diff --git a/glance/tests/unit/fixtures.py b/glance/tests/unit/fixtures.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e082df386d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/glance/tests/unit/fixtures.py
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+#    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+#    not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
+#    a copy of the License at
+#
+#         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+#    WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+#    License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+#    under the License.
+
+"""Fixtures for Glance unit tests."""
+# NOTE(mriedem): This is needed for importing from fixtures.
+from __future__ import absolute_import
+
+import warnings
+
+import fixtures as pyfixtures
+
+
+class WarningsFixture(pyfixtures.Fixture):
+    """Filters out warnings during test runs."""
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        super(WarningsFixture, self).setUp()
+        # NOTE(sdague): Make deprecation warnings only happen once. Otherwise
+        # this gets kind of crazy given the way that upstream python libs use
+        # this.
+        warnings.simplefilter('once', DeprecationWarning)
+
+        # NOTE(sdague): this remains an unresolved item around the way
+        # forward on is_admin, the deprecation is definitely really premature.
+        warnings.filterwarnings(
+            'ignore',
+            message='Policy enforcement is depending on the value of is_admin.'
+                    ' This key is deprecated. Please update your policy '
+                    'file to use the standard policy values.')
+
+        self.addCleanup(warnings.resetwarnings)
diff --git a/glance/tests/unit/test_glance_replicator.py b/glance/tests/unit/test_glance_replicator.py
index 3e39b5fb55..8776e9fe1b 100644
--- a/glance/tests/unit/test_glance_replicator.py
+++ b/glance/tests/unit/test_glance_replicator.py
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
 #    License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
 #    under the License.
 
+from __future__ import absolute_import
+
 import copy
 import os
 import sys
diff --git a/glance/tests/unit/test_image_cache.py b/glance/tests/unit/test_image_cache.py
index 89d86f5f16..f77e9ae5a2 100644
--- a/glance/tests/unit/test_image_cache.py
+++ b/glance/tests/unit/test_image_cache.py
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@
 #    License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
 #    under the License.
 
+from __future__ import absolute_import
+
 from contextlib import contextmanager
 import datetime
 import hashlib
diff --git a/glance/tests/unit/test_manage.py b/glance/tests/unit/test_manage.py
index 80b0c670ae..6924f704cb 100644
--- a/glance/tests/unit/test_manage.py
+++ b/glance/tests/unit/test_manage.py
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@
 #    License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
 #    under the License.
 
+from __future__ import absolute_import
+
 import fixtures
 import mock
 
diff --git a/glance/tests/utils.py b/glance/tests/utils.py
index 19899c2f20..41a455b38b 100644
--- a/glance/tests/utils.py
+++ b/glance/tests/utils.py
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ from glance.db import migration as db_migration
 from glance.db.sqlalchemy import alembic_migrations
 from glance.db.sqlalchemy import api as db_api
 from glance.db.sqlalchemy import models as db_models
+from glance.tests.unit import fixtures as glance_fixtures
 
 CONF = cfg.CONF
 try:
@@ -84,6 +85,9 @@ class BaseTestCase(testtools.TestCase):
         utils.safe_mkdirs(self.conf_dir)
         self.set_policy()
 
+        # Limit the amount of DeprecationWarning messages in the unit test logs
+        self.useFixture(glance_fixtures.WarningsFixture())
+
     def set_policy(self):
         conf_file = "policy.json"
         self.policy_file = self._copy_data_file(conf_file, self.conf_dir)