diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 03e8abe..147abf2 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 *.egg/
 *.egg-info/
 coverage.xml
+etc/evoque/evoque.conf
 nosetests.xml
 pep8.txt
 pylint.txt
diff --git a/generate-config-file.sh b/generate-config-file.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..d24677e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/generate-config-file.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+mkdir -p etc/evoque
+oslo-config-generator --output-file etc/evoque/evoque.conf \
+                      --namespace evoque \
+                      --namespace oslo.log \
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 126df60..990e2dd 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ commands = {posargs}
 [testenv:docs]
 commands = python setup.py build_sphinx
 
+[testenv:genconfig]
+commands = {toxinidir}/generate-config-file.sh
+
 [flake8]
 ignore = E711,E712,H404,H405
 exclude = .venv,.git,.tox,dist,doc,etc,*lib/python*,*egg,build