarlingX Utilities Style Commandments
+======================================
+
+- Step 1: Read the OpenStack style commandments
+  https://docs.openstack.org/hacking/latest/
+- Step 2: Read on
+
+Utilities Specific Commandments
+-------------------------------
+
+None so far
+
+Running tests
+-------------
+The approach to running tests is to simply run the command ``tox``. This will
+create virtual environments, populate them with dependencies and run all of
+the tests that OpenStack CI systems run.
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
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+++ b/requirements.txt
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+# Nothing
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
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+++ b/test-requirements.txt
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+# hacking pulls in flake8
+hacking!=0.13.0,<0.14,>=0.12.0 # Apache-2.0
+bashate >= 0.2
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
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+++ b/tox.ini
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+[tox]
+envlist = linters
+minversion = 2.3
+skipsdist = True
+sitepackages=False
+
+[testenv]
+install_command = pip install -U {opts} {packages}
+setenv =
+   VIRTUAL_ENV={envdir}
+   OS_STDOUT_CAPTURE=1
+   OS_STDERR_CAPTURE=1
+   OS_DEBUG=1
+   OS_LOG_CAPTURE=1
+deps =
+  -r{toxinidir}/requirements.txt
+  -r{toxinidir}/test-requirements.txt
+whitelist_externals =
+  bash
+
+[testenv:bashate]
+# Treat all E* codes as Errors rather than warnings using: -e 'E*'
+# The following codes are being suppressed:
+# E006 line too long
+# E010 The "do" should be on same line as for
+# E041 Arithmetic expansion using $[ is deprecated for $((
+# E042 local declaration hides errors
+# E043 Arithmetic compound has inconsistent return semantics
+# E044 Use [[ for non-POSIX comparisions
+commands =
+  bash -c "find {toxinidir}                    \
+         -not \( -type d -name .?\* -prune \) \
+         -type f                              \
+         -not -name \*~                       \
+         -not -name \*.md                     \
+         -name \*.sh                          \
+         -print0 | xargs -n 1 -0 bashate -v   \
+         -i E006,E010,E041,E042,E043,E044          \
+         -e 'E*'"
+
+[flake8]
+# Note: hacking pulls in flake8 2.5.5 which can not parse an ignore list spanning multiple lines
+# F errors are high priority to fix. W are warnings. E series are pep8, H series are hacking
+# F401 'FOO' imported but unused
+# F841 local variable 'FOO' is assigned to but never used
+# W291 trailing whitespace
+# W391 blank line at end of file
+# E128 continuation line under-indented for visual indent
+# E221 multiple spaces before operator
+# E226 missing whitespace around arithmetic operator
+# E227 missing whitespace around bitwise or shift operator
+# E241 multiple spaces after ','
+# E265 block comment should start with '# '
+# E302 expected 2 blank lines, found 1
+# E501 line too long
+# E502 the backslash is redundant between brackets
+# E702 multiple statements on one line (semicolon)
+# H101 is TODO
+# H104  File contains nothing but comments
+# H201  no 'except:' at least use 'except Exception:'
+# H238  old style class declaration, use new style (inherit from `object`)
+# H306  imports not in alphabetical order (sys, re)
+# H401  docstring should not start with a space
+# H405  multi line docstring summary not separated with an empty line
+ignore = F401,F841,W291,W391,E128,E221,E226,E227,E241,E265,E302,E501,E502,E702,H101,H104,H201,H238,H306,H401,H405
+# max-line-length is not referenced if E501 is suppressed
+max-line-length=80
+
+[testenv:flake8]
+commands =
+  flake8
+
+[testenv:linters]
+commands =
+    {[testenv:bashate]commands}
+    {[testenv:flake8]commands}