diff --git a/WindowsAgent/.gitignore b/WindowsAgent/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b7a56aed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/WindowsAgent/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+## Ignore Visual Studio temporary files, build results, and
+## files generated by popular Visual Studio add-ons.
+# User-specific files
+*.suo
+*.user
+
+# Build results
+[Dd]ebug/
+[Rr]elease/
+x64/
+build/
+[Bb]in/
+[Oo]bj/
+
+# ReSharper is a .NET coding add-in
+_ReSharper*/
+*.[Rr]e[Ss]harper
diff --git a/portas/.gitignore b/portas/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..61331307
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#IntelJ Idea
+.idea/
+
+#virtualenv
+.venv/
+
+#Build results
+build/
+dist/
+*.egg-info/
+
+#Python
+*.pyc
+
+#Translation build
+*.mo
+*.pot
+
+#SQLite Database files
+*.sqlite
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/portas/babel.cfg b/portas/babel.cfg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..efceab81
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/babel.cfg
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+[python: **.py]
diff --git a/portas/bin/portas-api b/portas/bin/portas-api
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..bcf7b312
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/bin/portas-api
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# vim: tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4
+
+# Copyright 2011 OpenStack LLC.
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    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.
+import gettext
+import os
+import sys
+
+# If ../portas/__init__.py exists, add ../ to Python search path, so that
+# it will override what happens to be installed in /usr/(local/)lib/python...
+from portas.common.service import TaskResultHandlerService
+
+possible_topdir = os.path.normpath(os.path.join(os.path.abspath(sys.argv[0]),
+                                                os.pardir,
+                                                os.pardir))
+if os.path.exists(os.path.join(possible_topdir, 'portas', '__init__.py')):
+    sys.path.insert(0, possible_topdir)
+
+from portas.common import config
+from portas.openstack.common import log
+from portas.openstack.common import wsgi
+from portas.openstack.common import service
+
+gettext.install('portas', './portas/locale', unicode=1)
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    try:
+        config.parse_args()
+        log.setup('portas')
+
+        launcher = service.ServiceLauncher()
+
+        api_service = wsgi.Service(config.load_paste_app(),
+                                   port=config.CONF.bind_port,
+                                   host=config.CONF.bind_host)
+
+        launcher.launch_service(api_service)
+        launcher.launch_service(TaskResultHandlerService())
+        launcher.wait()
+    except RuntimeError, e:
+        sys.stderr.write("ERROR: %s\n" % e)
+        sys.exit(1)
diff --git a/portas/doc/source/_static/basic.css b/portas/doc/source/_static/basic.css
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d909ce37
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/doc/source/_static/basic.css
@@ -0,0 +1,416 @@
+/**
+ * Sphinx stylesheet -- basic theme
+ * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ */
+
+/* -- main layout ----------------------------------------------------------- */
+
+div.clearer {
+    clear: both;
+}
+
+/* -- relbar ---------------------------------------------------------------- */
+
+div.related {
+    width: 100%;
+    font-size: 90%;
+}
+
+div.related h3 {
+    display: none;
+}
+
+div.related ul {
+    margin: 0;
+    padding: 0 0 0 10px;
+    list-style: none;
+}
+
+div.related li {
+    display: inline;
+}
+
+div.related li.right {
+    float: right;
+    margin-right: 5px;
+}
+
+/* -- sidebar --------------------------------------------------------------- */
+
+div.sphinxsidebarwrapper {
+    padding: 10px 5px 0 10px;
+}
+
+div.sphinxsidebar {
+    float: left;
+    width: 230px;
+    margin-left: -100%;
+    font-size: 90%;
+}
+
+div.sphinxsidebar ul {
+    list-style: none;
+}
+
+div.sphinxsidebar ul ul,
+div.sphinxsidebar ul.want-points {
+    margin-left: 20px;
+    list-style: square;
+}
+
+div.sphinxsidebar ul ul {
+    margin-top: 0;
+    margin-bottom: 0;
+}
+
+div.sphinxsidebar form {
+    margin-top: 10px;
+}
+
+div.sphinxsidebar input {
+    border: 1px solid #98dbcc;
+    font-family: sans-serif;
+    font-size: 1em;
+}
+
+img {
+    border: 0;
+}
+
+/* -- search page ----------------------------------------------------------- */
+
+ul.search {
+    margin: 10px 0 0 20px;
+    padding: 0;
+}
+
+ul.search li {
+    padding: 5px 0 5px 20px;
+    background-image: url(file.png);
+    background-repeat: no-repeat;
+    background-position: 0 7px;
+}
+
+ul.search li a {
+    font-weight: bold;
+}
+
+ul.search li div.context {
+    color: #888;
+    margin: 2px 0 0 30px;
+    text-align: left;
+}
+
+ul.keywordmatches li.goodmatch a {
+    font-weight: bold;
+}
+
+/* -- index page ------------------------------------------------------------ */
+
+table.contentstable {
+    width: 90%;
+}
+
+table.contentstable p.biglink {
+    line-height: 150%;
+}
+
+a.biglink {
+    font-size: 1.3em;
+}
+
+span.linkdescr {
+    font-style: italic;
+    padding-top: 5px;
+    font-size: 90%;
+}
+
+/* -- general index --------------------------------------------------------- */
+
+table.indextable td {
+    text-align: left;
+    vertical-align: top;
+}
+
+table.indextable dl, table.indextable dd {
+    margin-top: 0;
+    margin-bottom: 0;
+}
+
+table.indextable tr.pcap {
+    height: 10px;
+}
+
+table.indextable tr.cap {
+    margin-top: 10px;
+    background-color: #f2f2f2;
+}
+
+img.toggler {
+    margin-right: 3px;
+    margin-top: 3px;
+    cursor: pointer;
+}
+
+/* -- general body styles --------------------------------------------------- */
+
+a.headerlink {
+    visibility: hidden;
+}
+
+h1:hover > a.headerlink,
+h2:hover > a.headerlink,
+h3:hover > a.headerlink,
+h4:hover > a.headerlink,
+h5:hover > a.headerlink,
+h6:hover > a.headerlink,
+dt:hover > a.headerlink {
+    visibility: visible;
+}
+
+div.body p.caption {
+    text-align: inherit;
+}
+
+div.body td {
+    text-align: left;
+}
+
+.field-list ul {
+    padding-left: 1em;
+}
+
+.first {
+}
+
+p.rubric {
+    margin-top: 30px;
+    font-weight: bold;
+}
+
+/* -- sidebars -------------------------------------------------------------- */
+
+div.sidebar {
+    margin: 0 0 0.5em 1em;
+    border: 1px solid #ddb;
+    padding: 7px 7px 0 7px;
+    background-color: #ffe;
+    width: 40%;
+    float: right;
+}
+
+p.sidebar-title {
+    font-weight: bold;
+}
+
+/* -- topics ---------------------------------------------------------------- */
+
+div.topic {
+    border: 1px solid #ccc;
+    padding: 7px 7px 0 7px;
+    margin: 10px 0 10px 0;
+}
+
+p.topic-title {
+    font-size: 1.1em;
+    font-weight: bold;
+    margin-top: 10px;
+}
+
+/* -- admonitions ----------------------------------------------------------- */
+
+div.admonition {
+    margin-top: 10px;
+    margin-bottom: 10px;
+    padding: 7px;
+}
+
+div.admonition dt {
+    font-weight: bold;
+}
+
+div.admonition dl {
+    margin-bottom: 0;
+}
+
+p.admonition-title {
+    margin: 0px 10px 5px 0px;
+    font-weight: bold;
+}
+
+div.body p.centered {
+    text-align: center;
+    margin-top: 25px;
+}
+
+/* -- tables ---------------------------------------------------------------- */
+
+table.docutils {
+    border: 0;
+    border-collapse: collapse;
+}
+
+table.docutils td, table.docutils th {
+    padding: 1px 8px 1px 0;
+    border-top: 0;
+    border-left: 0;
+    border-right: 0;
+    border-bottom: 1px solid #aaa;
+}
+
+table.field-list td, table.field-list th {
+    border: 0 !important;
+}
+
+table.footnote td, table.footnote th {
+    border: 0 !important;
+}
+
+th {
+    text-align: left;
+    padding-right: 5px;
+}
+
+/* -- other body styles ----------------------------------------------------- */
+
+dl {
+    margin-bottom: 15px;
+}
+
+dd p {
+    margin-top: 0px;
+}
+
+dd ul, dd table {
+    margin-bottom: 10px;
+}
+
+dd {
+    margin-top: 3px;
+    margin-bottom: 10px;
+    margin-left: 30px;
+}
+
+dt:target, .highlight {
+    background-color: #fbe54e;
+}
+
+dl.glossary dt {
+    font-weight: bold;
+    font-size: 1.1em;
+}
+
+.field-list ul {
+    margin: 0;
+    padding-left: 1em;
+}
+
+.field-list p {
+    margin: 0;
+}
+
+.refcount {
+    color: #060;
+}
+
+.optional {
+    font-size: 1.3em;
+}
+
+.versionmodified {
+    font-style: italic;
+}
+
+.system-message {
+    background-color: #fda;
+    padding: 5px;
+    border: 3px solid red;
+}
+
+.footnote:target  {
+    background-color: #ffa
+}
+
+.line-block {
+    display: block;
+    margin-top: 1em;
+    margin-bottom: 1em;
+}
+
+.line-block .line-block {
+    margin-top: 0;
+    margin-bottom: 0;
+    margin-left: 1.5em;
+}
+
+/* -- code displays --------------------------------------------------------- */
+
+pre {
+    overflow: auto;
+}
+
+td.linenos pre {
+    padding: 5px 0px;
+    border: 0;
+    background-color: transparent;
+    color: #aaa;
+}
+
+table.highlighttable {
+    margin-left: 0.5em;
+}
+
+table.highlighttable td {
+    padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em;
+}
+
+tt.descname {
+    background-color: transparent;
+    font-weight: bold;
+    font-size: 1.2em;
+}
+
+tt.descclassname {
+    background-color: transparent;
+}
+
+tt.xref, a tt {
+    background-color: transparent;
+    font-weight: bold;
+}
+
+h1 tt, h2 tt, h3 tt, h4 tt, h5 tt, h6 tt {
+    background-color: transparent;
+}
+
+/* -- math display ---------------------------------------------------------- */
+
+img.math {
+    vertical-align: middle;
+}
+
+div.body div.math p {
+    text-align: center;
+}
+
+span.eqno {
+    float: right;
+}
+
+/* -- printout stylesheet --------------------------------------------------- */
+
+@media print {
+    div.document,
+    div.documentwrapper,
+    div.bodywrapper {
+        margin: 0 !important;
+        width: 100%;
+    }
+
+    div.sphinxsidebar,
+    div.related,
+    div.footer,
+    #top-link {
+        display: none;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/portas/doc/source/_static/default.css b/portas/doc/source/_static/default.css
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c8091ecb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/doc/source/_static/default.css
@@ -0,0 +1,230 @@
+/**
+ * Sphinx stylesheet -- default theme
+ * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ */
+
+@import url("basic.css");
+
+/* -- page layout ----------------------------------------------------------- */
+
+body {
+    font-family: sans-serif;
+    font-size: 100%;
+    background-color: #11303d;
+    color: #000;
+    margin: 0;
+    padding: 0;
+}
+
+div.document {
+    background-color: #1c4e63;
+}
+
+div.documentwrapper {
+    float: left;
+    width: 100%;
+}
+
+div.bodywrapper {
+    margin: 0 0 0 230px;
+}
+
+div.body {
+    background-color: #ffffff;
+    color: #000000;
+    padding: 0 20px 30px 20px;
+}
+
+div.footer {
+    color: #ffffff;
+    width: 100%;
+    padding: 9px 0 9px 0;
+    text-align: center;
+    font-size: 75%;
+}
+
+div.footer a {
+    color: #ffffff;
+    text-decoration: underline;
+}
+
+div.related {
+    background-color: #133f52;
+    line-height: 30px;
+    color: #ffffff;
+}
+
+div.related a {
+    color: #ffffff;
+}
+
+div.sphinxsidebar {
+}
+
+div.sphinxsidebar h3 {
+    font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;
+    color: #ffffff;
+    font-size: 1.4em;
+    font-weight: normal;
+    margin: 0;
+    padding: 0;
+}
+
+div.sphinxsidebar h3 a {
+    color: #ffffff;
+}
+
+div.sphinxsidebar h4 {
+    font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;
+    color: #ffffff;
+    font-size: 1.3em;
+    font-weight: normal;
+    margin: 5px 0 0 0;
+    padding: 0;
+}
+
+div.sphinxsidebar p {
+    color: #ffffff;
+}
+
+div.sphinxsidebar p.topless {
+    margin: 5px 10px 10px 10px;
+}
+
+div.sphinxsidebar ul {
+    margin: 10px;
+    padding: 0;
+    color: #ffffff;
+}
+
+div.sphinxsidebar a {
+    color: #98dbcc;
+}
+
+div.sphinxsidebar input {
+    border: 1px solid #98dbcc;
+    font-family: sans-serif;
+    font-size: 1em;
+}
+
+/* -- body styles ----------------------------------------------------------- */
+
+a {
+    color: #355f7c;
+    text-decoration: none;
+}
+
+a:hover {
+    text-decoration: underline;
+}
+
+div.body p, div.body dd, div.body li {
+    text-align: left;
+    line-height: 130%;
+}
+
+div.body h1,
+div.body h2,
+div.body h3,
+div.body h4,
+div.body h5,
+div.body h6 {
+    font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;
+    background-color: #f2f2f2;
+    font-weight: normal;
+    color: #20435c;
+    border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;
+    margin: 20px -20px 10px -20px;
+    padding: 3px 0 3px 10px;
+}
+
+div.body h1 { margin-top: 0; font-size: 200%; }
+div.body h2 { font-size: 160%; }
+div.body h3 { font-size: 140%; }
+div.body h4 { font-size: 120%; }
+div.body h5 { font-size: 110%; }
+div.body h6 { font-size: 100%; }
+
+a.headerlink {
+    color: #c60f0f;
+    font-size: 0.8em;
+    padding: 0 4px 0 4px;
+    text-decoration: none;
+}
+
+a.headerlink:hover {
+    background-color: #c60f0f;
+    color: white;
+}
+
+div.body p, div.body dd, div.body li {
+    text-align: left;
+    line-height: 130%;
+}
+
+div.admonition p.admonition-title + p {
+    display: inline;
+}
+
+div.admonition p {
+    margin-bottom: 5px;
+}
+
+div.admonition pre {
+    margin-bottom: 5px;
+}
+
+div.admonition ul, div.admonition ol {
+    margin-bottom: 5px;
+}
+
+div.note {
+    background-color: #eee;
+    border: 1px solid #ccc;
+}
+
+div.seealso {
+    background-color: #ffc;
+    border: 1px solid #ff6;
+}
+
+div.topic {
+    background-color: #eee;
+}
+
+div.warning {
+    background-color: #ffe4e4;
+    border: 1px solid #f66;
+}
+
+p.admonition-title {
+    display: inline;
+}
+
+p.admonition-title:after {
+    content: ":";
+}
+
+pre {
+    padding: 5px;
+    background-color: #eeffcc;
+    color: #333333;
+    line-height: 120%;
+    border: 1px solid #ac9;
+    border-left: none;
+    border-right: none;
+}
+
+tt {
+    background-color: #ecf0f3;
+    padding: 0 1px 0 1px;
+    font-size: 0.95em;
+}
+
+.warning tt {
+    background: #efc2c2;
+}
+
+.note tt {
+    background: #d6d6d6;
+}
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diff --git a/portas/doc/source/_static/jquery.tweet.js b/portas/doc/source/_static/jquery.tweet.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..79bf0bdb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/doc/source/_static/jquery.tweet.js
@@ -0,0 +1,154 @@
+(function($) {
+
+  $.fn.tweet = function(o){
+    var s = {
+      username: ["seaofclouds"],              // [string]   required, unless you want to display our tweets. :) it can be an array, just do ["username1","username2","etc"]
+      list: null,                              //[string]   optional name of list belonging to username
+      avatar_size: null,                      // [integer]  height and width of avatar if displayed (48px max)
+      count: 3,                               // [integer]  how many tweets to display?
+      intro_text: null,                       // [string]   do you want text BEFORE your your tweets?
+      outro_text: null,                       // [string]   do you want text AFTER your tweets?
+      join_text:  null,                       // [string]   optional text in between date and tweet, try setting to "auto"
+      auto_join_text_default: "i said,",      // [string]   auto text for non verb: "i said" bullocks
+      auto_join_text_ed: "i",                 // [string]   auto text for past tense: "i" surfed
+      auto_join_text_ing: "i am",             // [string]   auto tense for present tense: "i was" surfing
+      auto_join_text_reply: "i replied to",   // [string]   auto tense for replies: "i replied to" @someone "with"
+      auto_join_text_url: "i was looking at", // [string]   auto tense for urls: "i was looking at" http:...
+      loading_text: null,                     // [string]   optional loading text, displayed while tweets load
+      query: null                             // [string]   optional search query
+    };
+
+    if(o) $.extend(s, o);
+
+    $.fn.extend({
+      linkUrl: function() {
+        var returning = [];
+        var regexp = /((ftp|http|https):\/\/(\w+:{0,1}\w*@)?(\S+)(:[0-9]+)?(\/|\/([\w#!:.?+=&%@!\-\/]))?)/gi;
+        this.each(function() {
+          returning.push(this.replace(regexp,"<a href=\"$1\">$1</a>"));
+        });
+        return $(returning);
+      },
+      linkUser: function() {
+        var returning = [];
+        var regexp = /[\@]+([A-Za-z0-9-_]+)/gi;
+        this.each(function() {
+          returning.push(this.replace(regexp,"<a href=\"http://twitter.com/$1\">@$1</a>"));
+        });
+        return $(returning);
+      },
+      linkHash: function() {
+        var returning = [];
+        var regexp = / [\#]+([A-Za-z0-9-_]+)/gi;
+        this.each(function() {
+          returning.push(this.replace(regexp, ' <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=&tag=$1&lang=all&from='+s.username.join("%2BOR%2B")+'">#$1</a>'));
+        });
+        return $(returning);
+      },
+      capAwesome: function() {
+        var returning = [];
+        this.each(function() {
+          returning.push(this.replace(/\b(awesome)\b/gi, '<span class="awesome">$1</span>'));
+        });
+        return $(returning);
+      },
+      capEpic: function() {
+        var returning = [];
+        this.each(function() {
+          returning.push(this.replace(/\b(epic)\b/gi, '<span class="epic">$1</span>'));
+        });
+        return $(returning);
+      },
+      makeHeart: function() {
+        var returning = [];
+        this.each(function() {
+          returning.push(this.replace(/(&lt;)+[3]/gi, "<tt class='heart'>&#x2665;</tt>"));
+        });
+        return $(returning);
+      }
+    });
+
+    function relative_time(time_value) {
+      var parsed_date = Date.parse(time_value);
+      var relative_to = (arguments.length > 1) ? arguments[1] : new Date();
+      var delta = parseInt((relative_to.getTime() - parsed_date) / 1000);
+      var pluralize = function (singular, n) {
+        return '' + n + ' ' + singular + (n == 1 ? '' : 's');
+      };
+      if(delta < 60) {
+      return 'less than a minute ago';
+      } else if(delta < (45*60)) {
+      return 'about ' + pluralize("minute", parseInt(delta / 60)) + ' ago';
+      } else if(delta < (24*60*60)) {
+      return 'about ' + pluralize("hour", parseInt(delta / 3600)) + ' ago';
+      } else {
+      return 'about ' + pluralize("day", parseInt(delta / 86400)) + ' ago';
+      }
+    }
+
+    function build_url() {
+      var proto = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https:' : 'http:');
+      if (s.list) {
+        return proto+"//api.twitter.com/1/"+s.username[0]+"/lists/"+s.list+"/statuses.json?per_page="+s.count+"&callback=?";
+      } else if (s.query == null && s.username.length == 1) {
+        return proto+'//twitter.com/status/user_timeline/'+s.username[0]+'.json?count='+s.count+'&callback=?';
+      } else {
+        var query = (s.query || 'from:'+s.username.join('%20OR%20from:'));
+        return proto+'//search.twitter.com/search.json?&q='+query+'&rpp='+s.count+'&callback=?';
+      }
+    }
+
+    return this.each(function(){
+      var list = $('<ul class="tweet_list">').appendTo(this);
+      var intro = '<p class="tweet_intro">'+s.intro_text+'</p>';
+      var outro = '<p class="tweet_outro">'+s.outro_text+'</p>';
+      var loading = $('<p class="loading">'+s.loading_text+'</p>');
+
+      if(typeof(s.username) == "string"){
+        s.username = [s.username];
+      }
+
+      if (s.loading_text) $(this).append(loading);
+      $.getJSON(build_url(), function(data){
+        if (s.loading_text) loading.remove();
+        if (s.intro_text) list.before(intro);
+        $.each((data.results || data), function(i,item){
+          // auto join text based on verb tense and content
+          if (s.join_text == "auto") {
+            if (item.text.match(/^(@([A-Za-z0-9-_]+)) .*/i)) {
+              var join_text = s.auto_join_text_reply;
+            } else if (item.text.match(/(^\w+:\/\/[A-Za-z0-9-_]+\.[A-Za-z0-9-_:%&\?\/.=]+) .*/i)) {
+              var join_text = s.auto_join_text_url;
+            } else if (item.text.match(/^((\w+ed)|just) .*/im)) {
+              var join_text = s.auto_join_text_ed;
+            } else if (item.text.match(/^(\w*ing) .*/i)) {
+              var join_text = s.auto_join_text_ing;
+            } else {
+              var join_text = s.auto_join_text_default;
+            }
+          } else {
+            var join_text = s.join_text;
+          };
+
+          var from_user = item.from_user || item.user.screen_name;
+          var profile_image_url = item.profile_image_url || item.user.profile_image_url;
+          var join_template = '<span class="tweet_join"> '+join_text+' </span>';
+          var join = ((s.join_text) ? join_template : ' ');
+          var avatar_template = '<a class="tweet_avatar" href="http://twitter.com/'+from_user+'"><img src="'+profile_image_url+'" height="'+s.avatar_size+'" width="'+s.avatar_size+'" alt="'+from_user+'\'s avatar" title="'+from_user+'\'s avatar" border="0"/></a>';
+          var avatar = (s.avatar_size ? avatar_template : '');
+          var date = '<a href="http://twitter.com/'+from_user+'/statuses/'+item.id+'" title="view tweet on twitter">'+relative_time(item.created_at)+'</a>';
+          var text = '<span class="tweet_text">' +$([item.text]).linkUrl().linkUser().linkHash().makeHeart().capAwesome().capEpic()[0]+ '</span>';
+
+          // until we create a template option, arrange the items below to alter a tweet's display.
+          list.append('<li>' + avatar + date + join + text + '</li>');
+
+          list.children('li:first').addClass('tweet_first');
+          list.children('li:odd').addClass('tweet_even');
+          list.children('li:even').addClass('tweet_odd');
+        });
+        if (s.outro_text) list.after(outro);
+      });
+
+    });
+  };
+})(jQuery);
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/portas/doc/source/_static/nature.css b/portas/doc/source/_static/nature.css
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index 00000000..a98bd420
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/doc/source/_static/nature.css
@@ -0,0 +1,245 @@
+/*
+ * nature.css_t
+ * ~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ *
+ * Sphinx stylesheet -- nature theme.
+ *
+ * :copyright: Copyright 2007-2011 by the Sphinx team, see AUTHORS.
+ * :license: BSD, see LICENSE for details.
+ *
+ */
+ 
+@import url("basic.css");
+ 
+/* -- page layout ----------------------------------------------------------- */
+ 
+body {
+    font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
+    font-size: 100%;
+    background-color: #111;
+    color: #555;
+    margin: 0;
+    padding: 0;
+}
+
+div.documentwrapper {
+    float: left;
+    width: 100%;
+}
+
+div.bodywrapper {
+    margin: 0 0 0 {{ theme_sidebarwidth|toint }}px;
+}
+
+hr {
+    border: 1px solid #B1B4B6;
+}
+ 
+div.document {
+    background-color: #eee;
+}
+ 
+div.body {
+    background-color: #ffffff;
+    color: #3E4349;
+    padding: 0 30px 30px 30px;
+    font-size: 0.9em;
+}
+ 
+div.footer {
+    color: #555;
+    width: 100%;
+    padding: 13px 0;
+    text-align: center;
+    font-size: 75%;
+}
+ 
+div.footer a {
+    color: #444;
+    text-decoration: underline;
+}
+ 
+div.related {
+    background-color: #6BA81E;
+    line-height: 32px;
+    color: #fff;
+    text-shadow: 0px 1px 0 #444;
+    font-size: 0.9em;
+}
+ 
+div.related a {
+    color: #E2F3CC;
+}
+ 
+div.sphinxsidebar {
+    font-size: 0.75em;
+    line-height: 1.5em;
+}
+
+div.sphinxsidebarwrapper{
+    padding: 20px 0;
+}
+ 
+div.sphinxsidebar h3,
+div.sphinxsidebar h4 {
+    font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
+    color: #222;
+    font-size: 1.2em;
+    font-weight: normal;
+    margin: 0;
+    padding: 5px 10px;
+    background-color: #ddd;
+    text-shadow: 1px 1px 0 white
+}
+
+div.sphinxsidebar h4{
+    font-size: 1.1em;
+}
+ 
+div.sphinxsidebar h3 a {
+    color: #444;
+}
+ 
+ 
+div.sphinxsidebar p {
+    color: #888;
+    padding: 5px 20px;
+}
+ 
+div.sphinxsidebar p.topless {
+}
+ 
+div.sphinxsidebar ul {
+    margin: 10px 20px;
+    padding: 0;
+    color: #000;
+}
+ 
+div.sphinxsidebar a {
+    color: #444;
+}
+ 
+div.sphinxsidebar input {
+    border: 1px solid #ccc;
+    font-family: sans-serif;
+    font-size: 1em;
+}
+
+div.sphinxsidebar input[type=text]{
+    margin-left: 20px;
+}
+ 
+/* -- body styles ----------------------------------------------------------- */
+ 
+a {
+    color: #005B81;
+    text-decoration: none;
+}
+ 
+a:hover {
+    color: #E32E00;
+    text-decoration: underline;
+}
+ 
+div.body h1,
+div.body h2,
+div.body h3,
+div.body h4,
+div.body h5,
+div.body h6 {
+    font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
+    background-color: #BED4EB;
+    font-weight: normal;
+    color: #212224;
+    margin: 30px 0px 10px 0px;
+    padding: 5px 0 5px 10px;
+    text-shadow: 0px 1px 0 white
+}
+ 
+div.body h1 { border-top: 20px solid white; margin-top: 0; font-size: 200%; }
+div.body h2 { font-size: 150%; background-color: #C8D5E3; }
+div.body h3 { font-size: 120%; background-color: #D8DEE3; }
+div.body h4 { font-size: 110%; background-color: #D8DEE3; }
+div.body h5 { font-size: 100%; background-color: #D8DEE3; }
+div.body h6 { font-size: 100%; background-color: #D8DEE3; }
+ 
+a.headerlink {
+    color: #c60f0f;
+    font-size: 0.8em;
+    padding: 0 4px 0 4px;
+    text-decoration: none;
+}
+ 
+a.headerlink:hover {
+    background-color: #c60f0f;
+    color: white;
+}
+ 
+div.body p, div.body dd, div.body li {
+    line-height: 1.5em;
+}
+ 
+div.admonition p.admonition-title + p {
+    display: inline;
+}
+
+div.highlight{
+    background-color: white;
+}
+
+div.note {
+    background-color: #eee;
+    border: 1px solid #ccc;
+}
+ 
+div.seealso {
+    background-color: #ffc;
+    border: 1px solid #ff6;
+}
+ 
+div.topic {
+    background-color: #eee;
+}
+ 
+div.warning {
+    background-color: #ffe4e4;
+    border: 1px solid #f66;
+}
+ 
+p.admonition-title {
+    display: inline;
+}
+ 
+p.admonition-title:after {
+    content: ":";
+}
+ 
+pre {
+    padding: 10px;
+    background-color: White;
+    color: #222;
+    line-height: 1.2em;
+    border: 1px solid #C6C9CB;
+    font-size: 1.1em;
+    margin: 1.5em 0 1.5em 0;
+    -webkit-box-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #d8d8d8;
+    -moz-box-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #d8d8d8;
+}
+ 
+tt {
+    background-color: #ecf0f3;
+    color: #222;
+    /* padding: 1px 2px; */
+    font-size: 1.1em;
+    font-family: monospace;
+}
+
+.viewcode-back {
+    font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
+}
+
+div.viewcode-block:target {
+    background-color: #f4debf;
+    border-top: 1px solid #ac9;
+    border-bottom: 1px solid #ac9;
+}
diff --git a/portas/doc/source/_static/openstack_logo.png b/portas/doc/source/_static/openstack_logo.png
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index 00000000..146faec5
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diff --git a/portas/doc/source/_static/tweaks.css b/portas/doc/source/_static/tweaks.css
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3f3fb3f0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/doc/source/_static/tweaks.css
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+body {
+  background: #fff url(../_static/header_bg.jpg) top left no-repeat;
+}
+
+#header {
+  width: 950px;
+  margin: 0 auto;
+  height: 102px;
+}
+
+#header h1#logo {
+  background: url(../_static/openstack_logo.png) top left no-repeat;
+  display: block;
+  float: left;
+  text-indent: -9999px;
+  width: 175px;
+  height: 55px;
+}
+
+#navigation {
+  background: url(../_static/header-line.gif) repeat-x 0 bottom;
+  display: block;
+  float: left;
+  margin: 27px 0 0 25px;
+  padding: 0;
+}
+
+#navigation li{
+  float: left;
+  display: block;
+  margin-right: 25px;
+}
+
+#navigation li a {
+  display: block;
+  font-weight: normal;
+  text-decoration: none;
+  background-position: 50% 0;
+  padding: 20px 0 5px;
+  color: #353535;
+  font-size: 14px;
+}
+
+#navigation li a.current, #navigation li a.section {
+  border-bottom: 3px solid #cf2f19;
+  color: #cf2f19;
+}
+
+div.related {
+  background-color: #cde2f8;
+  border: 1px solid #b0d3f8;
+}
+
+div.related a {
+  color: #4078ba;
+  text-shadow: none;
+}
+
+div.sphinxsidebarwrapper {
+  padding-top: 0;
+}
+
+pre {
+  color: #555;
+}
+
+div.documentwrapper h1, div.documentwrapper h2, div.documentwrapper h3, div.documentwrapper h4, div.documentwrapper h5, div.documentwrapper h6 {
+  font-family: 'PT Sans', sans-serif !important;
+  color: #264D69;
+  border-bottom: 1px dotted #C5E2EA;
+  padding: 0;
+  background: none;
+  padding-bottom: 5px;
+}
+
+div.documentwrapper h3 {
+  color: #CF2F19;
+}
+
+a.headerlink {
+  color: #fff !important;
+  margin-left: 5px;
+  background: #CF2F19 !important;
+}
+
+div.body {
+  margin-top: -25px;
+  margin-left: 230px;
+}
+
+div.document {
+  width: 960px;
+  margin: 0 auto;
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/portas/doc/source/_templates/.placeholder b/portas/doc/source/_templates/.placeholder
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b
diff --git a/portas/doc/source/_theme/layout.html b/portas/doc/source/_theme/layout.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..750b7822
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/doc/source/_theme/layout.html
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+{% extends "basic/layout.html" %}
+{% set css_files = css_files + ['_static/tweaks.css'] %}
+{% set script_files = script_files + ['_static/jquery.tweet.js'] %}
+
+{%- macro sidebar() %}
+      {%- if not embedded %}{% if not theme_nosidebar|tobool %}
+      <div class="sphinxsidebar">
+        <div class="sphinxsidebarwrapper">
+          {%- block sidebarlogo %}
+          {%- if logo %}
+            <p class="logo"><a href="{{ pathto(master_doc) }}">
+              <img class="logo" src="{{ pathto('_static/' + logo, 1) }}" alt="Logo"/>
+            </a></p>
+          {%- endif %}
+          {%- endblock %}
+          {%- block sidebartoc %}
+          {%- if display_toc %}
+            <h3><a href="{{ pathto(master_doc) }}">{{ _('Table Of Contents') }}</a></h3>
+            {{ toc }}
+          {%- endif %}
+          {%- endblock %}
+          {%- block sidebarrel %}
+          {%- if prev %}
+            <h4>{{ _('Previous topic') }}</h4>
+            <p class="topless"><a href="{{ prev.link|e }}"
+                                  title="{{ _('previous chapter') }}">{{ prev.title }}</a></p>
+          {%- endif %}
+          {%- if next %}
+            <h4>{{ _('Next topic') }}</h4>
+            <p class="topless"><a href="{{ next.link|e }}"
+                                  title="{{ _('next chapter') }}">{{ next.title }}</a></p>
+          {%- endif %}
+          {%- endblock %}
+          {%- block sidebarsourcelink %}
+          {%- if show_source and has_source and sourcename %}
+            <h3>{{ _('This Page') }}</h3>
+            <ul class="this-page-menu">
+              <li><a href="{{ pathto('_sources/' + sourcename, true)|e }}"
+                     rel="nofollow">{{ _('Show Source') }}</a></li>
+            </ul>
+          {%- endif %}
+          {%- endblock %}
+          {%- if customsidebar %}
+          {% include customsidebar %}
+          {%- endif %}
+          {%- block sidebarsearch %}
+          {%- if pagename != "search" %}
+          <div id="searchbox" style="display: none">
+            <h3>{{ _('Quick search') }}</h3>
+              <form class="search" action="{{ pathto('search') }}" method="get">
+                <input type="text" name="q" size="18" />
+                <input type="submit" value="{{ _('Go') }}" />
+                <input type="hidden" name="check_keywords" value="yes" />
+                <input type="hidden" name="area" value="default" />
+              </form>
+              <p class="searchtip" style="font-size: 90%">
+              {{ _('Enter search terms or a module, class or function name.') }}
+              </p>
+          </div>
+          <script type="text/javascript">$('#searchbox').show(0);</script>
+          {%- endif %}
+          {%- endblock %}
+        </div>
+      </div>
+      {%- endif %}{% endif %}
+{%- endmacro %}
+
+{% block relbar1 %}{% endblock relbar1 %}
+
+{% block header %}
+  <div id="header">
+    <h1 id="logo"><a href="http://www.openstack.org/">OpenStack</a></h1>
+    <ul id="navigation">
+      <li><a href="http://www.openstack.org/" title="Go to the Home page" class="link">Home</a></li>
+      <li><a href="http://www.openstack.org/projects/" title="Go to the OpenStack Projects page">Projects</a></li>
+      <li><a href="http://www.openstack.org/user-stories/" title="Go to the User Stories page" class="link">User Stories</a></li>
+      <li><a href="http://www.openstack.org/community/" title="Go to the Community page" class="link">Community</a></li>
+      <li><a href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/" title="Go to the OpenStack Blog">Blog</a></li>
+      <li><a href="http://wiki.openstack.org/" title="Go to the OpenStack Wiki">Wiki</a></li>
+      <li><a href="http://docs.openstack.org/" title="Go to OpenStack Documentation" class="current">Documentation</a></li>
+    </ul>
+  </div>
+{% endblock %}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/portas/doc/source/_theme/theme.conf b/portas/doc/source/_theme/theme.conf
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1cc40044
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/doc/source/_theme/theme.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+[theme]
+inherit = basic
+stylesheet = nature.css
+pygments_style = tango
diff --git a/portas/doc/source/conf.py b/portas/doc/source/conf.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f3f4cf53
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/doc/source/conf.py
@@ -0,0 +1,242 @@
+
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# Copyright (c) 2010 OpenStack Foundation.
+#
+# 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.
+
+#
+# Portas documentation build configuration file, created by
+# sphinx-quickstart on Tue February 28 13:50:15 2013.
+#
+# This file is execfile()'d with the current directory set to its containing
+# dir.
+#
+# Note that not all possible configuration values are present in this
+# autogenerated file.
+#
+# All configuration values have a default; values that are commented out
+# serve to show the default.
+
+import os
+import sys
+
+# If extensions (or modules to document with autodoc) are in another directory,
+# add these directories to sys.path here. If the directory is relative to the
+# documentation root, use os.path.abspath to make it absolute, like shown here.
+sys.path = [os.path.abspath('../../portas'),
+    os.path.abspath('../..'),
+    os.path.abspath('../../bin')
+    ] + sys.path
+
+# -- General configuration ---------------------------------------------------
+
+# Add any Sphinx extension module names here, as strings. They can be
+# extensions coming with Sphinx (named 'sphinx.ext.*') or your custom ones.
+extensions = ['sphinx.ext.coverage',
+              'sphinx.ext.ifconfig',
+              'sphinx.ext.intersphinx',
+              'sphinx.ext.pngmath',
+              'sphinx.ext.graphviz']
+
+# Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.
+templates_path = []
+if os.getenv('HUDSON_PUBLISH_DOCS'):
+    templates_path = ['_ga', '_templates']
+else:
+    templates_path = ['_templates']
+
+# The suffix of source filenames.
+source_suffix = '.rst'
+
+# The encoding of source files.
+#source_encoding = 'utf-8'
+
+# The master toctree document.
+master_doc = 'index'
+
+# General information about the project.
+project = u'Portas'
+copyright = u'2013, Mirantis, Inc.'
+
+# The version info for the project you're documenting, acts as replacement for
+# |version| and |release|, also used in various other places throughout the
+# built documents.
+#
+# The short X.Y version.
+from portas.version import version_info as portas_version
+# The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
+release = portas_version.version_string_with_vcs()
+# The short X.Y version.
+version = portas_version.canonical_version_string()
+
+# The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
+# for a list of supported languages.
+#language = None
+
+# There are two options for replacing |today|: either, you set today to some
+# non-false value, then it is used:
+#today = ''
+# Else, today_fmt is used as the format for a strftime call.
+#today_fmt = '%B %d, %Y'
+
+# List of documents that shouldn't be included in the build.
+#unused_docs = []
+
+# List of directories, relative to source directory, that shouldn't be searched
+# for source files.
+exclude_trees = ['api']
+
+# The reST default role (for this markup: `text`) to use for all documents.
+#default_role = None
+
+# If true, '()' will be appended to :func: etc. cross-reference text.
+#add_function_parentheses = True
+
+# If true, the current module name will be prepended to all description
+# unit titles (such as .. function::).
+#add_module_names = True
+
+# If true, sectionauthor and moduleauthor directives will be shown in the
+# output. They are ignored by default.
+show_authors = True
+
+# The name of the Pygments (syntax highlighting) style to use.
+pygments_style = 'sphinx'
+
+# A list of ignored prefixes for module index sorting.
+modindex_common_prefix = ['portas.']
+
+# -- Options for man page output --------------------------------------------
+
+# Grouping the document tree for man pages.
+# List of tuples 'sourcefile', 'target', u'title', u'Authors name', 'manual'
+
+man_pages = [
+    ('man/portasapi', 'portas-api', u'Portas API Server',
+     [u'OpenStack'], 1)
+]
+
+
+# -- Options for HTML output -------------------------------------------------
+
+# The theme to use for HTML and HTML Help pages.  Major themes that come with
+# Sphinx are currently 'default' and 'sphinxdoc'.
+html_theme_path = ["."]
+html_theme = '_theme'
+
+# Theme options are theme-specific and customize the look and feel of a theme
+# further.  For a list of options available for each theme, see the
+# documentation.
+#html_theme_options = {}
+
+# Add any paths that contain custom themes here, relative to this directory.
+#html_theme_path = ['_theme']
+
+# The name for this set of Sphinx documents.  If None, it defaults to
+# "<project> v<release> documentation".
+#html_title = None
+
+# A shorter title for the navigation bar.  Default is the same as html_title.
+#html_short_title = None
+
+# The name of an image file (relative to this directory) to place at the top
+# of the sidebar.
+#html_logo = None
+
+# The name of an image file (within the static path) to use as favicon of the
+# docs.  This file should be a Windows icon file (.ico) being 16x16 or 32x32
+# pixels large.
+#html_favicon = None
+
+# Add any paths that contain custom static files (such as style sheets) here,
+# relative to this directory. They are copied after the builtin static files,
+# so a file named "default.css" will overwrite the builtin "default.css".
+html_static_path = ['_static']
+
+# If not '', a 'Last updated on:' timestamp is inserted at every page bottom,
+# using the given strftime format.
+#html_last_updated_fmt = '%b %d, %Y'
+git_cmd = "git log --pretty=format:'%ad, commit %h' --date=local -n1"
+html_last_updated_fmt = os.popen(git_cmd).read()
+
+# If true, SmartyPants will be used to convert quotes and dashes to
+# typographically correct entities.
+#html_use_smartypants = True
+
+# Custom sidebar templates, maps document names to template names.
+#html_sidebars = {}
+
+# Additional templates that should be rendered to pages, maps page names to
+# template names.
+#html_additional_pages = {}
+
+# If false, no module index is generated.
+html_use_modindex = False
+
+# If false, no index is generated.
+html_use_index = False
+
+# If true, the index is split into individual pages for each letter.
+#html_split_index = False
+
+# If true, links to the reST sources are added to the pages.
+#html_show_sourcelink = True
+
+# If true, an OpenSearch description file will be output, and all pages will
+# contain a <link> tag referring to it.  The value of this option must be the
+# base URL from which the finished HTML is served.
+#html_use_opensearch = ''
+
+# If nonempty, this is the file name suffix for HTML files (e.g. ".xhtml").
+#html_file_suffix = ''
+
+# Output file base name for HTML help builder.
+htmlhelp_basename = 'portasdoc'
+
+
+# -- Options for LaTeX output ------------------------------------------------
+
+# The paper size ('letter' or 'a4').
+#latex_paper_size = 'letter'
+
+# The font size ('10pt', '11pt' or '12pt').
+#latex_font_size = '10pt'
+
+# Grouping the document tree into LaTeX files. List of tuples
+# (source start file, target name, title, author,
+# documentclass [howto/manual]).
+latex_documents = [
+    ('index', 'Portas.tex', u'Portas Documentation',
+     u'Keero Team', 'manual'),
+]
+
+# The name of an image file (relative to this directory) to place at the top of
+# the title page.
+#latex_logo = None
+
+# For "manual" documents, if this is true, then toplevel headings are parts,
+# not chapters.
+#latex_use_parts = False
+
+# Additional stuff for the LaTeX preamble.
+#latex_preamble = ''
+
+# Documents to append as an appendix to all manuals.
+#latex_appendices = []
+
+# If false, no module index is generated.
+#latex_use_modindex = True
+
+# Example configuration for intersphinx: refer to the Python standard library.
+intersphinx_mapping = {'python': ('http://docs.python.org/', None)}
diff --git a/portas/doc/source/index.rst b/portas/doc/source/index.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..cff04f37
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/doc/source/index.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+..
+      Copyright 2010 OpenStack Foundation
+      All Rights Reserved.
+
+      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.
+
+Welcome to Portas's documentation!
+==================================
+
+We rule the world!
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/portas/etc/portas-api-paste.ini b/portas/etc/portas-api-paste.ini
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3bb45916
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/etc/portas-api-paste.ini
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+[pipeline:portas-api]
+pipeline = authtoken context apiv1app
+
+[app:apiv1app]
+paste.app_factory = portas.api.v1.router:API.factory
+
+[filter:context]
+paste.filter_factory = portas.api.middleware.context:ContextMiddleware.factory
+
+[filter:authtoken]
+paste.filter_factory = keystoneclient.middleware.auth_token:filter_factory
+auth_host = 172.18.79.73
+auth_port = 35357
+auth_protocol = http
+admin_tenant_name = admin
+admin_user = admin
+admin_password = swordfish
+signing_dir = /tmp/keystone-signing-portas
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/portas/etc/portas-api.conf b/portas/etc/portas-api.conf
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b572829f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/etc/portas-api.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+[DEFAULT]
+# Show more verbose log output (sets INFO log level output)
+verbose = True
+
+# Show debugging output in logs (sets DEBUG log level output)
+debug = True
+
+# Address to bind the server to
+bind_host = 0.0.0.0
+
+# Port the bind the server to
+bind_port = 8082
+
+# Log to this file. Make sure the user running skeleton-api has
+# permissions to write to this file!
+log_file = /tmp/portas-api.log
+
+#A valid SQLAlchemy connection string for the metadata database
+sql_connection = sqlite:///portas.sqlite
+
+[reports]
+results_exchange = task-results
+results_queue = task-results
+reports_exchange = task-reports
+reports_queue = task-reports
+
+[rabbitmq]
+host = localhost
+port = 5672
+use_ssl = false
+userid = guest
+password = guest
+virtual_host = /
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/portas/openstack-common.conf b/portas/openstack-common.conf
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6f1c5983
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/openstack-common.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+[DEFAULT]
+
+# The list of modules to copy from openstack-common
+modules=setup,wsgi,config,exception,gettextutils,importutils,jsonutils,log,xmlutils,sslutils,service,notifier,local,install_venv_common,version,timeutils,eventlet_backdoor,threadgroup,loopingcall,uuidutils
+
+# The base module to hold the copy of openstack.common
+base=portas
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/portas/portas/__init__.py b/portas/portas/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b
diff --git a/portas/portas/api/__init__.py b/portas/portas/api/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b
diff --git a/portas/portas/api/middleware/__init__.py b/portas/portas/api/middleware/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b
diff --git a/portas/portas/api/middleware/context.py b/portas/portas/api/middleware/context.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..cd0d6a7b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/api/middleware/context.py
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+# vim: tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4
+
+# Copyright 2011-2012 OpenStack LLC.
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    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.
+
+import json
+from oslo.config import cfg
+
+import webob.exc
+
+from portas.openstack.common import wsgi
+import portas.context
+import portas.openstack.common.log as logging
+
+CONF = cfg.CONF
+LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+class BaseContextMiddleware(wsgi.Middleware):
+    def process_response(self, resp):
+        try:
+            request_id = resp.request.context.request_id
+        except AttributeError:
+            LOG.warn(_('Unable to retrieve request id from context'))
+        else:
+            resp.headers['x-openstack-request-id'] = 'req-%s' % request_id
+        return resp
+
+
+class ContextMiddleware(BaseContextMiddleware):
+    def process_request(self, req):
+        """Convert authentication information into a request context
+
+        Generate a portas.context.RequestContext object from the available
+        authentication headers and store on the 'context' attribute
+        of the req object.
+
+        :param req: wsgi request object that will be given the context object
+        :raises webob.exc.HTTPUnauthorized: when value of the X-Identity-Status
+                                            header is not 'Confirmed' and
+                                            anonymous access is disallowed
+        """
+        if req.headers.get('X-Identity-Status') == 'Confirmed':
+            roles_header = req.headers.get('X-Roles', '')
+            roles = [r.strip().lower() for r in roles_header.split(',')]
+
+            #NOTE(bcwaldon): This header is deprecated in favor of X-Auth-Token
+            deprecated_token = req.headers.get('X-Storage-Token')
+
+            service_catalog = None
+            if req.headers.get('X-Service-Catalog') is not None:
+                try:
+                    catalog_header = req.headers.get('X-Service-Catalog')
+                    service_catalog = json.loads(catalog_header)
+                except ValueError:
+                    raise webob.exc.HTTPInternalServerError(
+                        _('Invalid service catalog json.'))
+
+            kwargs = {
+                'user': req.headers.get('X-User-Id'),
+                'tenant': req.headers.get('X-Tenant-Id'),
+                'roles': roles,
+                'auth_tok': req.headers.get('X-Auth-Token', deprecated_token),
+                'service_catalog': service_catalog,
+                'session': req.headers.get('X-Configuration-Session')
+                }
+            req.context = portas.context.RequestContext(**kwargs)
+        else:
+            raise webob.exc.HTTPUnauthorized()
+
+    @classmethod
+    def factory(cls, global_conf, **local_conf):
+        def filter(app):
+            return cls(app)
+        return filter
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/portas/portas/api/v1/__init__.py b/portas/portas/api/v1/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2cb29e74
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/api/v1/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+from portas.db.models import Session
+from portas.db.session import get_session
+
+
+def get_draft(session_id):
+    unit = get_session()
+    session = unit.query(Session).get(session_id)
+
+    return session.description
+
+
+def save_draft(session_id, draft):
+    unit = get_session()
+    session = unit.query(Session).get(session_id)
+
+    session.description = draft
+    session.save(unit)
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/portas/portas/api/v1/active_directories.py b/portas/portas/api/v1/active_directories.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..fdb7305b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/api/v1/active_directories.py
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+from portas import utils
+from portas.api.v1 import save_draft, get_draft
+from portas.common import uuidutils
+from portas.openstack.common import wsgi, timeutils
+from portas.openstack.common import log as logging
+
+log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+class Controller(object):
+    @utils.verify_session
+    def index(self, request, environment_id):
+        draft = get_draft(request.context.session)
+
+        if not draft.has_key('services'):
+            return dict()
+
+        if not draft['services'].has_key('activeDirectories'):
+            return dict()
+
+        return {'activeDirectories': draft['services']['activeDirectories']}
+
+    @utils.verify_session
+    def create(self, request, environment_id, body):
+        draft = get_draft(request.context.session)
+
+        active_directory = body.copy()
+        active_directory['id'] = uuidutils.generate_uuid()
+        active_directory['created'] = timeutils.utcnow
+        active_directory['updated'] = timeutils.utcnow
+
+        unit_count = 0
+        for unit in active_directory['units']:
+            unit_count += 1
+            unit['id'] = uuidutils.generate_uuid()
+            unit['name'] = 'dc-{0}'.format(unit_count)
+
+        draft = prepare_draft(draft)
+        draft['services']['activeDirectories'].append(active_directory)
+        save_draft(request.context.session, draft)
+
+        return active_directory
+
+    def delete(self, request, environment_id, active_directory_id):
+        draft = get_draft(request.context.session)
+        draft['services']['activeDirectories'] = [service for service in draft['services']['activeDirectories'] if
+                                                  service['id'] != active_directory_id]
+        save_draft(request.context.session, draft)
+
+
+def prepare_draft(draft):
+    if not draft.has_key('services'):
+        draft['services'] = {}
+
+    if not draft['services'].has_key('activeDirectories'):
+        draft['services']['activeDirectories'] = []
+
+    return draft
+
+
+def create_resource():
+    return wsgi.Resource(Controller())
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/portas/portas/api/v1/environments.py b/portas/portas/api/v1/environments.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..040aa105
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/api/v1/environments.py
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+from webob import exc
+from portas.db.session import get_session
+from portas.db.models import Environment
+from portas.openstack.common import wsgi
+from portas.openstack.common import log as logging
+
+
+log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+class Controller(object):
+    def index(self, request):
+        log.debug(_("Display list of environments"))
+
+        #Only environments from same tenant as users should be shown
+        filters = {'tenant_id': request.context.tenant}
+
+        session = get_session()
+        environments = session.query(Environment).filter_by(**filters)
+
+        return {"environments": [env.to_dict() for env in environments]}
+
+    def create(self, request, body):
+        #tagging environment by tenant_id for later checks
+        params = body.copy()
+        params['tenant_id'] = request.context.tenant
+
+        environment = Environment()
+        environment.update(params)
+
+        session = get_session()
+        with session.begin():
+            session.add(environment)
+
+        #saving environment as Json to itself
+        environment.update({"description": environment.to_dict()})
+        environment.save(session)
+
+        return environment.to_dict()
+
+    def show(self, request, environment_id):
+        session = get_session()
+        environment = session.query(Environment).get(environment_id)
+
+        if environment.tenant_id != request.context.tenant:
+            log.info('User is not authorized to access this tenant resources.')
+            raise exc.HTTPUnauthorized
+
+        return environment.to_dict()
+
+    def update(self, request, environment_id, body):
+        session = get_session()
+        environment = session.query(Environment).get(environment_id)
+
+        if environment.tenant_id != request.context.tenant:
+            log.info('User is not authorized to access this tenant resources.')
+            raise exc.HTTPUnauthorized
+
+        environment.update(body)
+        environment.save(session)
+
+        return environment.to_dict()
+
+    def delete(self, request, environment_id):
+        session = get_session()
+        environment = session.query(Environment).get(environment_id)
+
+        with session.begin():
+            session.delete(environment)
+
+        return None
+
+
+def create_resource():
+    return wsgi.Resource(Controller())
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/portas/portas/api/v1/router.py b/portas/portas/api/v1/router.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5a186014
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/api/v1/router.py
@@ -0,0 +1,103 @@
+# vim: tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4
+
+# Copyright 2011 OpenStack LLC.
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    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.
+import routes
+from portas.openstack.common import wsgi
+from portas.api.v1 import environments, sessions, active_directories, webservers
+
+
+class API(wsgi.Router):
+    @classmethod
+    def factory(cls, global_conf, **local_conf):
+        return cls(routes.Mapper())
+
+    def __init__(self, mapper):
+        environments_resource = environments.create_resource()
+        mapper.connect('/environments',
+                       controller=environments_resource,
+                       action='index',
+                       conditions={'method': ['GET']})
+        mapper.connect('/environments',
+                       controller=environments_resource,
+                       action='create',
+                       conditions={'method': ['POST']})
+        mapper.connect('/environments/{environment_id}',
+                       controller=environments_resource,
+                       action='update',
+                       conditions={'method': ['PUT']})
+        mapper.connect('/environments/{environment_id}',
+                       controller=environments_resource,
+                       action='show',
+                       conditions={'method': ['GET']})
+        mapper.connect('/environments/{environment_id}',
+                       controller=environments_resource,
+                       action='delete',
+                       conditions={'method': ['DELETE']})
+
+        sessions_resource = sessions.create_resource()
+        mapper.connect('/environments/{environment_id}/sessions',
+                       controller=sessions_resource,
+                       action='index',
+                       conditions={'method': ['GET']})
+        mapper.connect('/environments/{environment_id}/configure',
+                       controller=sessions_resource,
+                       action='configure',
+                       conditions={'method': ['POST']})
+        mapper.connect('/environments/{environment_id}/sessions/{session_id}',
+                       controller=sessions_resource,
+                       action='show',
+                       conditions={'method': ['GET']})
+        mapper.connect('/environments/{environment_id}/sessions/{session_id}',
+                       controller=sessions_resource,
+                       action='delete',
+                       conditions={'method': ['DELETE']})
+        mapper.connect('/environments/{environment_id}/sessions/{session_id}/reports',
+                       controller=sessions_resource,
+                       action='reports',
+                       conditions={'method': ['GET']})
+        mapper.connect('/environments/{environment_id}/sessions/{session_id}/deploy',
+                       controller=sessions_resource,
+                       action='deploy',
+                       conditions={'method': ['POST']})
+
+        activeDirectories_resource = active_directories.create_resource()
+        mapper.connect('/environments/{environment_id}/activeDirectories',
+                       controller=activeDirectories_resource,
+                       action='index',
+                       conditions={'method': ['GET']})
+        mapper.connect('/environments/{environment_id}/activeDirectories',
+                       controller=activeDirectories_resource,
+                       action='create',
+                       conditions={'method': ['POST']})
+        mapper.connect('/environments/{environment_id}/activeDirectories/{active_directory_id}',
+                       controller=activeDirectories_resource,
+                       action='delete',
+                       conditions={'method': ['DELETE']})
+
+        webServers_resource = webservers.create_resource()
+        mapper.connect('/environments/{environment_id}/webServers',
+                       controller=webServers_resource,
+                       action='index',
+                       conditions={'method': ['GET']})
+        mapper.connect('/environments/{environment_id}/webServers',
+                       controller=webServers_resource,
+                       action='create',
+                       conditions={'method': ['POST']})
+        mapper.connect('/environments/{environment_id}/webServers/{web_server_id}',
+                       controller=webServers_resource,
+                       action='delete',
+                       conditions={'method': ['DELETE']})
+        super(API, self).__init__(mapper)
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/portas/portas/api/v1/sessions.py b/portas/portas/api/v1/sessions.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..77734a8a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/api/v1/sessions.py
@@ -0,0 +1,99 @@
+from amqplib.client_0_8 import Message
+import anyjson
+import eventlet
+from eventlet.semaphore import Semaphore
+from webob import exc
+from portas.common import config
+from portas.db.models import Session, Status, Environment
+from portas.db.session import get_session
+from portas.openstack.common import wsgi
+from portas.openstack.common import log as logging
+
+amqp = eventlet.patcher.import_patched('amqplib.client_0_8')
+rabbitmq = config.CONF.rabbitmq
+log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+class Controller(object):
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.write_lock = Semaphore(1)
+        connection = amqp.Connection(rabbitmq.host, virtual_host=rabbitmq.virtual_host,
+                                     userid=rabbitmq.userid, password=rabbitmq.password,
+                                     ssl=rabbitmq.use_ssl, insist=True)
+        self.ch = connection.channel()
+        self.ch.exchange_declare('tasks', 'direct', durable=True, auto_delete=False)
+
+    def index(self, request, environment_id):
+        filters = {'environment_id': environment_id, 'user_id': request.context.user}
+
+        unit = get_session()
+        configuration_sessions = unit.query(Session).filter_by(**filters)
+
+        return {"sessions": [session.to_dict() for session in configuration_sessions if
+                             session.environment.tenant_id == request.context.tenant]}
+
+    def configure(self, request, environment_id):
+        params = {'environment_id': environment_id, 'user_id': request.context.user, 'state': 'open'}
+
+        session = Session()
+        session.update(params)
+
+        unit = get_session()
+        if unit.query(Session).filter_by(**{'environment_id': environment_id, 'state': 'open'}).first():
+            log.info('There is already open session for this environment')
+            raise exc.HTTPConflict
+
+        #create draft for apply later changes
+        environment = unit.query(Environment).get(environment_id)
+        session.description = environment.description
+
+        with unit.begin():
+            unit.add(session)
+
+        return session.to_dict()
+
+    def show(self, request, environment_id, session_id):
+        unit = get_session()
+        session = unit.query(Session).get(session_id)
+
+        if session.environment.tenant_id != request.context.tenant:
+            log.info('User is not authorized to access this tenant resources.')
+            raise exc.HTTPUnauthorized
+
+        return session.to_dict()
+
+    def delete(self, request, environment_id, session_id):
+        unit = get_session()
+        session = unit.query(Session).get(session_id)
+
+        if session.state == 'deploying':
+            log.info('Session is in \'deploying\' state. Could not be deleted.')
+            raise exc.HTTPForbidden(comment='Session object in \'deploying\' state could not be deleted')
+
+        with unit.begin():
+            unit.delete(session)
+
+        return None
+
+    def reports(self, request, environment_id, session_id):
+        unit = get_session()
+        statuses = unit.query(Status).filter_by(session_id=session_id)
+
+        return {"reports": [status.to_dict() for status in statuses]}
+
+    def deploy(self, request, environment_id, session_id):
+        unit = get_session()
+        session = unit.query(Session).get(session_id)
+
+        if session.state != 'open':
+            log.warn(_('Could not deploy session. Session is already deployed or in deployment state'))
+
+        session.state = 'deploying'
+        session.save(unit)
+
+        with self.write_lock:
+            self.ch.basic_publish(Message(body=anyjson.serialize(session.description)), 'tasks', 'tasks')
+
+
+def create_resource():
+    return wsgi.Resource(Controller())
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/portas/portas/api/v1/webservers.py b/portas/portas/api/v1/webservers.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..427c8539
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/api/v1/webservers.py
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+from portas import utils
+from portas.api.v1 import save_draft, get_draft
+from portas.common import uuidutils
+from portas.openstack.common import wsgi, timeutils
+from portas.openstack.common import log as logging
+
+log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+class Controller(object):
+    @utils.verify_session
+    def index(self, request, environment_id):
+        draft = get_draft(request.context.session)
+
+        if not draft.has_key('services'):
+            return dict()
+
+        if not draft['services'].has_key('webServers'):
+            return dict()
+
+        return {'webServers': draft['services']['webServers']}
+
+    @utils.verify_session
+    def create(self, request, environment_id, body):
+        draft = get_draft(request.context.session)
+
+        webServer = body.copy()
+        webServer['id'] = uuidutils.generate_uuid()
+        webServer['created'] = timeutils.utcnow
+        webServer['updated'] = timeutils.utcnow
+
+        unit_count = 0
+        for unit in webServer['units']:
+            unit_count += 1
+            unit['id'] = uuidutils.generate_uuid()
+            unit['name'] = 'webserver-{0}'.format(unit_count)
+
+        draft = prepare_draft(draft)
+        draft['services']['webServers'].append(webServer)
+        save_draft(request.context.session, draft)
+
+        return webServer
+
+    @utils.verify_session
+    def delete(self, request, environment_id, web_server_id):
+        draft = get_draft(request.context.session)
+        draft['services']['webServers'] = [service for service in draft['services']['webServers'] if
+                                           service['id'] != web_server_id]
+        save_draft(request.context.session, draft)
+
+
+def prepare_draft(draft):
+    if not draft.has_key('services'):
+        draft['services'] = {}
+
+    if not draft['services'].has_key('webServers'):
+        draft['services']['webServers'] = []
+
+    return draft
+
+
+def create_resource():
+    return wsgi.Resource(Controller())
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/portas/portas/common/__init__.py b/portas/portas/common/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b
diff --git a/portas/portas/common/config.py b/portas/portas/common/config.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c0ea7d0d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/common/config.py
@@ -0,0 +1,203 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# vim: tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4
+
+# Copyright 2011 OpenStack LLC.
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    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.
+
+"""
+Routines for configuring Glance
+"""
+
+import logging
+import logging.config
+import logging.handlers
+import os
+import sys
+
+from oslo.config import cfg
+from paste import deploy
+
+from portas.version import version_info as version
+
+paste_deploy_opts = [
+    cfg.StrOpt('flavor'),
+    cfg.StrOpt('config_file'),
+]
+
+bind_opts = [
+    cfg.StrOpt('bind_host', default='localhost'),
+    cfg.IntOpt('bind_port'),
+]
+
+reports_opts = [
+    cfg.StrOpt('results_exchange', default='task-results'),
+    cfg.StrOpt('results_queue', default='task-results'),
+    cfg.StrOpt('reports_exchange', default='task-reports'),
+    cfg.StrOpt('reports_queue', default='task-reports')
+]
+
+rabbit_opts = [
+    cfg.StrOpt('host', default='localhost'),
+    cfg.IntOpt('port', default=5672),
+    cfg.BoolOpt('use_ssl', default=False),
+    cfg.StrOpt('userid', default='guest'),
+    cfg.StrOpt('password', default='guest'),
+    cfg.StrOpt('virtual_host', default='/'),
+]
+
+CONF = cfg.CONF
+CONF.register_opts(paste_deploy_opts, group='paste_deploy')
+CONF.register_opts(bind_opts)
+CONF.register_opts(reports_opts, group='reports')
+CONF.register_opts(rabbit_opts, group='rabbitmq')
+
+
+CONF.import_opt('verbose', 'portas.openstack.common.log')
+CONF.import_opt('debug', 'portas.openstack.common.log')
+CONF.import_opt('log_dir', 'portas.openstack.common.log')
+CONF.import_opt('log_file', 'portas.openstack.common.log')
+CONF.import_opt('log_config', 'portas.openstack.common.log')
+CONF.import_opt('log_format', 'portas.openstack.common.log')
+CONF.import_opt('log_date_format', 'portas.openstack.common.log')
+CONF.import_opt('use_syslog', 'portas.openstack.common.log')
+CONF.import_opt('syslog_log_facility', 'portas.openstack.common.log')
+
+
+def parse_args(args=None, usage=None, default_config_files=None):
+    CONF(args=args,
+         project='portas',
+         version=version.cached_version_string(),
+         usage=usage,
+         default_config_files=default_config_files)
+
+def setup_logging():
+    """
+    Sets up the logging options for a log with supplied name
+    """
+
+    if CONF.log_config:
+        # Use a logging configuration file for all settings...
+        if os.path.exists(CONF.log_config):
+            logging.config.fileConfig(CONF.log_config)
+            return
+        else:
+            raise RuntimeError("Unable to locate specified logging "
+                               "config file: %s" % CONF.log_config)
+
+    root_logger = logging.root
+    if CONF.debug:
+        root_logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
+    elif CONF.verbose:
+        root_logger.setLevel(logging.INFO)
+    else:
+        root_logger.setLevel(logging.WARNING)
+
+    formatter = logging.Formatter(CONF.log_format, CONF.log_date_format)
+
+    if CONF.use_syslog:
+        try:
+            facility = getattr(logging.handlers.SysLogHandler,
+                               CONF.syslog_log_facility)
+        except AttributeError:
+            raise ValueError(_("Invalid syslog facility"))
+
+        handler = logging.handlers.SysLogHandler(address='/dev/log',
+                                                 facility=facility)
+    elif CONF.log_file:
+        logfile = CONF.log_file
+        if CONF.log_dir:
+            logfile = os.path.join(CONF.log_dir, logfile)
+        handler = logging.handlers.WatchedFileHandler(logfile)
+    else:
+        handler = logging.StreamHandler(sys.stdout)
+
+    handler.setFormatter(formatter)
+    root_logger.addHandler(handler)
+
+
+def _get_deployment_flavor():
+    """
+    Retrieve the paste_deploy.flavor config item, formatted appropriately
+    for appending to the application name.
+    """
+    flavor = CONF.paste_deploy.flavor
+    return '' if not flavor else ('-' + flavor)
+
+
+def _get_paste_config_path():
+    paste_suffix = '-paste.ini'
+    conf_suffix = '.conf'
+    if CONF.config_file:
+        # Assume paste config is in a paste.ini file corresponding
+        # to the last config file
+        path = CONF.config_file[-1].replace(conf_suffix, paste_suffix)
+    else:
+        path = CONF.prog + '-paste.ini'
+    return CONF.find_file(os.path.basename(path))
+
+
+def _get_deployment_config_file():
+    """
+    Retrieve the deployment_config_file config item, formatted as an
+    absolute pathname.
+    """
+    path = CONF.paste_deploy.config_file
+    if not path:
+        path = _get_paste_config_path()
+    if not path:
+        msg = "Unable to locate paste config file for %s." % CONF.prog
+        raise RuntimeError(msg)
+    return os.path.abspath(path)
+
+
+def load_paste_app(app_name=None):
+    """
+    Builds and returns a WSGI app from a paste config file.
+
+    We assume the last config file specified in the supplied ConfigOpts
+    object is the paste config file.
+
+    :param app_name: name of the application to load
+
+    :raises RuntimeError when config file cannot be located or application
+            cannot be loaded from config file
+    """
+    if app_name is None:
+        app_name = CONF.prog
+
+    # append the deployment flavor to the application name,
+    # in order to identify the appropriate paste pipeline
+    app_name += _get_deployment_flavor()
+
+    conf_file = _get_deployment_config_file()
+
+    try:
+        logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+        logger.debug(_("Loading %(app_name)s from %(conf_file)s"),
+                     {'conf_file': conf_file, 'app_name': app_name})
+
+        app = deploy.loadapp("config:%s" % conf_file, name=app_name)
+
+        # Log the options used when starting if we're in debug mode...
+        if CONF.debug:
+            CONF.log_opt_values(logger, logging.DEBUG)
+
+        return app
+    except (LookupError, ImportError), e:
+        msg = _("Unable to load %(app_name)s from "
+                "configuration file %(conf_file)s."
+                "\nGot: %(e)r") % locals()
+        logger.error(msg)
+        raise RuntimeError(msg)
diff --git a/portas/portas/common/exception.py b/portas/portas/common/exception.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..59bb0ee0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/common/exception.py
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+# vim: tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4
+
+# Copyright 2010 United States Government as represented by the
+# Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    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.
+
+"""Portas exception subclasses"""
+
+_FATAL_EXCEPTION_FORMAT_ERRORS = False
+
+
+class PortasException(Exception):
+    """
+    Base Portas Exception
+
+    To correctly use this class, inherit from it and define
+    a 'message' property. That message will get printf'd
+    with the keyword arguments provided to the constructor.
+    """
+    message = _("An unknown exception occurred")
+
+    def __init__(self, message=None, *args, **kwargs):
+        if not message:
+            message = self.message
+        try:
+            message = message % kwargs
+        except Exception as e:
+            if _FATAL_EXCEPTION_FORMAT_ERRORS:
+                raise e
+            else:
+                # at least get the core message out if something happened
+                pass
+
+        super(PortasException, self).__init__(message)
+
+class SchemaLoadError(PortasException):
+    message = _("Unable to load schema: %(reason)s")
+
+
+class InvalidObject(PortasException):
+    message = _("Provided object does not match schema "
+                "'%(schema)s': %(reason)s")
+
+
diff --git a/portas/portas/common/service.py b/portas/portas/common/service.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b27774fd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/common/service.py
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+import anyjson
+from eventlet import patcher
+from portas.db.models import Status, Session, Environment
+from portas.db.session import get_session
+
+amqp = patcher.import_patched('amqplib.client_0_8')
+
+from portas.openstack.common import service
+from portas.openstack.common import log as logging
+from portas.common import config
+
+conf = config.CONF.reports
+rabbitmq = config.CONF.rabbitmq
+log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+channel = None
+
+
+class TaskResultHandlerService(service.Service):
+    def __init__(self, threads=1000):
+        super(TaskResultHandlerService, self).__init__(threads)
+
+    def start(self):
+        super(TaskResultHandlerService, self).start()
+        self.tg.add_thread(self._handle_results)
+
+    def stop(self):
+        super(TaskResultHandlerService, self).stop()
+
+    def _handle_results(self):
+        connection = amqp.Connection(rabbitmq.host, virtual_host=rabbitmq.virtual_host,
+                                     userid=rabbitmq.userid, password=rabbitmq.password,
+                                     ssl=rabbitmq.use_ssl, insist=True)
+        ch = connection.channel()
+
+        def bind(exchange, queue):
+            if not exchange:
+                ch.exchange_declare(exchange, 'direct', durable=True, auto_delete=False)
+            ch.queue_declare(queue)
+            if not exchange:
+                ch.queue_bind(queue, exchange, queue)
+
+        bind(conf.results_exchange, conf.results_queue)
+        bind(conf.reports_exchange, conf.reports_queue)
+
+        ch.basic_consume(conf.results_exchange, callback=handle_result)
+        ch.basic_consume(conf.reports_exchange, callback=handle_report)
+        while ch.callbacks:
+            ch.wait()
+
+
+def handle_report(msg):
+    log.debug(_('Got report message from orchestration engine:\n{0}'.format(msg.body)))
+
+    status = Status()
+    status.update(anyjson.deserialize(msg.body))
+
+    session = get_session()
+    #connect with session
+    conf_session = session.query(Session).filter_by(
+        **{'environment_id': status.environment_id, 'state': 'deploying'}).first()
+    status.session_id = conf_session.id
+
+    with session.begin():
+        session.add(status)
+
+    msg.channel.basic_ack(msg.delivery_tag)
+
+
+def handle_result(msg):
+    log.debug(_('Got result message from orchestration engine:\n{0}'.format(msg.body)))
+
+    environment_result = anyjson.deserialize(msg.body)
+
+    session = get_session()
+    environment = session.query(Environment).get(environment_result['id'])
+
+    environment.description = environment_result
+    environment.save(session)
+
+    #close session
+    conf_session = session.query(Session).filter_by(
+        **{'environment_id': environment.id, 'state': 'deploying'}).first()
+    conf_session.state = 'deployed'
+    conf_session.save(session)
+
+    msg.channel.basic_ack(msg.delivery_tag)
diff --git a/portas/portas/common/uuidutils.py b/portas/portas/common/uuidutils.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f3513ac7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/common/uuidutils.py
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+import uuid
+
+
+def generate_uuid():
+    return str(uuid.uuid4()).replace('-', '')
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/portas/portas/context.py b/portas/portas/context.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9fb9c56c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/context.py
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+# vim: tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4
+
+# Copyright 2011-2012 OpenStack LLC.
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    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.
+
+from portas.openstack.common import uuidutils
+
+
+class RequestContext(object):
+    """
+    Stores information about the security context under which the user
+    accesses the system, as well as additional request information.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, auth_tok=None, user=None, tenant=None, roles=None, service_catalog=None, session=None):
+        self.auth_tok = auth_tok
+        self.user = user
+        self.tenant = tenant
+        self.roles = roles or []
+        self.request_id = uuidutils.generate_uuid()
+        self.service_catalog = service_catalog
+        self.session = session
+
+    def to_dict(self):
+        # NOTE(ameade): These keys are named to correspond with the default
+        # format string for logging the context in openstack common
+        return {
+            'request_id': self.request_id,
+
+            #NOTE(bcwaldon): openstack-common logging expects 'user'
+            'user': self.user,
+            'user_id': self.user,
+
+            #NOTE(bcwaldon): openstack-common logging expects 'tenant'
+            'tenant': self.tenant,
+            'tenant_id': self.tenant,
+            'project_id': self.tenant,
+
+            'roles': self.roles,
+            'auth_token': self.auth_tok,
+            'session': self.session
+        }
+
+    @classmethod
+    def from_dict(cls, values):
+        return cls(**values)
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/portas/portas/db/__init__.py b/portas/portas/db/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..75fd934f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/db/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+from oslo.config import cfg
+
+sql_connection_opt = cfg.StrOpt('sql_connection',
+                                default='sqlite:///portas.sqlite',
+                                secret=True,
+                                metavar='CONNECTION',
+                                help='A valid SQLAlchemy connection '
+                                     'string for the metadata database. '
+                                     'Default: %(default)s')
+
+CONF = cfg.CONF
+CONF.register_opt(sql_connection_opt)
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/portas/portas/db/migrate_repo/README b/portas/portas/db/migrate_repo/README
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6218f8ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/db/migrate_repo/README
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+This is a database migration repository.
+
+More information at
+http://code.google.com/p/sqlalchemy-migrate/
diff --git a/portas/portas/db/migrate_repo/__init__.py b/portas/portas/db/migrate_repo/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2f288d3c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/db/migrate_repo/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+# template repository default module
diff --git a/portas/portas/db/migrate_repo/manage.py b/portas/portas/db/migrate_repo/manage.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..67ac41c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/db/migrate_repo/manage.py
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# Copyright (c) 2012 OpenStack, LLC.
+#
+# 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.
+
+from migrate.versioning.shell import main
+
+# This should probably be a console script entry point.
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main(debug='False', repository='.')
diff --git a/portas/portas/db/migrate_repo/migrate.cfg b/portas/portas/db/migrate_repo/migrate.cfg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2ca05ccb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/db/migrate_repo/migrate.cfg
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+[db_settings]
+# Used to identify which repository this database is versioned under.
+# You can use the name of your project.
+repository_id=Portas Migrations
+
+# The name of the database table used to track the schema version.
+# This name shouldn't already be used by your project.
+# If this is changed once a database is under version control, you'll need to
+# change the table name in each database too.
+version_table=migrate_version
+
+# When committing a change script, Migrate will attempt to generate the
+# sql for all supported databases; normally, if one of them fails - probably
+# because you don't have that database installed - it is ignored and the
+# commit continues, perhaps ending successfully.
+# Databases in this list MUST compile successfully during a commit, or the
+# entire commit will fail. List the databases your application will actually
+# be using to ensure your updates to that database work properly.
+# This must be a list; example: ['postgres','sqlite']
+required_dbs=[]
diff --git a/portas/portas/db/migrate_repo/versions/001_add_initial_tables.py b/portas/portas/db/migrate_repo/versions/001_add_initial_tables.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f2262f2e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/db/migrate_repo/versions/001_add_initial_tables.py
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+from sqlalchemy.schema import MetaData, Table, Column, ForeignKey
+from sqlalchemy.types import String, Text, DateTime
+
+
+meta = MetaData()
+
+Table('environment', meta,
+      Column('id', String(32), primary_key=True),
+      Column('name', String(255), nullable=False),
+      Column('created', DateTime(), nullable=False),
+      Column('updated', DateTime(), nullable=False),
+      Column('tenant_id', String(32), nullable=False),
+      Column('description', Text(), nullable=False),
+)
+
+Table('service', meta,
+      Column('id', String(32), primary_key=True),
+      Column('name', String(255), nullable=False),
+      Column('type', String(40), nullable=False),
+      Column('environment_id', String(32), ForeignKey('environment.id')),
+      Column('created', DateTime, nullable=False),
+      Column('updated', DateTime, nullable=False),
+      Column('description', Text(), nullable=False),
+)
+
+
+def upgrade(migrate_engine):
+    meta.bind = migrate_engine
+    meta.create_all()
+
+
+def downgrade(migrate_engine):
+    meta.bind = migrate_engine
+    meta.drop_all()
diff --git a/portas/portas/db/migrate_repo/versions/002_add_session_table.py b/portas/portas/db/migrate_repo/versions/002_add_session_table.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d9ca59c9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/db/migrate_repo/versions/002_add_session_table.py
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+from sqlalchemy.schema import MetaData, Table, Column, ForeignKey
+from sqlalchemy.types import String, Text, DateTime
+
+meta = MetaData()
+
+session = Table('session', meta,
+                Column('id', String(32), primary_key=True),
+                Column('environment_id', String(32), ForeignKey('environment.id')),
+                Column('created', DateTime, nullable=False),
+                Column('updated', DateTime, nullable=False),
+                Column('user_id', String(32), nullable=False),
+                Column('state', Text(), nullable=False),
+)
+
+
+def upgrade(migrate_engine):
+    meta.bind = migrate_engine
+    meta.reflect()
+    session.create()
+
+
+def downgrade(migrate_engine):
+    meta.bind = migrate_engine
+    session.drop()
diff --git a/portas/portas/db/migrate_repo/versions/003_add_status_table.py b/portas/portas/db/migrate_repo/versions/003_add_status_table.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6bacb9cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/db/migrate_repo/versions/003_add_status_table.py
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+from sqlalchemy.schema import MetaData, Table, Column, ForeignKey
+from sqlalchemy.types import String, Text, DateTime
+
+meta = MetaData()
+
+status = Table('status', meta,
+               Column('id', String(32), primary_key=True),
+               Column('created', DateTime, nullable=False),
+               Column('updated', DateTime, nullable=False),
+               Column('entity', String(10), nullable=False),
+               Column('environment_id', String(32), ForeignKey('environment.id')),
+               Column('session_id', String(32), ForeignKey('session.id')),
+               Column('text', Text(), nullable=False),
+)
+
+
+def upgrade(migrate_engine):
+    meta.bind = migrate_engine
+    meta.reflect()
+    status.create()
+
+
+def downgrade(migrate_engine):
+    meta.bind = migrate_engine
+    status.drop()
diff --git a/portas/portas/db/migrate_repo/versions/004_add_description_column_to_session.py b/portas/portas/db/migrate_repo/versions/004_add_description_column_to_session.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8e380f2e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/db/migrate_repo/versions/004_add_description_column_to_session.py
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+from sqlalchemy.schema import MetaData, Table, Column
+from sqlalchemy.types import Text
+
+meta = MetaData()
+
+
+def upgrade(migrate_engine):
+    meta.bind = migrate_engine
+    session = Table('session', meta, autoload=True)
+    description = Column('description', Text(), nullable=True, default='{}')
+    description.create(session)
+
+
+def downgrade(migrate_engine):
+    meta.bind = migrate_engine
+    session = Table('session', meta, autoload=True)
+    session.c.description.drop()
diff --git a/portas/portas/db/migrate_repo/versions/005_remove_obsolete_service_table.py b/portas/portas/db/migrate_repo/versions/005_remove_obsolete_service_table.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2692829b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/db/migrate_repo/versions/005_remove_obsolete_service_table.py
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+from sqlalchemy.schema import MetaData, Table, Column, ForeignKey
+from sqlalchemy.types import String, Text, DateTime
+
+
+meta = MetaData()
+
+service = Table('service', meta,
+      Column('id', String(32), primary_key=True),
+      Column('name', String(255), nullable=False),
+      Column('type', String(40), nullable=False),
+      Column('environment_id', String(32), ForeignKey('environment.id')),
+      Column('created', DateTime, nullable=False),
+      Column('updated', DateTime, nullable=False),
+      Column('description', Text(), nullable=False),
+)
+
+
+def upgrade(migrate_engine):
+    meta.bind = migrate_engine
+    meta.reflect()
+    service.drop()
+
+
+def downgrade(migrate_engine):
+    meta.bind = migrate_engine
+    meta.reflect()
+    service.create()
diff --git a/portas/portas/db/migrate_repo/versions/__init__.py b/portas/portas/db/migrate_repo/versions/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b
diff --git a/portas/portas/db/models.py b/portas/portas/db/models.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..51eb965a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/db/models.py
@@ -0,0 +1,178 @@
+# vim: tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4
+
+# Copyright 2010 United States Government as represented by the
+# Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    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.
+
+"""
+SQLAlchemy models for portas data
+"""
+import anyjson
+
+from sqlalchemy import Column, String, BigInteger, TypeDecorator, ForeignKey
+from sqlalchemy.ext.compiler import compiles
+from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
+from sqlalchemy import DateTime, Text
+from sqlalchemy.orm import relationship, backref, object_mapper
+from portas.common import uuidutils
+
+from portas.openstack.common import timeutils
+from portas.db.session import get_session
+
+BASE = declarative_base()
+
+
+@compiles(BigInteger, 'sqlite')
+def compile_big_int_sqlite(type_, compiler, **kw):
+    return 'INTEGER'
+
+
+class ModelBase(object):
+    __protected_attributes__ = {"created", "updated"}
+
+    created = Column(DateTime, default=timeutils.utcnow,
+                     nullable=False)
+    updated = Column(DateTime, default=timeutils.utcnow,
+                     nullable=False, onupdate=timeutils.utcnow)
+
+    def save(self, session=None):
+        """Save this object"""
+        session = session or get_session()
+        session.add(self)
+        session.flush()
+
+    def update(self, values):
+        """dict.update() behaviour."""
+        for k, v in values.iteritems():
+            self[k] = v
+
+    def __setitem__(self, key, value):
+        setattr(self, key, value)
+
+    def __getitem__(self, key):
+        return getattr(self, key)
+
+    def __iter__(self):
+        self._i = iter(object_mapper(self).columns)
+        return self
+
+    def next(self):
+        n = self._i.next().name
+        return n, getattr(self, n)
+
+    def keys(self):
+        return self.__dict__.keys()
+
+    def values(self):
+        return self.__dict__.values()
+
+    def items(self):
+        return self.__dict__.items()
+
+    def to_dict(self):
+        dictionary = self.__dict__.copy()
+        return {k: v for k, v in dictionary.iteritems() if k != '_sa_instance_state'}
+
+
+class JsonBlob(TypeDecorator):
+    impl = Text
+
+    def process_bind_param(self, value, dialect):
+        return anyjson.serialize(value)
+
+    def process_result_value(self, value, dialect):
+        return anyjson.deserialize(value)
+
+
+class Environment(BASE, ModelBase):
+    """Represents a Environment in the metadata-store"""
+    __tablename__ = 'environment'
+
+    id = Column(String(32), primary_key=True, default=uuidutils.generate_uuid)
+    name = Column(String(255), nullable=False)
+    tenant_id = Column(String(32), nullable=False)
+    description = Column(JsonBlob(), nullable=False, default='{}')
+
+    def to_dict(self):
+        dictionary = super(Environment, self).to_dict()
+        del dictionary['description']
+        return dictionary
+
+
+class Service(BASE, ModelBase):
+    """
+    Represents an instance of service.
+
+    :var name: string
+    :var type: string - type of service (e.g. Active Directory)
+    """
+
+    __tablename__ = 'service'
+
+    id = Column(String(32), primary_key=True, default=uuidutils.generate_uuid)
+    name = Column(String(255), index=True, nullable=False)
+    type = Column(String(255), index=True, nullable=False)
+    environment_id = Column(String(32), ForeignKey('environment.id'))
+    environment = relationship(Environment,
+                               backref=backref('service'),
+                               uselist=False)
+    description = Column(JsonBlob(), nullable=False)
+
+
+class Session(BASE, ModelBase):
+    __tablename__ = 'session'
+
+    id = Column(String(32), primary_key=True, default=uuidutils.generate_uuid)
+    environment_id = Column(String(32), ForeignKey('environment.id'))
+    environment = relationship(Environment,
+                               backref=backref('session'),
+                               uselist=False, lazy='joined')
+    user_id = Column(String(36), nullable=False)
+    state = Column(String(36), nullable=False)
+    description = Column(JsonBlob(), nullable=False)
+
+    def to_dict(self):
+        dictionary = super(Session, self).to_dict()
+        del dictionary['environment']
+        del dictionary['description']
+        return dictionary
+
+
+class Status(BASE, ModelBase):
+    __tablename__ = 'status'
+
+    id = Column(String(32), primary_key=True)
+    entity = Column(String(10), nullable=False)
+    environment_id = Column(String(32), ForeignKey('environment.id'))
+    session_id = Column(String(32), ForeignKey('session.id'))
+    text = Column(Text(), nullable=False)
+
+
+def register_models(engine):
+    """
+    Creates database tables for all models with the given engine
+    """
+    models = (Environment, Service)
+    for model in models:
+        model.metadata.create_all(engine)
+
+
+def unregister_models(engine):
+    """
+    Drops database tables for all models with the given engine
+    """
+    models = (Environment, Service)
+    for model in models:
+        model.metadata.drop_all(engine)
diff --git a/portas/portas/db/session.py b/portas/portas/db/session.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..42d32f8a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/db/session.py
@@ -0,0 +1,110 @@
+# vim: tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4
+
+# Copyright (c) 2011 X.commerce, a business unit of eBay Inc.
+# Copyright 2010 United States Government as represented by the
+# Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
+# Copyright 2011 Piston Cloud Computing, Inc.
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    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.
+"""Session management functions."""
+
+import os
+import logging
+
+from migrate.versioning import api as versioning_api
+from migrate import exceptions as versioning_exceptions
+from sqlalchemy import create_engine
+from sqlalchemy.engine.url import make_url
+from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker
+from sqlalchemy.pool import NullPool
+from sqlalchemy.exc import DisconnectionError
+
+from portas.common.config import CONF as conf
+
+from portas.db import migrate_repo
+
+
+MAKER = None
+ENGINE = None
+
+
+class MySQLPingListener(object):
+    """
+    Ensures that MySQL connections checked out of the
+    pool are alive.
+
+    Borrowed from:
+    http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy/msg/a4ce563d802c929f
+
+    Error codes caught:
+    * 2006 MySQL server has gone away
+    * 2013 Lost connection to MySQL server during query
+    * 2014 Commands out of sync; you can't run this command now
+    * 2045 Can't open shared memory; no answer from server (%lu)
+    * 2055 Lost connection to MySQL server at '%s', system error: %d
+
+    from http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/ru_RU/error-messages-client.html
+    """
+
+    def checkout(self, dbapi_con, con_record, con_proxy):
+        try:
+            dbapi_con.cursor().execute('select 1')
+        except dbapi_con.OperationalError, ex:
+            if ex.args[0] in (2006, 2013, 2014, 2045, 2055):
+                logging.warn('Got mysql server has gone away: %s', ex)
+                raise DisconnectionError("Database server went away")
+            else:
+                raise
+
+
+def get_session(autocommit=True, expire_on_commit=False):
+    """Return a SQLAlchemy session."""
+    global MAKER
+
+    if MAKER is None:
+        MAKER = sessionmaker(autocommit=autocommit,
+                             expire_on_commit=expire_on_commit)
+    engine = get_engine()
+    MAKER.configure(bind=engine)
+    session = MAKER()
+    return session
+
+
+def get_engine():
+    """Return a SQLAlchemy engine."""
+    global ENGINE
+
+    connection_url = make_url(conf.sql_connection)
+    if ENGINE is None or not ENGINE.url == connection_url:
+        engine_args = {'pool_recycle': 3600,
+                       'echo': False,
+                       'convert_unicode': True
+                       }
+        if 'sqlite' in connection_url.drivername:
+            engine_args['poolclass'] = NullPool
+        if 'mysql' in connection_url.drivername:
+            engine_args['listeners'] = [MySQLPingListener()]
+        ENGINE = create_engine(conf.sql_connection, **engine_args)
+
+        sync()
+    return ENGINE
+
+
+def sync():
+    repo_path = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(migrate_repo.__file__))
+    try:
+        versioning_api.upgrade(conf.sql_connection, repo_path)
+    except versioning_exceptions.DatabaseNotControlledError:
+        versioning_api.version_control(conf.sql_connection, repo_path)
+        versioning_api.upgrade(conf.sql_connection, repo_path)
diff --git a/portas/portas/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/portas.po b/portas/portas/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/portas.po
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4ff98950
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/portas.po
@@ -0,0 +1,191 @@
+# Russian translations for PROJECT.
+# Copyright (C) 2012 ORGANIZATION
+# This file is distributed under the same license as the PROJECT project.
+# FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, 2012.
+#
+msgid ""
+msgstr ""
+"Project-Id-Version: PROJECT VERSION\n"
+"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: EMAIL@ADDRESS\n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2013-03-01 17:33+0400\n"
+"PO-Revision-Date: 2012-04-26 17:40+0800\n"
+"Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
+"Language-Team: ru <LL@li.org>\n"
+"Plural-Forms: nplurals=3; plural=(n%10==1 && n%100!=11 ? 0 : n%10>=2 && "
+"n%10<=4 && (n%100<10 || n%100>=20) ? 1 : 2)\n"
+"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
+"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8\n"
+"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
+"Generated-By: Babel 0.9.6\n"
+
+#: portas/exefile.py:2
+msgid "Hello"
+msgstr "Привет!"
+
+#: portas/openstack/common/exception.py:104
+msgid "Uncaught exception"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: portas/openstack/common/jsonutils.py:88
+#, python-format
+msgid "Max serialization depth exceeded on object: %d %s"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: portas/openstack/common/log.py:225
+#, python-format
+msgid "Deprecated: %s"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: portas/openstack/common/log.py:358
+#, python-format
+msgid "syslog facility must be one of: %s"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: portas/openstack/common/log.py:518
+#, python-format
+msgid "Fatal call to deprecated config: %(msg)s"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: portas/openstack/common/service.py:112
+#: portas/openstack/common/service.py:275
+msgid "Full set of CONF:"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: portas/openstack/common/service.py:121
+#: portas/openstack/common/service.py:218
+#, python-format
+msgid "Caught %s, exiting"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: portas/openstack/common/service.py:164
+msgid "Parent process has died unexpectedly, exiting"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: portas/openstack/common/service.py:200
+msgid "Forking too fast, sleeping"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: portas/openstack/common/service.py:223
+msgid "Unhandled exception"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: portas/openstack/common/service.py:230
+#, python-format
+msgid "Started child %d"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: portas/openstack/common/service.py:240
+#, python-format
+msgid "Starting %d workers"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: portas/openstack/common/service.py:257
+#, python-format
+msgid "Child %(pid)d killed by signal %(sig)d"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: portas/openstack/common/service.py:261
+#, python-format
+msgid "Child %(pid)s exited with status %(code)d"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: portas/openstack/common/service.py:265
+#, python-format
+msgid "pid %d not in child list"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: portas/openstack/common/service.py:293
+#, python-format
+msgid "Caught %s, stopping children"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: portas/openstack/common/service.py:304
+#, python-format
+msgid "Waiting on %d children to exit"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: portas/openstack/common/sslutils.py:52
+#, python-format
+msgid "Unable to find cert_file : %s"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: portas/openstack/common/sslutils.py:55
+#, python-format
+msgid "Unable to find ca_file : %s"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: portas/openstack/common/sslutils.py:58
+#, python-format
+msgid "Unable to find key_file : %s"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: portas/openstack/common/sslutils.py:61
+msgid ""
+"When running server in SSL mode, you must specify both a cert_file and "
+"key_file option value in your configuration file"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: portas/openstack/common/wsgi.py:110
+#, python-format
+msgid "Could not bind to %(host)s:%(port)s after trying for 30 seconds"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: portas/openstack/common/wsgi.py:372
+msgid "Unsupported Content-Type"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: portas/openstack/common/wsgi.py:375
+msgid "Malformed request body"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: portas/openstack/common/wsgi.py:660
+msgid "Empty body provided in request"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: portas/openstack/common/wsgi.py:666
+msgid "Unrecognized Content-Type provided in request"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: portas/openstack/common/wsgi.py:670
+msgid "No Content-Type provided in request"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: portas/openstack/common/wsgi.py:676
+msgid "Unable to deserialize body as provided Content-Type"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: portas/openstack/common/wsgi.py:726
+msgid "cannot understand JSON"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: portas/openstack/common/wsgi.py:750
+msgid "cannot understand XML"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: portas/openstack/common/notifier/api.py:126
+#, python-format
+msgid "%s not in valid priorities"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: portas/openstack/common/notifier/api.py:142
+#, python-format
+msgid ""
+"Problem '%(e)s' attempting to send to notification system. "
+"Payload=%(payload)s"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: portas/openstack/common/notifier/api.py:172
+#, python-format
+msgid "Failed to load notifier %s. These notifications will not be sent."
+msgstr ""
+
+#: portas/openstack/common/notifier/rabbit_notifier.py:27
+msgid "The rabbit_notifier is now deprecated. Please use rpc_notifier instead."
+msgstr ""
+
+#: portas/openstack/common/notifier/rpc_notifier.py:45
+#: portas/openstack/common/notifier/rpc_notifier2.py:51
+#, python-format
+msgid "Could not send notification to %(topic)s. Payload=%(message)s"
+msgstr ""
+
diff --git a/portas/portas/openstack/__init__.py b/portas/portas/openstack/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b
diff --git a/portas/portas/openstack/common/__init__.py b/portas/portas/openstack/common/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b
diff --git a/portas/portas/openstack/common/eventlet_backdoor.py b/portas/portas/openstack/common/eventlet_backdoor.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8b81ebf8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/openstack/common/eventlet_backdoor.py
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+# vim: tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4
+
+# Copyright (c) 2012 Openstack, LLC.
+# Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    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.
+
+import gc
+import pprint
+import sys
+import traceback
+
+import eventlet
+import eventlet.backdoor
+import greenlet
+from oslo.config import cfg
+
+eventlet_backdoor_opts = [
+    cfg.IntOpt('backdoor_port',
+               default=None,
+               help='port for eventlet backdoor to listen')
+]
+
+CONF = cfg.CONF
+CONF.register_opts(eventlet_backdoor_opts)
+
+
+def _dont_use_this():
+    print "Don't use this, just disconnect instead"
+
+
+def _find_objects(t):
+    return filter(lambda o: isinstance(o, t), gc.get_objects())
+
+
+def _print_greenthreads():
+    for i, gt in enumerate(_find_objects(greenlet.greenlet)):
+        print i, gt
+        traceback.print_stack(gt.gr_frame)
+        print
+
+
+def _print_nativethreads():
+    for threadId, stack in sys._current_frames().items():
+        print threadId
+        traceback.print_stack(stack)
+        print
+
+
+def initialize_if_enabled():
+    backdoor_locals = {
+        'exit': _dont_use_this,      # So we don't exit the entire process
+        'quit': _dont_use_this,      # So we don't exit the entire process
+        'fo': _find_objects,
+        'pgt': _print_greenthreads,
+        'pnt': _print_nativethreads,
+    }
+
+    if CONF.backdoor_port is None:
+        return None
+
+    # NOTE(johannes): The standard sys.displayhook will print the value of
+    # the last expression and set it to __builtin__._, which overwrites
+    # the __builtin__._ that gettext sets. Let's switch to using pprint
+    # since it won't interact poorly with gettext, and it's easier to
+    # read the output too.
+    def displayhook(val):
+        if val is not None:
+            pprint.pprint(val)
+    sys.displayhook = displayhook
+
+    sock = eventlet.listen(('localhost', CONF.backdoor_port))
+    port = sock.getsockname()[1]
+    eventlet.spawn_n(eventlet.backdoor.backdoor_server, sock,
+                     locals=backdoor_locals)
+    return port
diff --git a/portas/portas/openstack/common/exception.py b/portas/portas/openstack/common/exception.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..14520189
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/openstack/common/exception.py
@@ -0,0 +1,142 @@
+# vim: tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4
+
+# Copyright 2011 OpenStack LLC.
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    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.
+
+"""
+Exceptions common to OpenStack projects
+"""
+
+import logging
+
+from portas.openstack.common.gettextutils import _
+
+_FATAL_EXCEPTION_FORMAT_ERRORS = False
+
+
+class Error(Exception):
+    def __init__(self, message=None):
+        super(Error, self).__init__(message)
+
+
+class ApiError(Error):
+    def __init__(self, message='Unknown', code='Unknown'):
+        self.message = message
+        self.code = code
+        super(ApiError, self).__init__('%s: %s' % (code, message))
+
+
+class NotFound(Error):
+    pass
+
+
+class UnknownScheme(Error):
+
+    msg = "Unknown scheme '%s' found in URI"
+
+    def __init__(self, scheme):
+        msg = self.__class__.msg % scheme
+        super(UnknownScheme, self).__init__(msg)
+
+
+class BadStoreUri(Error):
+
+    msg = "The Store URI %s was malformed. Reason: %s"
+
+    def __init__(self, uri, reason):
+        msg = self.__class__.msg % (uri, reason)
+        super(BadStoreUri, self).__init__(msg)
+
+
+class Duplicate(Error):
+    pass
+
+
+class NotAuthorized(Error):
+    pass
+
+
+class NotEmpty(Error):
+    pass
+
+
+class Invalid(Error):
+    pass
+
+
+class BadInputError(Exception):
+    """Error resulting from a client sending bad input to a server"""
+    pass
+
+
+class MissingArgumentError(Error):
+    pass
+
+
+class DatabaseMigrationError(Error):
+    pass
+
+
+class ClientConnectionError(Exception):
+    """Error resulting from a client connecting to a server"""
+    pass
+
+
+def wrap_exception(f):
+    def _wrap(*args, **kw):
+        try:
+            return f(*args, **kw)
+        except Exception, e:
+            if not isinstance(e, Error):
+                #exc_type, exc_value, exc_traceback = sys.exc_info()
+                logging.exception(_('Uncaught exception'))
+                #logging.error(traceback.extract_stack(exc_traceback))
+                raise Error(str(e))
+            raise
+    _wrap.func_name = f.func_name
+    return _wrap
+
+
+class OpenstackException(Exception):
+    """
+    Base Exception
+
+    To correctly use this class, inherit from it and define
+    a 'message' property. That message will get printf'd
+    with the keyword arguments provided to the constructor.
+    """
+    message = "An unknown exception occurred"
+
+    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
+        try:
+            self._error_string = self.message % kwargs
+
+        except Exception as e:
+            if _FATAL_EXCEPTION_FORMAT_ERRORS:
+                raise e
+            else:
+                # at least get the core message out if something happened
+                self._error_string = self.message
+
+    def __str__(self):
+        return self._error_string
+
+
+class MalformedRequestBody(OpenstackException):
+    message = "Malformed message body: %(reason)s"
+
+
+class InvalidContentType(OpenstackException):
+    message = "Invalid content type %(content_type)s"
diff --git a/portas/portas/openstack/common/gettextutils.py b/portas/portas/openstack/common/gettextutils.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e196060c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/openstack/common/gettextutils.py
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+# vim: tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4
+
+# Copyright 2012 Red Hat, Inc.
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    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.
+
+"""
+gettext for openstack-common modules.
+
+Usual usage in an openstack.common module:
+
+    from portas.openstack.common.gettextutils import _
+"""
+
+import gettext
+
+
+t = gettext.translation('openstack-common', 'locale', fallback=True)
+
+
+def _(msg):
+    return t.ugettext(msg)
diff --git a/portas/portas/openstack/common/importutils.py b/portas/portas/openstack/common/importutils.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9dec764f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/openstack/common/importutils.py
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+# vim: tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4
+
+# Copyright 2011 OpenStack LLC.
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    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.
+
+"""
+Import related utilities and helper functions.
+"""
+
+import sys
+import traceback
+
+
+def import_class(import_str):
+    """Returns a class from a string including module and class"""
+    mod_str, _sep, class_str = import_str.rpartition('.')
+    try:
+        __import__(mod_str)
+        return getattr(sys.modules[mod_str], class_str)
+    except (ValueError, AttributeError):
+        raise ImportError('Class %s cannot be found (%s)' %
+                          (class_str,
+                           traceback.format_exception(*sys.exc_info())))
+
+
+def import_object(import_str, *args, **kwargs):
+    """Import a class and return an instance of it."""
+    return import_class(import_str)(*args, **kwargs)
+
+
+def import_object_ns(name_space, import_str, *args, **kwargs):
+    """
+    Import a class and return an instance of it, first by trying
+    to find the class in a default namespace, then failing back to
+    a full path if not found in the default namespace.
+    """
+    import_value = "%s.%s" % (name_space, import_str)
+    try:
+        return import_class(import_value)(*args, **kwargs)
+    except ImportError:
+        return import_class(import_str)(*args, **kwargs)
+
+
+def import_module(import_str):
+    """Import a module."""
+    __import__(import_str)
+    return sys.modules[import_str]
+
+
+def try_import(import_str, default=None):
+    """Try to import a module and if it fails return default."""
+    try:
+        return import_module(import_str)
+    except ImportError:
+        return default
diff --git a/portas/portas/openstack/common/jsonutils.py b/portas/portas/openstack/common/jsonutils.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2682c394
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/openstack/common/jsonutils.py
@@ -0,0 +1,147 @@
+# vim: tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4
+
+# Copyright 2010 United States Government as represented by the
+# Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
+# Copyright 2011 Justin Santa Barbara
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    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.
+
+'''
+JSON related utilities.
+
+This module provides a few things:
+
+    1) A handy function for getting an object down to something that can be
+    JSON serialized.  See to_primitive().
+
+    2) Wrappers around loads() and dumps().  The dumps() wrapper will
+    automatically use to_primitive() for you if needed.
+
+    3) This sets up anyjson to use the loads() and dumps() wrappers if anyjson
+    is available.
+'''
+
+
+import datetime
+import functools
+import inspect
+import itertools
+import json
+import logging
+import xmlrpclib
+
+from portas.openstack.common.gettextutils import _
+from portas.openstack.common import timeutils
+
+LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+def to_primitive(value, convert_instances=False, convert_datetime=True,
+                 level=0, max_depth=3):
+    """Convert a complex object into primitives.
+
+    Handy for JSON serialization. We can optionally handle instances,
+    but since this is a recursive function, we could have cyclical
+    data structures.
+
+    To handle cyclical data structures we could track the actual objects
+    visited in a set, but not all objects are hashable. Instead we just
+    track the depth of the object inspections and don't go too deep.
+
+    Therefore, convert_instances=True is lossy ... be aware.
+
+    """
+    nasty = [inspect.ismodule, inspect.isclass, inspect.ismethod,
+             inspect.isfunction, inspect.isgeneratorfunction,
+             inspect.isgenerator, inspect.istraceback, inspect.isframe,
+             inspect.iscode, inspect.isbuiltin, inspect.isroutine,
+             inspect.isabstract]
+    for test in nasty:
+        if test(value):
+            return unicode(value)
+
+    # value of itertools.count doesn't get caught by inspects
+    # above and results in infinite loop when list(value) is called.
+    if type(value) == itertools.count:
+        return unicode(value)
+
+    # FIXME(vish): Workaround for LP bug 852095. Without this workaround,
+    #              tests that raise an exception in a mocked method that
+    #              has a @wrap_exception with a notifier will fail. If
+    #              we up the dependency to 0.5.4 (when it is released) we
+    #              can remove this workaround.
+    if getattr(value, '__module__', None) == 'mox':
+        return 'mock'
+
+    if level > max_depth:
+        LOG.error(_('Max serialization depth exceeded on object: %d %s'),
+                  level, value)
+        return '?'
+
+    # The try block may not be necessary after the class check above,
+    # but just in case ...
+    try:
+        recursive = functools.partial(to_primitive,
+                                      convert_instances=convert_instances,
+                                      convert_datetime=convert_datetime,
+                                      level=level,
+                                      max_depth=max_depth)
+        # It's not clear why xmlrpclib created their own DateTime type, but
+        # for our purposes, make it a datetime type which is explicitly
+        # handled
+        if isinstance(value, xmlrpclib.DateTime):
+            value = datetime.datetime(*tuple(value.timetuple())[:6])
+
+        if isinstance(value, (list, tuple)):
+            return [recursive(v) for v in value]
+        elif isinstance(value, dict):
+            return dict((k, recursive(v)) for k, v in value.iteritems())
+        elif convert_datetime and isinstance(value, datetime.datetime):
+            return timeutils.strtime(value)
+        elif hasattr(value, 'iteritems'):
+            return recursive(dict(value.iteritems()), level=level + 1)
+        elif hasattr(value, '__iter__'):
+            return recursive(list(value))
+        elif convert_instances and hasattr(value, '__dict__'):
+            # Likely an instance of something. Watch for cycles.
+            # Ignore class member vars.
+            return recursive(value.__dict__, level=level + 1)
+        else:
+            return value
+    except TypeError:
+        # Class objects are tricky since they may define something like
+        # __iter__ defined but it isn't callable as list().
+        return unicode(value)
+
+
+def dumps(value, default=to_primitive, **kwargs):
+    return json.dumps(value, default=default, **kwargs)
+
+
+def loads(s):
+    return json.loads(s)
+
+
+def load(s):
+    return json.load(s)
+
+
+try:
+    import anyjson
+except ImportError:
+    pass
+else:
+    anyjson._modules.append((__name__, 'dumps', TypeError,
+                                       'loads', ValueError, 'load'))
+    anyjson.force_implementation(__name__)
diff --git a/portas/portas/openstack/common/local.py b/portas/portas/openstack/common/local.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8bdc837a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/openstack/common/local.py
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+# vim: tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4
+
+# Copyright 2011 OpenStack LLC.
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    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.
+
+"""Greenthread local storage of variables using weak references"""
+
+import weakref
+
+from eventlet import corolocal
+
+
+class WeakLocal(corolocal.local):
+    def __getattribute__(self, attr):
+        rval = corolocal.local.__getattribute__(self, attr)
+        if rval:
+            # NOTE(mikal): this bit is confusing. What is stored is a weak
+            # reference, not the value itself. We therefore need to lookup
+            # the weak reference and return the inner value here.
+            rval = rval()
+        return rval
+
+    def __setattr__(self, attr, value):
+        value = weakref.ref(value)
+        return corolocal.local.__setattr__(self, attr, value)
+
+
+# NOTE(mikal): the name "store" should be deprecated in the future
+store = WeakLocal()
+
+# A "weak" store uses weak references and allows an object to fall out of scope
+# when it falls out of scope in the code that uses the thread local storage. A
+# "strong" store will hold a reference to the object so that it never falls out
+# of scope.
+weak_store = WeakLocal()
+strong_store = corolocal.local
diff --git a/portas/portas/openstack/common/log.py b/portas/portas/openstack/common/log.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8e2dac27
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/openstack/common/log.py
@@ -0,0 +1,521 @@
+# vim: tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4
+
+# Copyright 2011 OpenStack LLC.
+# Copyright 2010 United States Government as represented by the
+# Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    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.
+
+"""Openstack logging handler.
+
+This module adds to logging functionality by adding the option to specify
+a context object when calling the various log methods.  If the context object
+is not specified, default formatting is used. Additionally, an instance uuid
+may be passed as part of the log message, which is intended to make it easier
+for admins to find messages related to a specific instance.
+
+It also allows setting of formatting information through conf.
+
+"""
+
+import cStringIO
+import inspect
+import itertools
+import logging
+import logging.config
+import logging.handlers
+import os
+import stat
+import sys
+import traceback
+
+from oslo.config import cfg
+
+from portas.openstack.common.gettextutils import _
+from portas.openstack.common import jsonutils
+from portas.openstack.common import local
+from portas.openstack.common import notifier
+
+
+_DEFAULT_LOG_FORMAT = "%(asctime)s %(levelname)8s [%(name)s] %(message)s"
+_DEFAULT_LOG_DATE_FORMAT = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"
+
+common_cli_opts = [
+    cfg.BoolOpt('debug',
+                short='d',
+                default=False,
+                help='Print debugging output (set logging level to '
+                     'DEBUG instead of default WARNING level).'),
+    cfg.BoolOpt('verbose',
+                short='v',
+                default=False,
+                help='Print more verbose output (set logging level to '
+                     'INFO instead of default WARNING level).'),
+]
+
+logging_cli_opts = [
+    cfg.StrOpt('log-config',
+               metavar='PATH',
+               help='If this option is specified, the logging configuration '
+                    'file specified is used and overrides any other logging '
+                    'options specified. Please see the Python logging module '
+                    'documentation for details on logging configuration '
+                    'files.'),
+    cfg.StrOpt('log-format',
+               default=_DEFAULT_LOG_FORMAT,
+               metavar='FORMAT',
+               help='A logging.Formatter log message format string which may '
+                    'use any of the available logging.LogRecord attributes. '
+                    'Default: %(default)s'),
+    cfg.StrOpt('log-date-format',
+               default=_DEFAULT_LOG_DATE_FORMAT,
+               metavar='DATE_FORMAT',
+               help='Format string for %%(asctime)s in log records. '
+                    'Default: %(default)s'),
+    cfg.StrOpt('log-file',
+               metavar='PATH',
+               deprecated_name='logfile',
+               help='(Optional) Name of log file to output to. '
+                    'If not set, logging will go to stdout.'),
+    cfg.StrOpt('log-dir',
+               deprecated_name='logdir',
+               help='(Optional) The directory to keep log files in '
+                    '(will be prepended to --log-file)'),
+    cfg.BoolOpt('use-syslog',
+                default=False,
+                help='Use syslog for logging.'),
+    cfg.StrOpt('syslog-log-facility',
+               default='LOG_USER',
+               help='syslog facility to receive log lines')
+]
+
+generic_log_opts = [
+    cfg.BoolOpt('use_stderr',
+                default=True,
+                help='Log output to standard error'),
+    cfg.StrOpt('logfile_mode',
+               default='0644',
+               help='Default file mode used when creating log files'),
+]
+
+log_opts = [
+    cfg.StrOpt('logging_context_format_string',
+               default='%(asctime)s.%(msecs)03d %(levelname)s %(name)s '
+                       '[%(request_id)s %(user)s %(tenant)s] %(instance)s'
+                       '%(message)s',
+               help='format string to use for log messages with context'),
+    cfg.StrOpt('logging_default_format_string',
+               default='%(asctime)s.%(msecs)03d %(process)d %(levelname)s '
+                       '%(name)s [-] %(instance)s%(message)s',
+               help='format string to use for log messages without context'),
+    cfg.StrOpt('logging_debug_format_suffix',
+               default='%(funcName)s %(pathname)s:%(lineno)d',
+               help='data to append to log format when level is DEBUG'),
+    cfg.StrOpt('logging_exception_prefix',
+               default='%(asctime)s.%(msecs)03d %(process)d TRACE %(name)s '
+               '%(instance)s',
+               help='prefix each line of exception output with this format'),
+    cfg.ListOpt('default_log_levels',
+                default=[
+                    'amqplib=WARN',
+                    'sqlalchemy=WARN',
+                    'boto=WARN',
+                    'suds=INFO',
+                    'keystone=INFO',
+                    'eventlet.wsgi.server=WARN'
+                ],
+                help='list of logger=LEVEL pairs'),
+    cfg.BoolOpt('publish_errors',
+                default=False,
+                help='publish error events'),
+    cfg.BoolOpt('fatal_deprecations',
+                default=False,
+                help='make deprecations fatal'),
+
+    # NOTE(mikal): there are two options here because sometimes we are handed
+    # a full instance (and could include more information), and other times we
+    # are just handed a UUID for the instance.
+    cfg.StrOpt('instance_format',
+               default='[instance: %(uuid)s] ',
+               help='If an instance is passed with the log message, format '
+                    'it like this'),
+    cfg.StrOpt('instance_uuid_format',
+               default='[instance: %(uuid)s] ',
+               help='If an instance UUID is passed with the log message, '
+                    'format it like this'),
+]
+
+CONF = cfg.CONF
+CONF.register_cli_opts(common_cli_opts)
+CONF.register_cli_opts(logging_cli_opts)
+CONF.register_opts(generic_log_opts)
+CONF.register_opts(log_opts)
+
+# our new audit level
+# NOTE(jkoelker) Since we synthesized an audit level, make the logging
+#                module aware of it so it acts like other levels.
+logging.AUDIT = logging.INFO + 1
+logging.addLevelName(logging.AUDIT, 'AUDIT')
+
+
+try:
+    NullHandler = logging.NullHandler
+except AttributeError:  # NOTE(jkoelker) NullHandler added in Python 2.7
+    class NullHandler(logging.Handler):
+        def handle(self, record):
+            pass
+
+        def emit(self, record):
+            pass
+
+        def createLock(self):
+            self.lock = None
+
+
+def _dictify_context(context):
+    if context is None:
+        return None
+    if not isinstance(context, dict) and getattr(context, 'to_dict', None):
+        context = context.to_dict()
+    return context
+
+
+def _get_binary_name():
+    return os.path.basename(inspect.stack()[-1][1])
+
+
+def _get_log_file_path(binary=None):
+    logfile = CONF.log_file
+    logdir = CONF.log_dir
+
+    if logfile and not logdir:
+        return logfile
+
+    if logfile and logdir:
+        return os.path.join(logdir, logfile)
+
+    if logdir:
+        binary = binary or _get_binary_name()
+        return '%s.log' % (os.path.join(logdir, binary),)
+
+
+class ContextAdapter(logging.LoggerAdapter):
+    warn = logging.LoggerAdapter.warning
+
+    def __init__(self, logger, project_name, version_string):
+        self.logger = logger
+        self.project = project_name
+        self.version = version_string
+
+    def audit(self, msg, *args, **kwargs):
+        self.log(logging.AUDIT, msg, *args, **kwargs)
+
+    def deprecated(self, msg, *args, **kwargs):
+        stdmsg = _("Deprecated: %s") % msg
+        if CONF.fatal_deprecations:
+            self.critical(stdmsg, *args, **kwargs)
+            raise DeprecatedConfig(msg=stdmsg)
+        else:
+            self.warn(stdmsg, *args, **kwargs)
+
+    def process(self, msg, kwargs):
+        if 'extra' not in kwargs:
+            kwargs['extra'] = {}
+        extra = kwargs['extra']
+
+        context = kwargs.pop('context', None)
+        if not context:
+            context = getattr(local.store, 'context', None)
+        if context:
+            extra.update(_dictify_context(context))
+
+        instance = kwargs.pop('instance', None)
+        instance_extra = ''
+        if instance:
+            instance_extra = CONF.instance_format % instance
+        else:
+            instance_uuid = kwargs.pop('instance_uuid', None)
+            if instance_uuid:
+                instance_extra = (CONF.instance_uuid_format
+                                  % {'uuid': instance_uuid})
+        extra.update({'instance': instance_extra})
+
+        extra.update({"project": self.project})
+        extra.update({"version": self.version})
+        extra['extra'] = extra.copy()
+        return msg, kwargs
+
+
+class JSONFormatter(logging.Formatter):
+    def __init__(self, fmt=None, datefmt=None):
+        # NOTE(jkoelker) we ignore the fmt argument, but its still there
+        #                since logging.config.fileConfig passes it.
+        self.datefmt = datefmt
+
+    def formatException(self, ei, strip_newlines=True):
+        lines = traceback.format_exception(*ei)
+        if strip_newlines:
+            lines = [itertools.ifilter(
+                lambda x: x,
+                line.rstrip().splitlines()) for line in lines]
+            lines = list(itertools.chain(*lines))
+        return lines
+
+    def format(self, record):
+        message = {'message': record.getMessage(),
+                   'asctime': self.formatTime(record, self.datefmt),
+                   'name': record.name,
+                   'msg': record.msg,
+                   'args': record.args,
+                   'levelname': record.levelname,
+                   'levelno': record.levelno,
+                   'pathname': record.pathname,
+                   'filename': record.filename,
+                   'module': record.module,
+                   'lineno': record.lineno,
+                   'funcname': record.funcName,
+                   'created': record.created,
+                   'msecs': record.msecs,
+                   'relative_created': record.relativeCreated,
+                   'thread': record.thread,
+                   'thread_name': record.threadName,
+                   'process_name': record.processName,
+                   'process': record.process,
+                   'traceback': None}
+
+        if hasattr(record, 'extra'):
+            message['extra'] = record.extra
+
+        if record.exc_info:
+            message['traceback'] = self.formatException(record.exc_info)
+
+        return jsonutils.dumps(message)
+
+
+class PublishErrorsHandler(logging.Handler):
+    def emit(self, record):
+        if ('portas.openstack.common.notifier.log_notifier' in
+                CONF.notification_driver):
+            return
+        notifier.api.notify(None, 'error.publisher',
+                            'error_notification',
+                            notifier.api.ERROR,
+                            dict(error=record.msg))
+
+
+def _create_logging_excepthook(product_name):
+    def logging_excepthook(type, value, tb):
+        extra = {}
+        if CONF.verbose:
+            extra['exc_info'] = (type, value, tb)
+        getLogger(product_name).critical(str(value), **extra)
+    return logging_excepthook
+
+
+def setup(product_name):
+    """Setup logging."""
+    if CONF.log_config:
+        logging.config.fileConfig(CONF.log_config)
+    else:
+        _setup_logging_from_conf(product_name)
+    sys.excepthook = _create_logging_excepthook(product_name)
+
+
+def set_defaults(logging_context_format_string):
+    cfg.set_defaults(log_opts,
+                     logging_context_format_string=
+                     logging_context_format_string)
+
+
+def _find_facility_from_conf():
+    facility_names = logging.handlers.SysLogHandler.facility_names
+    facility = getattr(logging.handlers.SysLogHandler,
+                       CONF.syslog_log_facility,
+                       None)
+
+    if facility is None and CONF.syslog_log_facility in facility_names:
+        facility = facility_names.get(CONF.syslog_log_facility)
+
+    if facility is None:
+        valid_facilities = facility_names.keys()
+        consts = ['LOG_AUTH', 'LOG_AUTHPRIV', 'LOG_CRON', 'LOG_DAEMON',
+                  'LOG_FTP', 'LOG_KERN', 'LOG_LPR', 'LOG_MAIL', 'LOG_NEWS',
+                  'LOG_AUTH', 'LOG_SYSLOG', 'LOG_USER', 'LOG_UUCP',
+                  'LOG_LOCAL0', 'LOG_LOCAL1', 'LOG_LOCAL2', 'LOG_LOCAL3',
+                  'LOG_LOCAL4', 'LOG_LOCAL5', 'LOG_LOCAL6', 'LOG_LOCAL7']
+        valid_facilities.extend(consts)
+        raise TypeError(_('syslog facility must be one of: %s') %
+                        ', '.join("'%s'" % fac
+                                  for fac in valid_facilities))
+
+    return facility
+
+
+def _setup_logging_from_conf(product_name):
+    log_root = getLogger(product_name).logger
+    for handler in log_root.handlers:
+        log_root.removeHandler(handler)
+
+    if CONF.use_syslog:
+        facility = _find_facility_from_conf()
+        syslog = logging.handlers.SysLogHandler(address='/dev/log',
+                                                facility=facility)
+        log_root.addHandler(syslog)
+
+    logpath = _get_log_file_path()
+    if logpath:
+        filelog = logging.handlers.WatchedFileHandler(logpath)
+        log_root.addHandler(filelog)
+
+        mode = int(CONF.logfile_mode, 8)
+        st = os.stat(logpath)
+        if st.st_mode != (stat.S_IFREG | mode):
+            os.chmod(logpath, mode)
+
+    if CONF.use_stderr:
+        streamlog = ColorHandler()
+        log_root.addHandler(streamlog)
+
+    elif not CONF.log_file:
+        # pass sys.stdout as a positional argument
+        # python2.6 calls the argument strm, in 2.7 it's stream
+        streamlog = logging.StreamHandler(sys.stdout)
+        log_root.addHandler(streamlog)
+
+    if CONF.publish_errors:
+        log_root.addHandler(PublishErrorsHandler(logging.ERROR))
+
+    for handler in log_root.handlers:
+        datefmt = CONF.log_date_format
+        if CONF.log_format:
+            handler.setFormatter(logging.Formatter(fmt=CONF.log_format,
+                                                   datefmt=datefmt))
+        handler.setFormatter(LegacyFormatter(datefmt=datefmt))
+
+    if CONF.debug:
+        log_root.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
+    elif CONF.verbose:
+        log_root.setLevel(logging.INFO)
+    else:
+        log_root.setLevel(logging.WARNING)
+
+    level = logging.NOTSET
+    for pair in CONF.default_log_levels:
+        mod, _sep, level_name = pair.partition('=')
+        level = logging.getLevelName(level_name)
+        logger = logging.getLogger(mod)
+        logger.setLevel(level)
+        for handler in log_root.handlers:
+            logger.addHandler(handler)
+
+_loggers = {}
+
+
+def getLogger(name='unknown', version='unknown'):
+    if name not in _loggers:
+        _loggers[name] = ContextAdapter(logging.getLogger(name),
+                                        name,
+                                        version)
+    return _loggers[name]
+
+
+class WritableLogger(object):
+    """A thin wrapper that responds to `write` and logs."""
+
+    def __init__(self, logger, level=logging.INFO):
+        self.logger = logger
+        self.level = level
+
+    def write(self, msg):
+        self.logger.log(self.level, msg)
+
+
+class LegacyFormatter(logging.Formatter):
+    """A context.RequestContext aware formatter configured through flags.
+
+    The flags used to set format strings are: logging_context_format_string
+    and logging_default_format_string.  You can also specify
+    logging_debug_format_suffix to append extra formatting if the log level is
+    debug.
+
+    For information about what variables are available for the formatter see:
+    http://docs.python.org/library/logging.html#formatter
+
+    """
+
+    def format(self, record):
+        """Uses contextstring if request_id is set, otherwise default."""
+        # NOTE(sdague): default the fancier formating params
+        # to an empty string so we don't throw an exception if
+        # they get used
+        for key in ('instance', 'color'):
+            if key not in record.__dict__:
+                record.__dict__[key] = ''
+
+        if record.__dict__.get('request_id', None):
+            self._fmt = CONF.logging_context_format_string
+        else:
+            self._fmt = CONF.logging_default_format_string
+
+        if (record.levelno == logging.DEBUG and
+                CONF.logging_debug_format_suffix):
+            self._fmt += " " + CONF.logging_debug_format_suffix
+
+        # Cache this on the record, Logger will respect our formated copy
+        if record.exc_info:
+            record.exc_text = self.formatException(record.exc_info, record)
+        return logging.Formatter.format(self, record)
+
+    def formatException(self, exc_info, record=None):
+        """Format exception output with CONF.logging_exception_prefix."""
+        if not record:
+            return logging.Formatter.formatException(self, exc_info)
+
+        stringbuffer = cStringIO.StringIO()
+        traceback.print_exception(exc_info[0], exc_info[1], exc_info[2],
+                                  None, stringbuffer)
+        lines = stringbuffer.getvalue().split('\n')
+        stringbuffer.close()
+
+        if CONF.logging_exception_prefix.find('%(asctime)') != -1:
+            record.asctime = self.formatTime(record, self.datefmt)
+
+        formatted_lines = []
+        for line in lines:
+            pl = CONF.logging_exception_prefix % record.__dict__
+            fl = '%s%s' % (pl, line)
+            formatted_lines.append(fl)
+        return '\n'.join(formatted_lines)
+
+
+class ColorHandler(logging.StreamHandler):
+    LEVEL_COLORS = {
+        logging.DEBUG: '\033[00;32m',  # GREEN
+        logging.INFO: '\033[00;36m',  # CYAN
+        logging.AUDIT: '\033[01;36m',  # BOLD CYAN
+        logging.WARN: '\033[01;33m',  # BOLD YELLOW
+        logging.ERROR: '\033[01;31m',  # BOLD RED
+        logging.CRITICAL: '\033[01;31m',  # BOLD RED
+    }
+
+    def format(self, record):
+        record.color = self.LEVEL_COLORS[record.levelno]
+        return logging.StreamHandler.format(self, record)
+
+
+class DeprecatedConfig(Exception):
+    message = _("Fatal call to deprecated config: %(msg)s")
+
+    def __init__(self, msg):
+        super(Exception, self).__init__(self.message % dict(msg=msg))
diff --git a/portas/portas/openstack/common/loopingcall.py b/portas/portas/openstack/common/loopingcall.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c2be723c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/openstack/common/loopingcall.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+# vim: tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4
+
+# Copyright 2010 United States Government as represented by the
+# Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
+# Copyright 2011 Justin Santa Barbara
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    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.
+
+import sys
+
+from eventlet import event
+from eventlet import greenthread
+
+from portas.openstack.common.gettextutils import _
+from portas.openstack.common import log as logging
+from portas.openstack.common import timeutils
+
+LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+class LoopingCallDone(Exception):
+    """Exception to break out and stop a LoopingCall.
+
+    The poll-function passed to LoopingCall can raise this exception to
+    break out of the loop normally. This is somewhat analogous to
+    StopIteration.
+
+    An optional return-value can be included as the argument to the exception;
+    this return-value will be returned by LoopingCall.wait()
+
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, retvalue=True):
+        """:param retvalue: Value that LoopingCall.wait() should return."""
+        self.retvalue = retvalue
+
+
+class LoopingCall(object):
+    def __init__(self, f=None, *args, **kw):
+        self.args = args
+        self.kw = kw
+        self.f = f
+        self._running = False
+
+    def start(self, interval, initial_delay=None):
+        self._running = True
+        done = event.Event()
+
+        def _inner():
+            if initial_delay:
+                greenthread.sleep(initial_delay)
+
+            try:
+                while self._running:
+                    start = timeutils.utcnow()
+                    self.f(*self.args, **self.kw)
+                    end = timeutils.utcnow()
+                    if not self._running:
+                        break
+                    delay = interval - timeutils.delta_seconds(start, end)
+                    if delay <= 0:
+                        LOG.warn(_('task run outlasted interval by %s sec') %
+                                 -delay)
+                    greenthread.sleep(delay if delay > 0 else 0)
+            except LoopingCallDone, e:
+                self.stop()
+                done.send(e.retvalue)
+            except Exception:
+                LOG.exception(_('in looping call'))
+                done.send_exception(*sys.exc_info())
+                return
+            else:
+                done.send(True)
+
+        self.done = done
+
+        greenthread.spawn_n(_inner)
+        return self.done
+
+    def stop(self):
+        self._running = False
+
+    def wait(self):
+        return self.done.wait()
diff --git a/portas/portas/openstack/common/notifier/__init__.py b/portas/portas/openstack/common/notifier/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..482d54e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/openstack/common/notifier/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+# Copyright 2011 OpenStack LLC.
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    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.
diff --git a/portas/portas/openstack/common/notifier/api.py b/portas/portas/openstack/common/notifier/api.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..af68d2d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/openstack/common/notifier/api.py
@@ -0,0 +1,183 @@
+# Copyright 2011 OpenStack LLC.
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    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.
+
+import uuid
+
+from oslo.config import cfg
+
+from portas.openstack.common import context
+from portas.openstack.common.gettextutils import _
+from portas.openstack.common import importutils
+from portas.openstack.common import jsonutils
+from portas.openstack.common import log as logging
+from portas.openstack.common import timeutils
+
+
+LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+notifier_opts = [
+    cfg.MultiStrOpt('notification_driver',
+                    default=[],
+                    deprecated_name='list_notifier_drivers',
+                    help='Driver or drivers to handle sending notifications'),
+    cfg.StrOpt('default_notification_level',
+               default='INFO',
+               help='Default notification level for outgoing notifications'),
+    cfg.StrOpt('default_publisher_id',
+               default='$host',
+               help='Default publisher_id for outgoing notifications'),
+]
+
+CONF = cfg.CONF
+CONF.register_opts(notifier_opts)
+
+WARN = 'WARN'
+INFO = 'INFO'
+ERROR = 'ERROR'
+CRITICAL = 'CRITICAL'
+DEBUG = 'DEBUG'
+
+log_levels = (DEBUG, WARN, INFO, ERROR, CRITICAL)
+
+
+class BadPriorityException(Exception):
+    pass
+
+
+def notify_decorator(name, fn):
+    """ decorator for notify which is used from utils.monkey_patch()
+
+        :param name: name of the function
+        :param function: - object of the function
+        :returns: function -- decorated function
+
+    """
+    def wrapped_func(*args, **kwarg):
+        body = {}
+        body['args'] = []
+        body['kwarg'] = {}
+        for arg in args:
+            body['args'].append(arg)
+        for key in kwarg:
+            body['kwarg'][key] = kwarg[key]
+
+        ctxt = context.get_context_from_function_and_args(fn, args, kwarg)
+        notify(ctxt,
+               CONF.default_publisher_id,
+               name,
+               CONF.default_notification_level,
+               body)
+        return fn(*args, **kwarg)
+    return wrapped_func
+
+
+def publisher_id(service, host=None):
+    if not host:
+        host = CONF.host
+    return "%s.%s" % (service, host)
+
+
+def notify(context, publisher_id, event_type, priority, payload):
+    """Sends a notification using the specified driver
+
+    :param publisher_id: the source worker_type.host of the message
+    :param event_type:   the literal type of event (ex. Instance Creation)
+    :param priority:     patterned after the enumeration of Python logging
+                         levels in the set (DEBUG, WARN, INFO, ERROR, CRITICAL)
+    :param payload:       A python dictionary of attributes
+
+    Outgoing message format includes the above parameters, and appends the
+    following:
+
+    message_id
+      a UUID representing the id for this notification
+
+    timestamp
+      the GMT timestamp the notification was sent at
+
+    The composite message will be constructed as a dictionary of the above
+    attributes, which will then be sent via the transport mechanism defined
+    by the driver.
+
+    Message example::
+
+        {'message_id': str(uuid.uuid4()),
+         'publisher_id': 'compute.host1',
+         'timestamp': timeutils.utcnow(),
+         'priority': 'WARN',
+         'event_type': 'compute.create_instance',
+         'payload': {'instance_id': 12, ... }}
+
+    """
+    if priority not in log_levels:
+        raise BadPriorityException(
+            _('%s not in valid priorities') % priority)
+
+    # Ensure everything is JSON serializable.
+    payload = jsonutils.to_primitive(payload, convert_instances=True)
+
+    msg = dict(message_id=str(uuid.uuid4()),
+               publisher_id=publisher_id,
+               event_type=event_type,
+               priority=priority,
+               payload=payload,
+               timestamp=str(timeutils.utcnow()))
+
+    for driver in _get_drivers():
+        try:
+            driver.notify(context, msg)
+        except Exception as e:
+            LOG.exception(_("Problem '%(e)s' attempting to "
+                            "send to notification system. "
+                            "Payload=%(payload)s")
+                          % dict(e=e, payload=payload))
+
+
+_drivers = None
+
+
+def _get_drivers():
+    """Instantiate, cache, and return drivers based on the CONF."""
+    global _drivers
+    if _drivers is None:
+        _drivers = {}
+        for notification_driver in CONF.notification_driver:
+            add_driver(notification_driver)
+
+    return _drivers.values()
+
+
+def add_driver(notification_driver):
+    """Add a notification driver at runtime."""
+    # Make sure the driver list is initialized.
+    _get_drivers()
+    if isinstance(notification_driver, basestring):
+        # Load and add
+        try:
+            driver = importutils.import_module(notification_driver)
+            _drivers[notification_driver] = driver
+        except ImportError:
+            LOG.exception(_("Failed to load notifier %s. "
+                            "These notifications will not be sent.") %
+                          notification_driver)
+    else:
+        # Driver is already loaded; just add the object.
+        _drivers[notification_driver] = notification_driver
+
+
+def _reset_drivers():
+    """Used by unit tests to reset the drivers."""
+    global _drivers
+    _drivers = None
diff --git a/portas/portas/openstack/common/notifier/log_notifier.py b/portas/portas/openstack/common/notifier/log_notifier.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..bc4799fe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/openstack/common/notifier/log_notifier.py
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+# Copyright 2011 OpenStack LLC.
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    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.
+
+from oslo.config import cfg
+
+from portas.openstack.common import jsonutils
+from portas.openstack.common import log as logging
+
+
+CONF = cfg.CONF
+
+
+def notify(_context, message):
+    """Notifies the recipient of the desired event given the model.
+    Log notifications using openstack's default logging system"""
+
+    priority = message.get('priority',
+                           CONF.default_notification_level)
+    priority = priority.lower()
+    logger = logging.getLogger(
+        'portas.openstack.common.notification.%s' %
+        message['event_type'])
+    getattr(logger, priority)(jsonutils.dumps(message))
diff --git a/portas/portas/openstack/common/notifier/no_op_notifier.py b/portas/portas/openstack/common/notifier/no_op_notifier.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ee1ddbdc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/openstack/common/notifier/no_op_notifier.py
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+# Copyright 2011 OpenStack LLC.
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    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.
+
+
+def notify(_context, message):
+    """Notifies the recipient of the desired event given the model"""
+    pass
diff --git a/portas/portas/openstack/common/notifier/rabbit_notifier.py b/portas/portas/openstack/common/notifier/rabbit_notifier.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0687cfd3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/openstack/common/notifier/rabbit_notifier.py
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+# Copyright 2012 Red Hat, Inc.
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    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.
+
+
+from portas.openstack.common.gettextutils import _
+from portas.openstack.common import log as logging
+from portas.openstack.common.notifier import rpc_notifier
+
+LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+def notify(context, message):
+    """Deprecated in Grizzly. Please use rpc_notifier instead."""
+
+    LOG.deprecated(_("The rabbit_notifier is now deprecated."
+                     " Please use rpc_notifier instead."))
+    rpc_notifier.notify(context, message)
diff --git a/portas/portas/openstack/common/notifier/rpc_notifier.py b/portas/portas/openstack/common/notifier/rpc_notifier.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e00d9dc0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/openstack/common/notifier/rpc_notifier.py
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+# Copyright 2011 OpenStack LLC.
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    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.
+
+from oslo.config import cfg
+
+from portas.openstack.common import context as req_context
+from portas.openstack.common.gettextutils import _
+from portas.openstack.common import log as logging
+from portas.openstack.common import rpc
+
+LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+notification_topic_opt = cfg.ListOpt(
+    'notification_topics', default=['notifications', ],
+    help='AMQP topic used for openstack notifications')
+
+CONF = cfg.CONF
+CONF.register_opt(notification_topic_opt)
+
+
+def notify(context, message):
+    """Sends a notification via RPC"""
+    if not context:
+        context = req_context.get_admin_context()
+    priority = message.get('priority',
+                           CONF.default_notification_level)
+    priority = priority.lower()
+    for topic in CONF.notification_topics:
+        topic = '%s.%s' % (topic, priority)
+        try:
+            rpc.notify(context, topic, message)
+        except Exception:
+            LOG.exception(_("Could not send notification to %(topic)s. "
+                            "Payload=%(message)s"), locals())
diff --git a/portas/portas/openstack/common/notifier/rpc_notifier2.py b/portas/portas/openstack/common/notifier/rpc_notifier2.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b4afb9ab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/openstack/common/notifier/rpc_notifier2.py
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+# Copyright 2011 OpenStack LLC.
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    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.
+
+'''messaging based notification driver, with message envelopes'''
+
+from oslo.config import cfg
+
+from portas.openstack.common import context as req_context
+from portas.openstack.common.gettextutils import _
+from portas.openstack.common import log as logging
+from portas.openstack.common import rpc
+
+LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+notification_topic_opt = cfg.ListOpt(
+    'topics', default=['notifications', ],
+    help='AMQP topic(s) used for openstack notifications')
+
+opt_group = cfg.OptGroup(name='rpc_notifier2',
+                         title='Options for rpc_notifier2')
+
+CONF = cfg.CONF
+CONF.register_group(opt_group)
+CONF.register_opt(notification_topic_opt, opt_group)
+
+
+def notify(context, message):
+    """Sends a notification via RPC"""
+    if not context:
+        context = req_context.get_admin_context()
+    priority = message.get('priority',
+                           CONF.default_notification_level)
+    priority = priority.lower()
+    for topic in CONF.rpc_notifier2.topics:
+        topic = '%s.%s' % (topic, priority)
+        try:
+            rpc.notify(context, topic, message, envelope=True)
+        except Exception:
+            LOG.exception(_("Could not send notification to %(topic)s. "
+                            "Payload=%(message)s"), locals())
diff --git a/portas/portas/openstack/common/notifier/test_notifier.py b/portas/portas/openstack/common/notifier/test_notifier.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5e348803
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/openstack/common/notifier/test_notifier.py
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+# Copyright 2011 OpenStack LLC.
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    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.
+
+
+NOTIFICATIONS = []
+
+
+def notify(_context, message):
+    """Test notifier, stores notifications in memory for unittests."""
+    NOTIFICATIONS.append(message)
diff --git a/portas/portas/openstack/common/service.py b/portas/portas/openstack/common/service.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..042c721a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/openstack/common/service.py
@@ -0,0 +1,332 @@
+# vim: tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4
+
+# Copyright 2010 United States Government as represented by the
+# Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
+# Copyright 2011 Justin Santa Barbara
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    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.
+
+"""Generic Node base class for all workers that run on hosts."""
+
+import errno
+import os
+import random
+import signal
+import sys
+import time
+
+import eventlet
+import logging as std_logging
+from oslo.config import cfg
+
+from portas.openstack.common import eventlet_backdoor
+from portas.openstack.common.gettextutils import _
+from portas.openstack.common import importutils
+from portas.openstack.common import log as logging
+from portas.openstack.common import threadgroup
+
+
+rpc = importutils.try_import('portas.openstack.common.rpc')
+CONF = cfg.CONF
+LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+class Launcher(object):
+    """Launch one or more services and wait for them to complete."""
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        """Initialize the service launcher.
+
+        :returns: None
+
+        """
+        self._services = threadgroup.ThreadGroup()
+        eventlet_backdoor.initialize_if_enabled()
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def run_service(service):
+        """Start and wait for a service to finish.
+
+        :param service: service to run and wait for.
+        :returns: None
+
+        """
+        service.start()
+        service.wait()
+
+    def launch_service(self, service):
+        """Load and start the given service.
+
+        :param service: The service you would like to start.
+        :returns: None
+
+        """
+        self._services.add_thread(self.run_service, service)
+
+    def stop(self):
+        """Stop all services which are currently running.
+
+        :returns: None
+
+        """
+        self._services.stop()
+
+    def wait(self):
+        """Waits until all services have been stopped, and then returns.
+
+        :returns: None
+
+        """
+        self._services.wait()
+
+
+class SignalExit(SystemExit):
+    def __init__(self, signo, exccode=1):
+        super(SignalExit, self).__init__(exccode)
+        self.signo = signo
+
+
+class ServiceLauncher(Launcher):
+    def _handle_signal(self, signo, frame):
+        # Allow the process to be killed again and die from natural causes
+        signal.signal(signal.SIGTERM, signal.SIG_DFL)
+        signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, signal.SIG_DFL)
+
+        raise SignalExit(signo)
+
+    def wait(self):
+        signal.signal(signal.SIGTERM, self._handle_signal)
+        signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, self._handle_signal)
+
+        LOG.debug(_('Full set of CONF:'))
+        CONF.log_opt_values(LOG, std_logging.DEBUG)
+
+        status = None
+        try:
+            super(ServiceLauncher, self).wait()
+        except SignalExit as exc:
+            signame = {signal.SIGTERM: 'SIGTERM',
+                       signal.SIGINT: 'SIGINT'}[exc.signo]
+            LOG.info(_('Caught %s, exiting'), signame)
+            status = exc.code
+        except SystemExit as exc:
+            status = exc.code
+        finally:
+            if rpc:
+                rpc.cleanup()
+            self.stop()
+        return status
+
+
+class ServiceWrapper(object):
+    def __init__(self, service, workers):
+        self.service = service
+        self.workers = workers
+        self.children = set()
+        self.forktimes = []
+
+
+class ProcessLauncher(object):
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.children = {}
+        self.sigcaught = None
+        self.running = True
+        rfd, self.writepipe = os.pipe()
+        self.readpipe = eventlet.greenio.GreenPipe(rfd, 'r')
+
+        signal.signal(signal.SIGTERM, self._handle_signal)
+        signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, self._handle_signal)
+
+    def _handle_signal(self, signo, frame):
+        self.sigcaught = signo
+        self.running = False
+
+        # Allow the process to be killed again and die from natural causes
+        signal.signal(signal.SIGTERM, signal.SIG_DFL)
+        signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, signal.SIG_DFL)
+
+    def _pipe_watcher(self):
+        # This will block until the write end is closed when the parent
+        # dies unexpectedly
+        self.readpipe.read()
+
+        LOG.info(_('Parent process has died unexpectedly, exiting'))
+
+        sys.exit(1)
+
+    def _child_process(self, service):
+        # Setup child signal handlers differently
+        def _sigterm(*args):
+            signal.signal(signal.SIGTERM, signal.SIG_DFL)
+            raise SignalExit(signal.SIGTERM)
+
+        signal.signal(signal.SIGTERM, _sigterm)
+        # Block SIGINT and let the parent send us a SIGTERM
+        signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, signal.SIG_IGN)
+
+        # Reopen the eventlet hub to make sure we don't share an epoll
+        # fd with parent and/or siblings, which would be bad
+        eventlet.hubs.use_hub()
+
+        # Close write to ensure only parent has it open
+        os.close(self.writepipe)
+        # Create greenthread to watch for parent to close pipe
+        eventlet.spawn_n(self._pipe_watcher)
+
+        # Reseed random number generator
+        random.seed()
+
+        launcher = Launcher()
+        launcher.run_service(service)
+
+    def _start_child(self, wrap):
+        if len(wrap.forktimes) > wrap.workers:
+            # Limit ourselves to one process a second (over the period of
+            # number of workers * 1 second). This will allow workers to
+            # start up quickly but ensure we don't fork off children that
+            # die instantly too quickly.
+            if time.time() - wrap.forktimes[0] < wrap.workers:
+                LOG.info(_('Forking too fast, sleeping'))
+                time.sleep(1)
+
+            wrap.forktimes.pop(0)
+
+        wrap.forktimes.append(time.time())
+
+        pid = os.fork()
+        if pid == 0:
+            # NOTE(johannes): All exceptions are caught to ensure this
+            # doesn't fallback into the loop spawning children. It would
+            # be bad for a child to spawn more children.
+            status = 0
+            try:
+                self._child_process(wrap.service)
+            except SignalExit as exc:
+                signame = {signal.SIGTERM: 'SIGTERM',
+                           signal.SIGINT: 'SIGINT'}[exc.signo]
+                LOG.info(_('Caught %s, exiting'), signame)
+                status = exc.code
+            except SystemExit as exc:
+                status = exc.code
+            except BaseException:
+                LOG.exception(_('Unhandled exception'))
+                status = 2
+            finally:
+                wrap.service.stop()
+
+            os._exit(status)
+
+        LOG.info(_('Started child %d'), pid)
+
+        wrap.children.add(pid)
+        self.children[pid] = wrap
+
+        return pid
+
+    def launch_service(self, service, workers=1):
+        wrap = ServiceWrapper(service, workers)
+
+        LOG.info(_('Starting %d workers'), wrap.workers)
+        while self.running and len(wrap.children) < wrap.workers:
+            self._start_child(wrap)
+
+    def _wait_child(self):
+        try:
+            # Don't block if no child processes have exited
+            pid, status = os.waitpid(0, os.WNOHANG)
+            if not pid:
+                return None
+        except OSError as exc:
+            if exc.errno not in (errno.EINTR, errno.ECHILD):
+                raise
+            return None
+
+        if os.WIFSIGNALED(status):
+            sig = os.WTERMSIG(status)
+            LOG.info(_('Child %(pid)d killed by signal %(sig)d'),
+                     dict(pid=pid, sig=sig))
+        else:
+            code = os.WEXITSTATUS(status)
+            LOG.info(_('Child %(pid)s exited with status %(code)d'),
+                     dict(pid=pid, code=code))
+
+        if pid not in self.children:
+            LOG.warning(_('pid %d not in child list'), pid)
+            return None
+
+        wrap = self.children.pop(pid)
+        wrap.children.remove(pid)
+        return wrap
+
+    def wait(self):
+        """Loop waiting on children to die and respawning as necessary"""
+
+        LOG.debug(_('Full set of CONF:'))
+        CONF.log_opt_values(LOG, std_logging.DEBUG)
+
+        while self.running:
+            wrap = self._wait_child()
+            if not wrap:
+                # Yield to other threads if no children have exited
+                # Sleep for a short time to avoid excessive CPU usage
+                # (see bug #1095346)
+                eventlet.greenthread.sleep(.01)
+                continue
+
+            while self.running and len(wrap.children) < wrap.workers:
+                self._start_child(wrap)
+
+        if self.sigcaught:
+            signame = {signal.SIGTERM: 'SIGTERM',
+                       signal.SIGINT: 'SIGINT'}[self.sigcaught]
+            LOG.info(_('Caught %s, stopping children'), signame)
+
+        for pid in self.children:
+            try:
+                os.kill(pid, signal.SIGTERM)
+            except OSError as exc:
+                if exc.errno != errno.ESRCH:
+                    raise
+
+        # Wait for children to die
+        if self.children:
+            LOG.info(_('Waiting on %d children to exit'), len(self.children))
+            while self.children:
+                self._wait_child()
+
+
+class Service(object):
+    """Service object for binaries running on hosts."""
+
+    def __init__(self, threads=1000):
+        self.tg = threadgroup.ThreadGroup(threads)
+
+    def start(self):
+        pass
+
+    def stop(self):
+        self.tg.stop()
+
+    def wait(self):
+        self.tg.wait()
+
+
+def launch(service, workers=None):
+    if workers:
+        launcher = ProcessLauncher()
+        launcher.launch_service(service, workers=workers)
+    else:
+        launcher = ServiceLauncher()
+        launcher.launch_service(service)
+    return launcher
diff --git a/portas/portas/openstack/common/setup.py b/portas/portas/openstack/common/setup.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..80a0ecee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/openstack/common/setup.py
@@ -0,0 +1,359 @@
+# vim: tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4
+
+# Copyright 2011 OpenStack LLC.
+# Copyright 2012-2013 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    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.
+
+"""
+Utilities with minimum-depends for use in setup.py
+"""
+
+import email
+import os
+import re
+import subprocess
+import sys
+
+from setuptools.command import sdist
+
+
+def parse_mailmap(mailmap='.mailmap'):
+    mapping = {}
+    if os.path.exists(mailmap):
+        with open(mailmap, 'r') as fp:
+            for l in fp:
+                try:
+                    canonical_email, alias = re.match(
+                        r'[^#]*?(<.+>).*(<.+>).*', l).groups()
+                except AttributeError:
+                    continue
+                mapping[alias] = canonical_email
+    return mapping
+
+
+def _parse_git_mailmap(git_dir, mailmap='.mailmap'):
+    mailmap = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(git_dir), mailmap)
+    return parse_mailmap(mailmap)
+
+
+def canonicalize_emails(changelog, mapping):
+    """Takes in a string and an email alias mapping and replaces all
+       instances of the aliases in the string with their real email.
+    """
+    for alias, email_address in mapping.iteritems():
+        changelog = changelog.replace(alias, email_address)
+    return changelog
+
+
+# Get requirements from the first file that exists
+def get_reqs_from_files(requirements_files):
+    for requirements_file in requirements_files:
+        if os.path.exists(requirements_file):
+            with open(requirements_file, 'r') as fil:
+                return fil.read().split('\n')
+    return []
+
+
+def parse_requirements(requirements_files=['requirements.txt',
+                                           'tools/pip-requires']):
+    requirements = []
+    for line in get_reqs_from_files(requirements_files):
+        # For the requirements list, we need to inject only the portion
+        # after egg= so that distutils knows the package it's looking for
+        # such as:
+        # -e git://github.com/openstack/nova/master#egg=nova
+        if re.match(r'\s*-e\s+', line):
+            requirements.append(re.sub(r'\s*-e\s+.*#egg=(.*)$', r'\1',
+                                line))
+        # such as:
+        # http://github.com/openstack/nova/zipball/master#egg=nova
+        elif re.match(r'\s*https?:', line):
+            requirements.append(re.sub(r'\s*https?:.*#egg=(.*)$', r'\1',
+                                line))
+        # -f lines are for index locations, and don't get used here
+        elif re.match(r'\s*-f\s+', line):
+            pass
+        # argparse is part of the standard library starting with 2.7
+        # adding it to the requirements list screws distro installs
+        elif line == 'argparse' and sys.version_info >= (2, 7):
+            pass
+        else:
+            requirements.append(line)
+
+    return requirements
+
+
+def parse_dependency_links(requirements_files=['requirements.txt',
+                                               'tools/pip-requires']):
+    dependency_links = []
+    # dependency_links inject alternate locations to find packages listed
+    # in requirements
+    for line in get_reqs_from_files(requirements_files):
+        # skip comments and blank lines
+        if re.match(r'(\s*#)|(\s*$)', line):
+            continue
+        # lines with -e or -f need the whole line, minus the flag
+        if re.match(r'\s*-[ef]\s+', line):
+            dependency_links.append(re.sub(r'\s*-[ef]\s+', '', line))
+        # lines that are only urls can go in unmolested
+        elif re.match(r'\s*https?:', line):
+            dependency_links.append(line)
+    return dependency_links
+
+
+def _run_shell_command(cmd, throw_on_error=False):
+    if os.name == 'nt':
+        output = subprocess.Popen(["cmd.exe", "/C", cmd],
+                                  stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
+                                  stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
+    else:
+        output = subprocess.Popen(["/bin/sh", "-c", cmd],
+                                  stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
+                                  stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
+    out = output.communicate()
+    if output.returncode and throw_on_error:
+        raise Exception("%s returned %d" % cmd, output.returncode)
+    if len(out) == 0:
+        return None
+    if len(out[0].strip()) == 0:
+        return None
+    return out[0].strip()
+
+
+def _get_git_directory():
+    parent_dir = os.path.dirname(__file__)
+    while True:
+        git_dir = os.path.join(parent_dir, '.git')
+        if os.path.exists(git_dir):
+            return git_dir
+        parent_dir, child = os.path.split(parent_dir)
+        if not child:   # reached to root dir
+            return None
+
+
+def write_git_changelog():
+    """Write a changelog based on the git changelog."""
+    new_changelog = 'ChangeLog'
+    git_dir = _get_git_directory()
+    if not os.getenv('SKIP_WRITE_GIT_CHANGELOG'):
+        if git_dir:
+            git_log_cmd = 'git --git-dir=%s log --stat' % git_dir
+            changelog = _run_shell_command(git_log_cmd)
+            mailmap = _parse_git_mailmap(git_dir)
+            with open(new_changelog, "w") as changelog_file:
+                changelog_file.write(canonicalize_emails(changelog, mailmap))
+    else:
+        open(new_changelog, 'w').close()
+
+
+def generate_authors():
+    """Create AUTHORS file using git commits."""
+    jenkins_email = 'jenkins@review.(openstack|stackforge).org'
+    old_authors = 'AUTHORS.in'
+    new_authors = 'AUTHORS'
+    git_dir = _get_git_directory()
+    if not os.getenv('SKIP_GENERATE_AUTHORS'):
+        if git_dir:
+            # don't include jenkins email address in AUTHORS file
+            git_log_cmd = ("git --git-dir=" + git_dir +
+                           " log --format='%aN <%aE>' | sort -u | "
+                           "egrep -v '" + jenkins_email + "'")
+            changelog = _run_shell_command(git_log_cmd)
+            mailmap = _parse_git_mailmap(git_dir)
+            with open(new_authors, 'w') as new_authors_fh:
+                new_authors_fh.write(canonicalize_emails(changelog, mailmap))
+                if os.path.exists(old_authors):
+                    with open(old_authors, "r") as old_authors_fh:
+                        new_authors_fh.write('\n' + old_authors_fh.read())
+    else:
+        open(new_authors, 'w').close()
+
+
+_rst_template = """%(heading)s
+%(underline)s
+
+.. automodule:: %(module)s
+  :members:
+  :undoc-members:
+  :show-inheritance:
+"""
+
+
+def get_cmdclass():
+    """Return dict of commands to run from setup.py."""
+
+    cmdclass = dict()
+
+    def _find_modules(arg, dirname, files):
+        for filename in files:
+            if filename.endswith('.py') and filename != '__init__.py':
+                arg["%s.%s" % (dirname.replace('/', '.'),
+                               filename[:-3])] = True
+
+    class LocalSDist(sdist.sdist):
+        """Builds the ChangeLog and Authors files from VC first."""
+
+        def run(self):
+            write_git_changelog()
+            generate_authors()
+            # sdist.sdist is an old style class, can't use super()
+            sdist.sdist.run(self)
+
+    cmdclass['sdist'] = LocalSDist
+
+    # If Sphinx is installed on the box running setup.py,
+    # enable setup.py to build the documentation, otherwise,
+    # just ignore it
+    try:
+        from sphinx.setup_command import BuildDoc
+
+        class LocalBuildDoc(BuildDoc):
+
+            builders = ['html', 'man']
+
+            def generate_autoindex(self):
+                print "**Autodocumenting from %s" % os.path.abspath(os.curdir)
+                modules = {}
+                option_dict = self.distribution.get_option_dict('build_sphinx')
+                source_dir = os.path.join(option_dict['source_dir'][1], 'api')
+                if not os.path.exists(source_dir):
+                    os.makedirs(source_dir)
+                for pkg in self.distribution.packages:
+                    if '.' not in pkg:
+                        os.path.walk(pkg, _find_modules, modules)
+                module_list = modules.keys()
+                module_list.sort()
+                autoindex_filename = os.path.join(source_dir, 'autoindex.rst')
+                with open(autoindex_filename, 'w') as autoindex:
+                    autoindex.write(""".. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 1
+
+""")
+                    for module in module_list:
+                        output_filename = os.path.join(source_dir,
+                                                       "%s.rst" % module)
+                        heading = "The :mod:`%s` Module" % module
+                        underline = "=" * len(heading)
+                        values = dict(module=module, heading=heading,
+                                      underline=underline)
+
+                        print "Generating %s" % output_filename
+                        with open(output_filename, 'w') as output_file:
+                            output_file.write(_rst_template % values)
+                        autoindex.write("   %s.rst\n" % module)
+
+            def run(self):
+                if not os.getenv('SPHINX_DEBUG'):
+                    self.generate_autoindex()
+
+                for builder in self.builders:
+                    self.builder = builder
+                    self.finalize_options()
+                    self.project = self.distribution.get_name()
+                    self.version = self.distribution.get_version()
+                    self.release = self.distribution.get_version()
+                    BuildDoc.run(self)
+
+        class LocalBuildLatex(LocalBuildDoc):
+            builders = ['latex']
+
+        cmdclass['build_sphinx'] = LocalBuildDoc
+        cmdclass['build_sphinx_latex'] = LocalBuildLatex
+    except ImportError:
+        pass
+
+    return cmdclass
+
+
+def _get_revno(git_dir):
+    """Return the number of commits since the most recent tag.
+
+    We use git-describe to find this out, but if there are no
+    tags then we fall back to counting commits since the beginning
+    of time.
+    """
+    describe = _run_shell_command(
+        "git --git-dir=%s describe --always" % git_dir)
+    if "-" in describe:
+        return describe.rsplit("-", 2)[-2]
+
+    # no tags found
+    revlist = _run_shell_command(
+        "git --git-dir=%s rev-list --abbrev-commit HEAD" % git_dir)
+    return len(revlist.splitlines())
+
+
+def _get_version_from_git(pre_version):
+    """Return a version which is equal to the tag that's on the current
+    revision if there is one, or tag plus number of additional revisions
+    if the current revision has no tag."""
+
+    git_dir = _get_git_directory()
+    if git_dir:
+        if pre_version:
+            try:
+                return _run_shell_command(
+                    "git --git-dir=" + git_dir + " describe --exact-match",
+                    throw_on_error=True).replace('-', '.')
+            except Exception:
+                sha = _run_shell_command(
+                    "git --git-dir=" + git_dir + " log -n1 --pretty=format:%h")
+                return "%s.a%s.g%s" % (pre_version, _get_revno(git_dir), sha)
+        else:
+            return _run_shell_command(
+                "git --git-dir=" + git_dir + " describe --always").replace(
+                    '-', '.')
+    return None
+
+
+def _get_version_from_pkg_info(package_name):
+    """Get the version from PKG-INFO file if we can."""
+    try:
+        pkg_info_file = open('PKG-INFO', 'r')
+    except (IOError, OSError):
+        return None
+    try:
+        pkg_info = email.message_from_file(pkg_info_file)
+    except email.MessageError:
+        return None
+    # Check to make sure we're in our own dir
+    if pkg_info.get('Name', None) != package_name:
+        return None
+    return pkg_info.get('Version', None)
+
+
+def get_version(package_name, pre_version=None):
+    """Get the version of the project. First, try getting it from PKG-INFO, if
+    it exists. If it does, that means we're in a distribution tarball or that
+    install has happened. Otherwise, if there is no PKG-INFO file, pull the
+    version from git.
+
+    We do not support setup.py version sanity in git archive tarballs, nor do
+    we support packagers directly sucking our git repo into theirs. We expect
+    that a source tarball be made from our git repo - or that if someone wants
+    to make a source tarball from a fork of our repo with additional tags in it
+    that they understand and desire the results of doing that.
+    """
+    version = os.environ.get("OSLO_PACKAGE_VERSION", None)
+    if version:
+        return version
+    version = _get_version_from_pkg_info(package_name)
+    if version:
+        return version
+    version = _get_version_from_git(pre_version)
+    if version:
+        return version
+    raise Exception("Versioning for this project requires either an sdist"
+                    " tarball, or access to an upstream git repository.")
diff --git a/portas/portas/openstack/common/sslutils.py b/portas/portas/openstack/common/sslutils.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..77f174c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/openstack/common/sslutils.py
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+# vim: tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4
+
+# Copyright 2013 IBM
+#
+#    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.
+
+import os
+import ssl
+
+from oslo.config import cfg
+
+from portas.openstack.common.gettextutils import _
+
+
+ssl_opts = [
+    cfg.StrOpt('ca_file',
+               default=None,
+               help="CA certificate file to use to verify "
+                    "connecting clients"),
+    cfg.StrOpt('cert_file',
+               default=None,
+               help="Certificate file to use when starting "
+                    "the server securely"),
+    cfg.StrOpt('key_file',
+               default=None,
+               help="Private key file to use when starting "
+                    "the server securely"),
+]
+
+
+CONF = cfg.CONF
+CONF.register_opts(ssl_opts, "ssl")
+
+
+def is_enabled():
+    cert_file = CONF.ssl.cert_file
+    key_file = CONF.ssl.key_file
+    ca_file = CONF.ssl.ca_file
+    use_ssl = cert_file or key_file
+
+    if cert_file and not os.path.exists(cert_file):
+        raise RuntimeError(_("Unable to find cert_file : %s") % cert_file)
+
+    if ca_file and not os.path.exists(ca_file):
+        raise RuntimeError(_("Unable to find ca_file : %s") % ca_file)
+
+    if key_file and not os.path.exists(key_file):
+        raise RuntimeError(_("Unable to find key_file : %s") % key_file)
+
+    if use_ssl and (not cert_file or not key_file):
+        raise RuntimeError(_("When running server in SSL mode, you must "
+                             "specify both a cert_file and key_file "
+                             "option value in your configuration file"))
+
+    return use_ssl
+
+
+def wrap(sock):
+    ssl_kwargs = {
+        'server_side': True,
+        'certfile': CONF.ssl.cert_file,
+        'keyfile': CONF.ssl.key_file,
+        'cert_reqs': ssl.CERT_NONE,
+    }
+
+    if CONF.ssl.ca_file:
+        ssl_kwargs['ca_certs'] = CONF.ssl.ca_file
+        ssl_kwargs['cert_reqs'] = ssl.CERT_REQUIRED
+
+    return ssl.wrap_socket(sock, **ssl_kwargs)
diff --git a/portas/portas/openstack/common/threadgroup.py b/portas/portas/openstack/common/threadgroup.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1835ac79
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/openstack/common/threadgroup.py
@@ -0,0 +1,114 @@
+# vim: tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4
+
+# Copyright 2012 Red Hat, Inc.
+#
+#    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.
+
+from eventlet import greenlet
+from eventlet import greenpool
+from eventlet import greenthread
+
+from portas.openstack.common import log as logging
+from portas.openstack.common import loopingcall
+
+
+LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+def _thread_done(gt, *args, **kwargs):
+    """ Callback function to be passed to GreenThread.link() when we spawn()
+    Calls the :class:`ThreadGroup` to notify if.
+
+    """
+    kwargs['group'].thread_done(kwargs['thread'])
+
+
+class Thread(object):
+    """ Wrapper around a greenthread, that holds a reference to the
+    :class:`ThreadGroup`. The Thread will notify the :class:`ThreadGroup` when
+    it has done so it can be removed from the threads list.
+    """
+    def __init__(self, thread, group):
+        self.thread = thread
+        self.thread.link(_thread_done, group=group, thread=self)
+
+    def stop(self):
+        self.thread.kill()
+
+    def wait(self):
+        return self.thread.wait()
+
+
+class ThreadGroup(object):
+    """ The point of the ThreadGroup classis to:
+
+    * keep track of timers and greenthreads (making it easier to stop them
+      when need be).
+    * provide an easy API to add timers.
+    """
+    def __init__(self, thread_pool_size=10):
+        self.pool = greenpool.GreenPool(thread_pool_size)
+        self.threads = []
+        self.timers = []
+
+    def add_timer(self, interval, callback, initial_delay=None,
+                  *args, **kwargs):
+        pulse = loopingcall.LoopingCall(callback, *args, **kwargs)
+        pulse.start(interval=interval,
+                    initial_delay=initial_delay)
+        self.timers.append(pulse)
+
+    def add_thread(self, callback, *args, **kwargs):
+        gt = self.pool.spawn(callback, *args, **kwargs)
+        th = Thread(gt, self)
+        self.threads.append(th)
+
+    def thread_done(self, thread):
+        self.threads.remove(thread)
+
+    def stop(self):
+        current = greenthread.getcurrent()
+        for x in self.threads:
+            if x is current:
+                # don't kill the current thread.
+                continue
+            try:
+                x.stop()
+            except Exception as ex:
+                LOG.exception(ex)
+
+        for x in self.timers:
+            try:
+                x.stop()
+            except Exception as ex:
+                LOG.exception(ex)
+        self.timers = []
+
+    def wait(self):
+        for x in self.timers:
+            try:
+                x.wait()
+            except greenlet.GreenletExit:
+                pass
+            except Exception as ex:
+                LOG.exception(ex)
+        current = greenthread.getcurrent()
+        for x in self.threads:
+            if x is current:
+                continue
+            try:
+                x.wait()
+            except greenlet.GreenletExit:
+                pass
+            except Exception as ex:
+                LOG.exception(ex)
diff --git a/portas/portas/openstack/common/timeutils.py b/portas/portas/openstack/common/timeutils.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e2c27405
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/openstack/common/timeutils.py
@@ -0,0 +1,182 @@
+# vim: tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4
+
+# Copyright 2011 OpenStack LLC.
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    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.
+
+"""
+Time related utilities and helper functions.
+"""
+
+import calendar
+import datetime
+
+import iso8601
+
+
+TIME_FORMAT = "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S"
+PERFECT_TIME_FORMAT = "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%f"
+
+
+def isotime(at=None):
+    """Stringify time in ISO 8601 format"""
+    if not at:
+        at = utcnow()
+    str = at.strftime(TIME_FORMAT)
+    tz = at.tzinfo.tzname(None) if at.tzinfo else 'UTC'
+    str += ('Z' if tz == 'UTC' else tz)
+    return str
+
+
+def parse_isotime(timestr):
+    """Parse time from ISO 8601 format"""
+    try:
+        return iso8601.parse_date(timestr)
+    except iso8601.ParseError as e:
+        raise ValueError(e.message)
+    except TypeError as e:
+        raise ValueError(e.message)
+
+
+def strtime(at=None, fmt=PERFECT_TIME_FORMAT):
+    """Returns formatted utcnow."""
+    if not at:
+        at = utcnow()
+    return at.strftime(fmt)
+
+
+def parse_strtime(timestr, fmt=PERFECT_TIME_FORMAT):
+    """Turn a formatted time back into a datetime."""
+    return datetime.datetime.strptime(timestr, fmt)
+
+
+def normalize_time(timestamp):
+    """Normalize time in arbitrary timezone to UTC naive object"""
+    offset = timestamp.utcoffset()
+    if offset is None:
+        return timestamp
+    return timestamp.replace(tzinfo=None) - offset
+
+
+def is_older_than(before, seconds):
+    """Return True if before is older than seconds."""
+    if isinstance(before, basestring):
+        before = parse_strtime(before).replace(tzinfo=None)
+    return utcnow() - before > datetime.timedelta(seconds=seconds)
+
+
+def is_newer_than(after, seconds):
+    """Return True if after is newer than seconds."""
+    if isinstance(after, basestring):
+        after = parse_strtime(after).replace(tzinfo=None)
+    return after - utcnow() > datetime.timedelta(seconds=seconds)
+
+
+def utcnow_ts():
+    """Timestamp version of our utcnow function."""
+    return calendar.timegm(utcnow().timetuple())
+
+
+def utcnow():
+    """Overridable version of utils.utcnow."""
+    if utcnow.override_time:
+        try:
+            return utcnow.override_time.pop(0)
+        except AttributeError:
+            return utcnow.override_time
+    return datetime.datetime.utcnow()
+
+
+def iso8601_from_timestamp(timestamp):
+    """Returns a iso8601 formated date from timestamp"""
+    return isotime(datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(timestamp))
+
+
+utcnow.override_time = None
+
+
+def set_time_override(override_time=datetime.datetime.utcnow()):
+    """
+    Override utils.utcnow to return a constant time or a list thereof,
+    one at a time.
+    """
+    utcnow.override_time = override_time
+
+
+def advance_time_delta(timedelta):
+    """Advance overridden time using a datetime.timedelta."""
+    assert(not utcnow.override_time is None)
+    try:
+        for dt in utcnow.override_time:
+            dt += timedelta
+    except TypeError:
+        utcnow.override_time += timedelta
+
+
+def advance_time_seconds(seconds):
+    """Advance overridden time by seconds."""
+    advance_time_delta(datetime.timedelta(0, seconds))
+
+
+def clear_time_override():
+    """Remove the overridden time."""
+    utcnow.override_time = None
+
+
+def marshall_now(now=None):
+    """Make an rpc-safe datetime with microseconds.
+
+    Note: tzinfo is stripped, but not required for relative times."""
+    if not now:
+        now = utcnow()
+    return dict(day=now.day, month=now.month, year=now.year, hour=now.hour,
+                minute=now.minute, second=now.second,
+                microsecond=now.microsecond)
+
+
+def unmarshall_time(tyme):
+    """Unmarshall a datetime dict."""
+    return datetime.datetime(day=tyme['day'],
+                             month=tyme['month'],
+                             year=tyme['year'],
+                             hour=tyme['hour'],
+                             minute=tyme['minute'],
+                             second=tyme['second'],
+                             microsecond=tyme['microsecond'])
+
+
+def delta_seconds(before, after):
+    """
+    Compute the difference in seconds between two date, time, or
+    datetime objects (as a float, to microsecond resolution).
+    """
+    delta = after - before
+    try:
+        return delta.total_seconds()
+    except AttributeError:
+        return ((delta.days * 24 * 3600) + delta.seconds +
+                float(delta.microseconds) / (10 ** 6))
+
+
+def is_soon(dt, window):
+    """
+    Determines if time is going to happen in the next window seconds.
+
+    :params dt: the time
+    :params window: minimum seconds to remain to consider the time not soon
+
+    :return: True if expiration is within the given duration
+    """
+    soon = (utcnow() + datetime.timedelta(seconds=window))
+    return normalize_time(dt) <= soon
diff --git a/portas/portas/openstack/common/uuidutils.py b/portas/portas/openstack/common/uuidutils.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7608acb9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/openstack/common/uuidutils.py
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# vim: tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4
+
+# Copyright (c) 2012 Intel Corporation.
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    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.
+
+"""
+UUID related utilities and helper functions.
+"""
+
+import uuid
+
+
+def generate_uuid():
+    return str(uuid.uuid4())
+
+
+def is_uuid_like(val):
+    """Returns validation of a value as a UUID.
+
+    For our purposes, a UUID is a canonical form string:
+    aaaaaaaa-aaaa-aaaa-aaaa-aaaaaaaaaaaa
+
+    """
+    try:
+        return str(uuid.UUID(val)) == val
+    except (TypeError, ValueError, AttributeError):
+        return False
diff --git a/portas/portas/openstack/common/version.py b/portas/portas/openstack/common/version.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5c74fd27
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/openstack/common/version.py
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+
+#    Copyright 2012 OpenStack LLC
+#    Copyright 2012-2013 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
+#
+#    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.
+
+"""
+Utilities for consuming the version from pkg_resources.
+"""
+
+import pkg_resources
+
+
+class VersionInfo(object):
+
+    def __init__(self, package):
+        """Object that understands versioning for a package
+        :param package: name of the python package, such as glance, or
+                        python-glanceclient
+        """
+        self.package = package
+        self.release = None
+        self.version = None
+        self._cached_version = None
+
+    def __str__(self):
+        """Make the VersionInfo object behave like a string."""
+        return self.version_string()
+
+    def __repr__(self):
+        """Include the name."""
+        return "VersionInfo(%s:%s)" % (self.package, self.version_string())
+
+    def _get_version_from_pkg_resources(self):
+        """Get the version of the package from the pkg_resources record
+        associated with the package."""
+        try:
+            requirement = pkg_resources.Requirement.parse(self.package)
+            provider = pkg_resources.get_provider(requirement)
+            return provider.version
+        except pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound:
+            # The most likely cause for this is running tests in a tree
+            # produced from a tarball where the package itself has not been
+            # installed into anything. Revert to setup-time logic.
+            from portas.openstack.common import setup
+            return setup.get_version(self.package)
+
+    def release_string(self):
+        """Return the full version of the package including suffixes indicating
+        VCS status.
+        """
+        if self.release is None:
+            self.release = self._get_version_from_pkg_resources()
+
+        return self.release
+
+    def version_string(self):
+        """Return the short version minus any alpha/beta tags."""
+        if self.version is None:
+            parts = []
+            for part in self.release_string().split('.'):
+                if part[0].isdigit():
+                    parts.append(part)
+                else:
+                    break
+            self.version = ".".join(parts)
+
+        return self.version
+
+    # Compatibility functions
+    canonical_version_string = version_string
+    version_string_with_vcs = release_string
+
+    def cached_version_string(self, prefix=""):
+        """Generate an object which will expand in a string context to
+        the results of version_string(). We do this so that don't
+        call into pkg_resources every time we start up a program when
+        passing version information into the CONF constructor, but
+        rather only do the calculation when and if a version is requested
+        """
+        if not self._cached_version:
+            self._cached_version = "%s%s" % (prefix,
+                                             self.version_string())
+        return self._cached_version
diff --git a/portas/portas/openstack/common/wsgi.py b/portas/portas/openstack/common/wsgi.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4dd43e6c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/openstack/common/wsgi.py
@@ -0,0 +1,797 @@
+# vim: tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4
+
+# Copyright 2011 OpenStack LLC.
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    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.
+
+"""Utility methods for working with WSGI servers."""
+
+import eventlet
+eventlet.patcher.monkey_patch(all=False, socket=True)
+
+import datetime
+import errno
+import socket
+import sys
+import time
+
+import eventlet.wsgi
+from oslo.config import cfg
+import routes
+import routes.middleware
+import webob.dec
+import webob.exc
+from xml.dom import minidom
+from xml.parsers import expat
+
+from portas.openstack.common import exception
+from portas.openstack.common.gettextutils import _
+from portas.openstack.common import jsonutils
+from portas.openstack.common import log as logging
+from portas.openstack.common import service
+from portas.openstack.common import sslutils
+from portas.openstack.common import xmlutils
+
+socket_opts = [
+    cfg.IntOpt('backlog',
+               default=4096,
+               help="Number of backlog requests to configure the socket with"),
+    cfg.IntOpt('tcp_keepidle',
+               default=600,
+               help="Sets the value of TCP_KEEPIDLE in seconds for each "
+                    "server socket. Not supported on OS X."),
+]
+
+CONF = cfg.CONF
+CONF.register_opts(socket_opts)
+
+LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+def run_server(application, port):
+    """Run a WSGI server with the given application."""
+    sock = eventlet.listen(('0.0.0.0', port))
+    eventlet.wsgi.server(sock, application)
+
+
+class Service(service.Service):
+    """
+    Provides a Service API for wsgi servers.
+
+    This gives us the ability to launch wsgi servers with the
+    Launcher classes in service.py.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, application, port,
+                 host='0.0.0.0', backlog=4096, threads=1000):
+        self.application = application
+        self._port = port
+        self._host = host
+        self._backlog = backlog if backlog else CONF.backlog
+        super(Service, self).__init__(threads)
+
+    def _get_socket(self, host, port, backlog):
+        # TODO(dims): eventlet's green dns/socket module does not actually
+        # support IPv6 in getaddrinfo(). We need to get around this in the
+        # future or monitor upstream for a fix
+        info = socket.getaddrinfo(host,
+                                  port,
+                                  socket.AF_UNSPEC,
+                                  socket.SOCK_STREAM)[0]
+        family = info[0]
+        bind_addr = info[-1]
+
+        sock = None
+        retry_until = time.time() + 30
+        while not sock and time.time() < retry_until:
+            try:
+                sock = eventlet.listen(bind_addr,
+                                       backlog=backlog,
+                                       family=family)
+                if sslutils.is_enabled():
+                    sock = sslutils.wrap(sock)
+
+            except socket.error, err:
+                if err.args[0] != errno.EADDRINUSE:
+                    raise
+                eventlet.sleep(0.1)
+        if not sock:
+            raise RuntimeError(_("Could not bind to %(host)s:%(port)s "
+                               "after trying for 30 seconds") %
+                               {'host': host, 'port': port})
+        sock.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1)
+        # sockets can hang around forever without keepalive
+        sock.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_KEEPALIVE, 1)
+
+        # This option isn't available in the OS X version of eventlet
+        if hasattr(socket, 'TCP_KEEPIDLE'):
+            sock.setsockopt(socket.IPPROTO_TCP,
+                            socket.TCP_KEEPIDLE,
+                            CONF.tcp_keepidle)
+
+        return sock
+
+    def start(self):
+        """Start serving this service using the provided server instance.
+
+        :returns: None
+
+        """
+        super(Service, self).start()
+        self._socket = self._get_socket(self._host, self._port, self._backlog)
+        self.tg.add_thread(self._run, self.application, self._socket)
+
+    @property
+    def backlog(self):
+        return self._backlog
+
+    @property
+    def host(self):
+        return self._socket.getsockname()[0] if self._socket else self._host
+
+    @property
+    def port(self):
+        return self._socket.getsockname()[1] if self._socket else self._port
+
+    def stop(self):
+        """Stop serving this API.
+
+        :returns: None
+
+        """
+        super(Service, self).stop()
+
+    def _run(self, application, socket):
+        """Start a WSGI server in a new green thread."""
+        logger = logging.getLogger('eventlet.wsgi')
+        eventlet.wsgi.server(socket,
+                             application,
+                             custom_pool=self.tg.pool,
+                             log=logging.WritableLogger(logger))
+
+
+class Middleware(object):
+    """
+    Base WSGI middleware wrapper. These classes require an application to be
+    initialized that will be called next.  By default the middleware will
+    simply call its wrapped app, or you can override __call__ to customize its
+    behavior.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, application):
+        self.application = application
+
+    def process_request(self, req):
+        """
+        Called on each request.
+
+        If this returns None, the next application down the stack will be
+        executed. If it returns a response then that response will be returned
+        and execution will stop here.
+        """
+        return None
+
+    def process_response(self, response):
+        """Do whatever you'd like to the response."""
+        return response
+
+    @webob.dec.wsgify
+    def __call__(self, req):
+        response = self.process_request(req)
+        if response:
+            return response
+        response = req.get_response(self.application)
+        return self.process_response(response)
+
+
+class Debug(Middleware):
+    """
+    Helper class that can be inserted into any WSGI application chain
+    to get information about the request and response.
+    """
+
+    @webob.dec.wsgify
+    def __call__(self, req):
+        print ("*" * 40) + " REQUEST ENVIRON"
+        for key, value in req.environ.items():
+            print key, "=", value
+        print
+        resp = req.get_response(self.application)
+
+        print ("*" * 40) + " RESPONSE HEADERS"
+        for (key, value) in resp.headers.iteritems():
+            print key, "=", value
+        print
+
+        resp.app_iter = self.print_generator(resp.app_iter)
+
+        return resp
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def print_generator(app_iter):
+        """
+        Iterator that prints the contents of a wrapper string iterator
+        when iterated.
+        """
+        print ("*" * 40) + " BODY"
+        for part in app_iter:
+            sys.stdout.write(part)
+            sys.stdout.flush()
+            yield part
+        print
+
+
+class Router(object):
+
+    """
+    WSGI middleware that maps incoming requests to WSGI apps.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, mapper):
+        """
+        Create a router for the given routes.Mapper.
+
+        Each route in `mapper` must specify a 'controller', which is a
+        WSGI app to call.  You'll probably want to specify an 'action' as
+        well and have your controller be a wsgi.Controller, who will route
+        the request to the action method.
+
+        Examples:
+          mapper = routes.Mapper()
+          sc = ServerController()
+
+          # Explicit mapping of one route to a controller+action
+          mapper.connect(None, "/svrlist", controller=sc, action="list")
+
+          # Actions are all implicitly defined
+          mapper.resource("server", "servers", controller=sc)
+
+          # Pointing to an arbitrary WSGI app.  You can specify the
+          # {path_info:.*} parameter so the target app can be handed just that
+          # section of the URL.
+          mapper.connect(None, "/v1.0/{path_info:.*}", controller=BlogApp())
+        """
+        self.map = mapper
+        self._router = routes.middleware.RoutesMiddleware(self._dispatch,
+                                                          self.map)
+
+    @webob.dec.wsgify
+    def __call__(self, req):
+        """
+        Route the incoming request to a controller based on self.map.
+        If no match, return a 404.
+        """
+        return self._router
+
+    @staticmethod
+    @webob.dec.wsgify
+    def _dispatch(req):
+        """
+        Called by self._router after matching the incoming request to a route
+        and putting the information into req.environ.  Either returns 404
+        or the routed WSGI app's response.
+        """
+        match = req.environ['wsgiorg.routing_args'][1]
+        if not match:
+            return webob.exc.HTTPNotFound()
+        app = match['controller']
+        return app
+
+
+class Request(webob.Request):
+    """Add some Openstack API-specific logic to the base webob.Request."""
+
+    default_request_content_types = ('application/json', 'application/xml')
+    default_accept_types = ('application/json', 'application/xml')
+    default_accept_type = 'application/json'
+
+    def best_match_content_type(self, supported_content_types=None):
+        """Determine the requested response content-type.
+
+        Based on the query extension then the Accept header.
+        Defaults to default_accept_type if we don't find a preference
+
+        """
+        supported_content_types = (supported_content_types or
+                                   self.default_accept_types)
+
+        parts = self.path.rsplit('.', 1)
+        if len(parts) > 1:
+            ctype = 'application/{0}'.format(parts[1])
+            if ctype in supported_content_types:
+                return ctype
+
+        bm = self.accept.best_match(supported_content_types)
+        return bm or self.default_accept_type
+
+    def get_content_type(self, allowed_content_types=None):
+        """Determine content type of the request body.
+
+        Does not do any body introspection, only checks header
+
+        """
+        if "Content-Type" not in self.headers:
+            return None
+
+        content_type = self.content_type
+        allowed_content_types = (allowed_content_types or
+                                 self.default_request_content_types)
+
+        if content_type not in allowed_content_types:
+            raise exception.InvalidContentType(content_type=content_type)
+        return content_type
+
+
+class Resource(object):
+    """
+    WSGI app that handles (de)serialization and controller dispatch.
+
+    Reads routing information supplied by RoutesMiddleware and calls
+    the requested action method upon its deserializer, controller,
+    and serializer. Those three objects may implement any of the basic
+    controller action methods (create, update, show, index, delete)
+    along with any that may be specified in the api router. A 'default'
+    method may also be implemented to be used in place of any
+    non-implemented actions. Deserializer methods must accept a request
+    argument and return a dictionary. Controller methods must accept a
+    request argument. Additionally, they must also accept keyword
+    arguments that represent the keys returned by the Deserializer. They
+    may raise a webob.exc exception or return a dict, which will be
+    serialized by requested content type.
+    """
+    def __init__(self, controller, deserializer=None, serializer=None):
+        """
+        :param controller: object that implement methods created by routes lib
+        :param deserializer: object that supports webob request deserialization
+                             through controller-like actions
+        :param serializer: object that supports webob response serialization
+                           through controller-like actions
+        """
+        self.controller = controller
+        self.serializer = serializer or ResponseSerializer()
+        self.deserializer = deserializer or RequestDeserializer()
+
+    @webob.dec.wsgify(RequestClass=Request)
+    def __call__(self, request):
+        """WSGI method that controls (de)serialization and method dispatch."""
+
+        try:
+            action, action_args, accept = self.deserialize_request(request)
+        except exception.InvalidContentType:
+            msg = _("Unsupported Content-Type")
+            return webob.exc.HTTPUnsupportedMediaType(explanation=msg)
+        except exception.MalformedRequestBody:
+            msg = _("Malformed request body")
+            return webob.exc.HTTPBadRequest(explanation=msg)
+
+        action_result = self.execute_action(action, request, **action_args)
+        try:
+            return self.serialize_response(action, action_result, accept)
+        # return unserializable result (typically a webob exc)
+        except Exception:
+            return action_result
+
+    def deserialize_request(self, request):
+        return self.deserializer.deserialize(request)
+
+    def serialize_response(self, action, action_result, accept):
+        return self.serializer.serialize(action_result, accept, action)
+
+    def execute_action(self, action, request, **action_args):
+        return self.dispatch(self.controller, action, request, **action_args)
+
+    def dispatch(self, obj, action, *args, **kwargs):
+        """Find action-specific method on self and call it."""
+        try:
+            method = getattr(obj, action)
+        except AttributeError:
+            method = getattr(obj, 'default')
+
+        return method(*args, **kwargs)
+
+    def get_action_args(self, request_environment):
+        """Parse dictionary created by routes library."""
+        try:
+            args = request_environment['wsgiorg.routing_args'][1].copy()
+        except Exception:
+            return {}
+
+        try:
+            del args['controller']
+        except KeyError:
+            pass
+
+        try:
+            del args['format']
+        except KeyError:
+            pass
+
+        return args
+
+
+class ActionDispatcher(object):
+    """Maps method name to local methods through action name."""
+
+    def dispatch(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        """Find and call local method."""
+        action = kwargs.pop('action', 'default')
+        action_method = getattr(self, str(action), self.default)
+        return action_method(*args, **kwargs)
+
+    def default(self, data):
+        raise NotImplementedError()
+
+
+class DictSerializer(ActionDispatcher):
+    """Default request body serialization"""
+
+    def serialize(self, data, action='default'):
+        return self.dispatch(data, action=action)
+
+    def default(self, data):
+        return ""
+
+
+class JSONDictSerializer(DictSerializer):
+    """Default JSON request body serialization"""
+
+    def default(self, data):
+        def sanitizer(obj):
+            if isinstance(obj, datetime.datetime):
+                _dtime = obj - datetime.timedelta(microseconds=obj.microsecond)
+                return _dtime.isoformat()
+            return unicode(obj)
+        return jsonutils.dumps(data, default=sanitizer)
+
+
+class XMLDictSerializer(DictSerializer):
+
+    def __init__(self, metadata=None, xmlns=None):
+        """
+        :param metadata: information needed to deserialize xml into
+                         a dictionary.
+        :param xmlns: XML namespace to include with serialized xml
+        """
+        super(XMLDictSerializer, self).__init__()
+        self.metadata = metadata or {}
+        self.xmlns = xmlns
+
+    def default(self, data):
+        # We expect data to contain a single key which is the XML root.
+        root_key = data.keys()[0]
+        doc = minidom.Document()
+        node = self._to_xml_node(doc, self.metadata, root_key, data[root_key])
+
+        return self.to_xml_string(node)
+
+    def to_xml_string(self, node, has_atom=False):
+        self._add_xmlns(node, has_atom)
+        return node.toprettyxml(indent='    ', encoding='UTF-8')
+
+    #NOTE (ameade): the has_atom should be removed after all of the
+    # xml serializers and view builders have been updated to the current
+    # spec that required all responses include the xmlns:atom, the has_atom
+    # flag is to prevent current tests from breaking
+    def _add_xmlns(self, node, has_atom=False):
+        if self.xmlns is not None:
+            node.setAttribute('xmlns', self.xmlns)
+        if has_atom:
+            node.setAttribute('xmlns:atom', "http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom")
+
+    def _to_xml_node(self, doc, metadata, nodename, data):
+        """Recursive method to convert data members to XML nodes."""
+        result = doc.createElement(nodename)
+
+        # Set the xml namespace if one is specified
+        # TODO(justinsb): We could also use prefixes on the keys
+        xmlns = metadata.get('xmlns', None)
+        if xmlns:
+            result.setAttribute('xmlns', xmlns)
+
+        #TODO(bcwaldon): accomplish this without a type-check
+        if type(data) is list:
+            collections = metadata.get('list_collections', {})
+            if nodename in collections:
+                metadata = collections[nodename]
+                for item in data:
+                    node = doc.createElement(metadata['item_name'])
+                    node.setAttribute(metadata['item_key'], str(item))
+                    result.appendChild(node)
+                return result
+            singular = metadata.get('plurals', {}).get(nodename, None)
+            if singular is None:
+                if nodename.endswith('s'):
+                    singular = nodename[:-1]
+                else:
+                    singular = 'item'
+            for item in data:
+                node = self._to_xml_node(doc, metadata, singular, item)
+                result.appendChild(node)
+        #TODO(bcwaldon): accomplish this without a type-check
+        elif type(data) is dict:
+            collections = metadata.get('dict_collections', {})
+            if nodename in collections:
+                metadata = collections[nodename]
+                for k, v in data.items():
+                    node = doc.createElement(metadata['item_name'])
+                    node.setAttribute(metadata['item_key'], str(k))
+                    text = doc.createTextNode(str(v))
+                    node.appendChild(text)
+                    result.appendChild(node)
+                return result
+            attrs = metadata.get('attributes', {}).get(nodename, {})
+            for k, v in data.items():
+                if k in attrs:
+                    result.setAttribute(k, str(v))
+                else:
+                    node = self._to_xml_node(doc, metadata, k, v)
+                    result.appendChild(node)
+        else:
+            # Type is atom
+            node = doc.createTextNode(str(data))
+            result.appendChild(node)
+        return result
+
+    def _create_link_nodes(self, xml_doc, links):
+        link_nodes = []
+        for link in links:
+            link_node = xml_doc.createElement('atom:link')
+            link_node.setAttribute('rel', link['rel'])
+            link_node.setAttribute('href', link['href'])
+            if 'type' in link:
+                link_node.setAttribute('type', link['type'])
+            link_nodes.append(link_node)
+        return link_nodes
+
+
+class ResponseHeadersSerializer(ActionDispatcher):
+    """Default response headers serialization"""
+
+    def serialize(self, response, data, action):
+        self.dispatch(response, data, action=action)
+
+    def default(self, response, data):
+        response.status_int = 200
+
+
+class ResponseSerializer(object):
+    """Encode the necessary pieces into a response object"""
+
+    def __init__(self, body_serializers=None, headers_serializer=None):
+        self.body_serializers = {
+            'application/xml': XMLDictSerializer(),
+            'application/json': JSONDictSerializer(),
+        }
+        self.body_serializers.update(body_serializers or {})
+
+        self.headers_serializer = (headers_serializer or
+                                   ResponseHeadersSerializer())
+
+    def serialize(self, response_data, content_type, action='default'):
+        """Serialize a dict into a string and wrap in a wsgi.Request object.
+
+        :param response_data: dict produced by the Controller
+        :param content_type: expected mimetype of serialized response body
+
+        """
+        response = webob.Response()
+        self.serialize_headers(response, response_data, action)
+        self.serialize_body(response, response_data, content_type, action)
+        return response
+
+    def serialize_headers(self, response, data, action):
+        self.headers_serializer.serialize(response, data, action)
+
+    def serialize_body(self, response, data, content_type, action):
+        response.headers['Content-Type'] = content_type
+        if data is not None:
+            serializer = self.get_body_serializer(content_type)
+            response.body = serializer.serialize(data, action)
+
+    def get_body_serializer(self, content_type):
+        try:
+            return self.body_serializers[content_type]
+        except (KeyError, TypeError):
+            raise exception.InvalidContentType(content_type=content_type)
+
+
+class RequestHeadersDeserializer(ActionDispatcher):
+    """Default request headers deserializer"""
+
+    def deserialize(self, request, action):
+        return self.dispatch(request, action=action)
+
+    def default(self, request):
+        return {}
+
+
+class RequestDeserializer(object):
+    """Break up a Request object into more useful pieces."""
+
+    def __init__(self, body_deserializers=None, headers_deserializer=None,
+                 supported_content_types=None):
+
+        self.supported_content_types = supported_content_types
+
+        self.body_deserializers = {
+            'application/xml': XMLDeserializer(),
+            'application/json': JSONDeserializer(),
+        }
+        self.body_deserializers.update(body_deserializers or {})
+
+        self.headers_deserializer = (headers_deserializer or
+                                     RequestHeadersDeserializer())
+
+    def deserialize(self, request):
+        """Extract necessary pieces of the request.
+
+        :param request: Request object
+        :returns: tuple of (expected controller action name, dictionary of
+                  keyword arguments to pass to the controller, the expected
+                  content type of the response)
+
+        """
+        action_args = self.get_action_args(request.environ)
+        action = action_args.pop('action', None)
+
+        action_args.update(self.deserialize_headers(request, action))
+        action_args.update(self.deserialize_body(request, action))
+
+        accept = self.get_expected_content_type(request)
+
+        return (action, action_args, accept)
+
+    def deserialize_headers(self, request, action):
+        return self.headers_deserializer.deserialize(request, action)
+
+    def deserialize_body(self, request, action):
+        if not len(request.body) > 0:
+            LOG.debug(_("Empty body provided in request"))
+            return {}
+
+        try:
+            content_type = request.get_content_type()
+        except exception.InvalidContentType:
+            LOG.debug(_("Unrecognized Content-Type provided in request"))
+            raise
+
+        if content_type is None:
+            LOG.debug(_("No Content-Type provided in request"))
+            return {}
+
+        try:
+            deserializer = self.get_body_deserializer(content_type)
+        except exception.InvalidContentType:
+            LOG.debug(_("Unable to deserialize body as provided Content-Type"))
+            raise
+
+        return deserializer.deserialize(request.body, action)
+
+    def get_body_deserializer(self, content_type):
+        try:
+            return self.body_deserializers[content_type]
+        except (KeyError, TypeError):
+            raise exception.InvalidContentType(content_type=content_type)
+
+    def get_expected_content_type(self, request):
+        return request.best_match_content_type(self.supported_content_types)
+
+    def get_action_args(self, request_environment):
+        """Parse dictionary created by routes library."""
+        try:
+            args = request_environment['wsgiorg.routing_args'][1].copy()
+        except Exception:
+            return {}
+
+        try:
+            del args['controller']
+        except KeyError:
+            pass
+
+        try:
+            del args['format']
+        except KeyError:
+            pass
+
+        return args
+
+
+class TextDeserializer(ActionDispatcher):
+    """Default request body deserialization"""
+
+    def deserialize(self, datastring, action='default'):
+        return self.dispatch(datastring, action=action)
+
+    def default(self, datastring):
+        return {}
+
+
+class JSONDeserializer(TextDeserializer):
+
+    def _from_json(self, datastring):
+        try:
+            return jsonutils.loads(datastring)
+        except ValueError:
+            msg = _("cannot understand JSON")
+            raise exception.MalformedRequestBody(reason=msg)
+
+    def default(self, datastring):
+        return {'body': self._from_json(datastring)}
+
+
+class XMLDeserializer(TextDeserializer):
+
+    def __init__(self, metadata=None):
+        """
+        :param metadata: information needed to deserialize xml into
+                         a dictionary.
+        """
+        super(XMLDeserializer, self).__init__()
+        self.metadata = metadata or {}
+
+    def _from_xml(self, datastring):
+        plurals = set(self.metadata.get('plurals', {}))
+
+        try:
+            node = xmlutils.safe_minidom_parse_string(datastring).childNodes[0]
+            return {node.nodeName: self._from_xml_node(node, plurals)}
+        except expat.ExpatError:
+            msg = _("cannot understand XML")
+            raise exception.MalformedRequestBody(reason=msg)
+
+    def _from_xml_node(self, node, listnames):
+        """Convert a minidom node to a simple Python type.
+
+        :param listnames: list of XML node names whose subnodes should
+                          be considered list items.
+
+        """
+
+        if len(node.childNodes) == 1 and node.childNodes[0].nodeType == 3:
+            return node.childNodes[0].nodeValue
+        elif node.nodeName in listnames:
+            return [self._from_xml_node(n, listnames) for n in node.childNodes]
+        else:
+            result = dict()
+            for attr in node.attributes.keys():
+                result[attr] = node.attributes[attr].nodeValue
+            for child in node.childNodes:
+                if child.nodeType != node.TEXT_NODE:
+                    result[child.nodeName] = self._from_xml_node(child,
+                                                                 listnames)
+            return result
+
+    def find_first_child_named(self, parent, name):
+        """Search a nodes children for the first child with a given name"""
+        for node in parent.childNodes:
+            if node.nodeName == name:
+                return node
+        return None
+
+    def find_children_named(self, parent, name):
+        """Return all of a nodes children who have the given name"""
+        for node in parent.childNodes:
+            if node.nodeName == name:
+                yield node
+
+    def extract_text(self, node):
+        """Get the text field contained by the given node"""
+        if len(node.childNodes) == 1:
+            child = node.childNodes[0]
+            if child.nodeType == child.TEXT_NODE:
+                return child.nodeValue
+        return ""
+
+    def default(self, datastring):
+        return {'body': self._from_xml(datastring)}
diff --git a/portas/portas/openstack/common/xmlutils.py b/portas/portas/openstack/common/xmlutils.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..33700485
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/openstack/common/xmlutils.py
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+# vim: tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4
+
+# Copyright 2013 IBM
+#
+#    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.
+
+from xml.dom import minidom
+from xml.parsers import expat
+from xml import sax
+from xml.sax import expatreader
+
+
+class ProtectedExpatParser(expatreader.ExpatParser):
+    """An expat parser which disables DTD's and entities by default."""
+
+    def __init__(self, forbid_dtd=True, forbid_entities=True,
+                 *args, **kwargs):
+        # Python 2.x old style class
+        expatreader.ExpatParser.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
+        self.forbid_dtd = forbid_dtd
+        self.forbid_entities = forbid_entities
+
+    def start_doctype_decl(self, name, sysid, pubid, has_internal_subset):
+        raise ValueError("Inline DTD forbidden")
+
+    def entity_decl(self, entityName, is_parameter_entity, value, base,
+                    systemId, publicId, notationName):
+        raise ValueError("<!ENTITY> entity declaration forbidden")
+
+    def unparsed_entity_decl(self, name, base, sysid, pubid, notation_name):
+        # expat 1.2
+        raise ValueError("<!ENTITY> unparsed entity forbidden")
+
+    def external_entity_ref(self, context, base, systemId, publicId):
+        raise ValueError("<!ENTITY> external entity forbidden")
+
+    def notation_decl(self, name, base, sysid, pubid):
+        raise ValueError("<!ENTITY> notation forbidden")
+
+    def reset(self):
+        expatreader.ExpatParser.reset(self)
+        if self.forbid_dtd:
+            self._parser.StartDoctypeDeclHandler = self.start_doctype_decl
+            self._parser.EndDoctypeDeclHandler = None
+        if self.forbid_entities:
+            self._parser.EntityDeclHandler = self.entity_decl
+            self._parser.UnparsedEntityDeclHandler = self.unparsed_entity_decl
+            self._parser.ExternalEntityRefHandler = self.external_entity_ref
+            self._parser.NotationDeclHandler = self.notation_decl
+            try:
+                self._parser.SkippedEntityHandler = None
+            except AttributeError:
+                # some pyexpat versions do not support SkippedEntity
+                pass
+
+
+def safe_minidom_parse_string(xml_string):
+    """Parse an XML string using minidom safely.
+
+    """
+    try:
+        return minidom.parseString(xml_string, parser=ProtectedExpatParser())
+    except sax.SAXParseException:
+        raise expat.ExpatError()
diff --git a/portas/portas/schema.py b/portas/portas/schema.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..70517657
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/schema.py
@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+# Copyright 2012 OpenStack Foundation.
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    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.
+
+import jsonschema
+
+from portas.common import exception
+
+
+class Schema(object):
+
+    def __init__(self, name, properties=None, links=None):
+        self.name = name
+        if properties is None:
+            properties = {}
+        self.properties = properties
+        self.links = links
+
+    def validate(self, obj):
+        try:
+            jsonschema.validate(obj, self.raw())
+        except jsonschema.ValidationError as e:
+            raise exception.InvalidObject(schema=self.name, reason=str(e))
+
+    def filter(self, obj):
+        filtered = {}
+        for key, value in obj.iteritems():
+            if self._filter_func(self.properties, key) and value is not None:
+                filtered[key] = value
+        return filtered
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _filter_func(properties, key):
+        return key in properties
+
+    def raw(self):
+        raw = {
+            'name': self.name,
+            'properties': self.properties,
+            'additionalProperties': False,
+        }
+        if self.links:
+            raw['links'] = self.links
+        return raw
+
+
+class CollectionSchema(object):
+
+    def __init__(self, name, item_schema):
+        self.name = name
+        self.item_schema = item_schema
+
+    def raw(self):
+        return {
+            'name': self.name,
+            'properties': {
+                self.name: {
+                    'type': 'array',
+                    'items': self.item_schema.raw(),
+                },
+                'first': {'type': 'string'},
+                'next': {'type': 'string'},
+                'schema': {'type': 'string'},
+            },
+            'links': [
+                {'rel': 'first', 'href': '{first}'},
+                {'rel': 'next', 'href': '{next}'},
+                {'rel': 'describedby', 'href': '{schema}'},
+            ],
+        }
diff --git a/portas/portas/tests/__init__.py b/portas/portas/tests/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b
diff --git a/portas/portas/tests/api/__init__.py b/portas/portas/tests/api/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0a754b6c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/tests/api/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+__author__ = 'sad'
diff --git a/portas/portas/tests/api/simple_test.py b/portas/portas/tests/api/simple_test.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c8d86a51
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/tests/api/simple_test.py
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+import unittest
+
+
+class Test(unittest.TestCase):
+    def test(self):
+        assert True
diff --git a/portas/portas/utils.py b/portas/portas/utils.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..393c6fb2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/utils.py
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+import functools
+import logging
+from webob import exc
+from portas.db.models import Session
+from portas.db.session import get_session
+
+log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+def verify_session(func):
+    @functools.wraps(func)
+    def __inner(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
+        if hasattr(request, 'context') and request.context.session:
+            uw = get_session()
+            configuration_session = uw.query(Session).get(request.context.session)
+
+            if configuration_session.state != 'open':
+                log.info('Session is already deployed')
+                raise exc.HTTPUnauthorized
+        else:
+            log.info('No session is supplied')
+            raise exc.HTTPUnauthorized
+        return func(self, request, *args, **kwargs)
+    return __inner
+
+
diff --git a/portas/portas/version.py b/portas/portas/version.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f740c7ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/portas/version.py
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# vim: tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4
+
+#    Copyright 2012 OpenStack Foundation
+#
+#    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.
+
+
+from portas.openstack.common import version as common_version
+
+version_info = common_version.VersionInfo('portas')
diff --git a/portas/run_tests.sh b/portas/run_tests.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..31ec4e8e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/run_tests.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,123 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+function usage {
+  echo "Usage: $0 [OPTION]..."
+  echo "Run Portas's test suite(s)"
+  echo ""
+  echo "  -V, --virtual-env        Always use virtualenv.  Install automatically if not present"
+  echo "  -N, --no-virtual-env     Don't use virtualenv.  Run tests in local environment"
+  echo "  -f, --force              Force a clean re-build of the virtual environment. Useful when dependencies have been added."
+  echo "  -u, --update             Update the virtual environment with any newer package versions"
+  echo "  --unittests-only         Run unit tests only, exclude functional tests."
+  echo "  -p, --pep8               Just run pep8"
+  echo "  -P, --no-pep8            Don't run static code checks"
+  echo "  -h, --help               Print this usage message"
+  echo ""
+  echo "Note: with no options specified, the script will try to run the tests in a virtual environment,"
+  echo "      If no virtualenv is found, the script will ask if you would like to create one.  If you "
+  echo "      prefer to run tests NOT in a virtual environment, simply pass the -N option."
+  exit
+}
+
+function process_option {
+  case "$1" in
+    -h|--help) usage;;
+    -V|--virtual-env) let always_venv=1; let never_venv=0;;
+    -N|--no-virtual-env) let always_venv=0; let never_venv=1;;
+    -p|--pep8) let just_pep8=1;;
+    -P|--no-pep8) let no_pep8=1;;
+    -f|--force) let force=1;;
+    -u|--update) update=1;;
+    --unittests-only) noseopts="$noseopts --exclude-dir=portas/tests/functional";;
+    -c|--coverage) noseopts="$noseopts --with-coverage --cover-package=portas";;
+    -*) noseopts="$noseopts $1";;
+    *) noseargs="$noseargs $1"
+  esac
+}
+
+venv=.venv
+with_venv=tools/with_venv.sh
+always_venv=0
+never_venv=0
+force=0
+noseopts=
+noseargs=
+wrapper=""
+just_pep8=0
+no_pep8=0
+update=0
+
+export NOSE_WITH_OPENSTACK=1
+export NOSE_OPENSTACK_COLOR=1
+export NOSE_OPENSTACK_RED=0.05
+export NOSE_OPENSTACK_YELLOW=0.025
+export NOSE_OPENSTACK_SHOW_ELAPSED=1
+export NOSE_OPENSTACK_STDOUT=1
+
+for arg in "$@"; do
+  process_option $arg
+done
+
+function run_tests {
+  # Cleanup *pyc
+  ${wrapper} find . -type f -name "*.pyc" -delete
+  # Just run the test suites in current environment
+  ${wrapper} rm -f tests.sqlite
+  ${wrapper} $NOSETESTS
+}
+
+function run_pep8 {
+  echo "Running pep8 ..."
+  PEP8_EXCLUDE=".venv,.tox,dist,doc,openstack"
+  PEP8_OPTIONS="--exclude=$PEP8_EXCLUDE --repeat"
+  PEP8_IGNORE="--ignore=E125,E126,E711,E712"
+  PEP8_INCLUDE=". bin/*"
+
+  ${wrapper} pep8 $PEP8_OPTIONS $PEP8_INCLUDE $PEP8_IGNORE
+}
+
+
+NOSETESTS="nosetests $noseopts $noseargs"
+
+if [ $never_venv -eq 0 ]
+then
+  # Remove the virtual environment if --force used
+  if [ $force -eq 1 ]; then
+    echo "Cleaning virtualenv..."
+    rm -rf ${venv}
+  fi
+  if [ $update -eq 1 ]; then
+    echo "Updating virtualenv..."
+    python tools/install_venv.py
+  fi
+  if [ -e ${venv} ]; then
+    wrapper="${with_venv}"
+  else
+    if [ $always_venv -eq 1 ]; then
+      # Automatically install the virtualenv
+      python tools/install_venv.py
+      wrapper="${with_venv}"
+    else
+      echo -e "No virtual environment found...create one? (Y/n) \c"
+      read use_ve
+      if [ "x$use_ve" = "xY" -o "x$use_ve" = "x" -o "x$use_ve" = "xy" ]; then
+        # Install the virtualenv and run the test suite in it
+        python tools/install_venv.py
+		    wrapper=${with_venv}
+      fi
+    fi
+  fi
+fi
+
+if [ $just_pep8 -eq 1 ]; then
+    run_pep8
+    exit
+fi
+
+run_tests || exit
+
+if [ -z "$noseargs" ]; then
+    if [ $no_pep8 -eq 0 ]; then
+        run_pep8
+    fi
+fi
diff --git a/portas/setup.cfg b/portas/setup.cfg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3e547541
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/setup.cfg
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+[build_sphinx]
+all_files = 1
+build-dir = doc/build
+source-dir = doc/source
+
+[egg_info]
+tag_build = 
+tag_date = 0
+tag_svn_revision = 0
+
+[compile_catalog]
+directory = portas/locale
+domain = portas
+
+[update_catalog]
+domain = portas
+output_dir = portas/locale
+input_file = portas/locale/portas.pot
+
+[extract_messages]
+keywords = _ gettext ngettext l_ lazy_gettext
+mapping_file = babel.cfg
+output_file = portas/locale/portas.pot
+
+[nosetests]
+# NOTE(jkoelker) To run the test suite under nose install the following
+#                coverage http://pypi.python.org/pypi/coverage
+#                tissue http://pypi.python.org/pypi/tissue (pep8 checker)
+#                openstack-nose https://github.com/jkoelker/openstack-nose
+verbosity=2
+cover-package = portas
+cover-html = true
+cover-erase = true
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/portas/setup.py b/portas/setup.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8cd1b765
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/setup.py
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python
+# Copyright (c) 2010 OpenStack, LLC.
+#
+# 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.
+
+import setuptools
+
+from portas.openstack.common import setup
+
+requires = setup.parse_requirements()
+depend_links = setup.parse_dependency_links()
+project = 'portas'
+
+setuptools.setup(
+    name=project,
+    version=setup.get_version(project, '2013.1'),
+    description='The Portas project provides a simple WSGI server for Windows '
+                'Environment Management',
+    license='Apache License (2.0)',
+    author='OpenStack',
+    author_email='openstack@lists.launchpad.net',
+    url='http://portas.openstack.org/',
+    packages=setuptools.find_packages(exclude=['bin']),
+    test_suite='nose.collector',
+    cmdclass=setup.get_cmdclass(),
+    include_package_data=True,
+    install_requires=requires,
+    dependency_links=depend_links,
+    classifiers=[
+        'Development Status :: 4 - Beta',
+        'License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License',
+        'Operating System :: POSIX :: Linux',
+        'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7',
+        'Environment :: No Input/Output (Daemon)',
+        'Environment :: OpenStack',
+    ],
+    scripts=['bin/portas-api'],
+    py_modules=[]
+)
diff --git a/portas/tools/install_venv.py b/portas/tools/install_venv.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ccaaa5e8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/tools/install_venv.py
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+# vim: tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4
+
+# Copyright 2010 United States Government as represented by the
+# Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+# Copyright 2010 OpenStack LLC.
+# Copyright 2013 IBM Corp.
+#
+#    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.
+
+"""
+Installation script for Glance's development virtualenv
+"""
+
+import os
+import subprocess
+import sys
+
+import install_venv_common as install_venv
+
+
+def print_help():
+    help = """
+ Portas development environment setup is complete.
+
+ Portas development uses virtualenv to track and manage Python dependencies
+ while in development and testing.
+
+ To activate the Portas virtualenv for the extent of your current shell session
+ you can run:
+
+ $ source .venv/bin/activate
+
+ Or, if you prefer, you can run commands in the virtualenv on a case by case
+ basis by running:
+
+ $ tools/with_venv.sh <your command>
+
+ Also, make test will automatically use the virtualenv.
+    """
+    print help
+
+
+def main(argv):
+    root = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)))
+    venv = os.path.join(root, '.venv')
+    pip_requires = os.path.join(root, 'tools', 'pip-requires')
+    test_requires = os.path.join(root, 'tools', 'test-requires')
+    py_version = "python%s.%s" % (sys.version_info[0], sys.version_info[1])
+    project = 'Portas'
+    install = install_venv.InstallVenv(root, venv, pip_requires, test_requires,
+                                       py_version, project)
+    options = install.parse_args(argv)
+    install.check_python_version()
+    install.check_dependencies()
+    install.create_virtualenv(no_site_packages=options.no_site_packages)
+    install.install_dependencies()
+    install.run_command([os.path.join(venv, 'bin/python'),
+                        'setup.py', 'develop'])
+    install.post_process()
+    print_help()
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main(sys.argv)
diff --git a/portas/tools/install_venv_common.py b/portas/tools/install_venv_common.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..fd9076f0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/tools/install_venv_common.py
@@ -0,0 +1,219 @@
+# vim: tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4
+
+# Copyright 2013 OpenStack, LLC
+# Copyright 2013 IBM Corp.
+#
+#    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.
+
+"""Provides methods needed by installation script for OpenStack development
+virtual environments.
+
+Synced in from openstack-common
+"""
+
+import argparse
+import os
+import subprocess
+import sys
+
+
+class InstallVenv(object):
+
+    def __init__(self, root, venv, pip_requires, test_requires, py_version,
+                 project):
+        self.root = root
+        self.venv = venv
+        self.pip_requires = pip_requires
+        self.test_requires = test_requires
+        self.py_version = py_version
+        self.project = project
+
+    def die(self, message, *args):
+        print >> sys.stderr, message % args
+        sys.exit(1)
+
+    def check_python_version(self):
+        if sys.version_info < (2, 6):
+            self.die("Need Python Version >= 2.6")
+
+    def run_command_with_code(self, cmd, redirect_output=True,
+                              check_exit_code=True):
+        """Runs a command in an out-of-process shell.
+
+        Returns the output of that command. Working directory is self.root.
+        """
+        if redirect_output:
+            stdout = subprocess.PIPE
+        else:
+            stdout = None
+
+        proc = subprocess.Popen(cmd, cwd=self.root, stdout=stdout)
+        output = proc.communicate()[0]
+        if check_exit_code and proc.returncode != 0:
+            self.die('Command "%s" failed.\n%s', ' '.join(cmd), output)
+        return (output, proc.returncode)
+
+    def run_command(self, cmd, redirect_output=True, check_exit_code=True):
+        return self.run_command_with_code(cmd, redirect_output,
+                                          check_exit_code)[0]
+
+    def get_distro(self):
+        if (os.path.exists('/etc/fedora-release') or
+                os.path.exists('/etc/redhat-release')):
+            return Fedora(self.root, self.venv, self.pip_requires,
+                          self.test_requires, self.py_version, self.project)
+        else:
+            return Distro(self.root, self.venv, self.pip_requires,
+                          self.test_requires, self.py_version, self.project)
+
+    def check_dependencies(self):
+        self.get_distro().install_virtualenv()
+
+    def create_virtualenv(self, no_site_packages=True):
+        """Creates the virtual environment and installs PIP.
+
+        Creates the virtual environment and installs PIP only into the
+        virtual environment.
+        """
+        if not os.path.isdir(self.venv):
+            print 'Creating venv...',
+            if no_site_packages:
+                self.run_command(['virtualenv', '-q', '--no-site-packages',
+                                 self.venv])
+            else:
+                self.run_command(['virtualenv', '-q', self.venv])
+            print 'done.'
+            print 'Installing pip in venv...',
+            if not self.run_command(['tools/with_venv.sh', 'easy_install',
+                                    'pip>1.0']).strip():
+                self.die("Failed to install pip.")
+            print 'done.'
+        else:
+            print "venv already exists..."
+            pass
+
+    def pip_install(self, *args):
+        self.run_command(['tools/with_venv.sh',
+                         'pip', 'install', '--upgrade'] + list(args),
+                         redirect_output=False)
+
+    def install_dependencies(self):
+        print 'Installing dependencies with pip (this can take a while)...'
+
+        # First things first, make sure our venv has the latest pip and
+        # distribute.
+        # NOTE: we keep pip at version 1.1 since the most recent version causes
+        # the .venv creation to fail. See:
+        # https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1047120
+        self.pip_install('pip==1.1')
+        self.pip_install('distribute')
+
+        # Install greenlet by hand - just listing it in the requires file does
+        # not
+        # get it installed in the right order
+        self.pip_install('greenlet')
+
+        self.pip_install('-r', self.pip_requires)
+        self.pip_install('-r', self.test_requires)
+
+    def post_process(self):
+        self.get_distro().post_process()
+
+    def parse_args(self, argv):
+        """Parses command-line arguments."""
+        parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+        parser.add_argument('-n', '--no-site-packages',
+                            action='store_true',
+                            help="Do not inherit packages from global Python "
+                                 "install")
+        return parser.parse_args(argv[1:])
+
+
+class Distro(InstallVenv):
+
+    def check_cmd(self, cmd):
+        return bool(self.run_command(['which', cmd],
+                    check_exit_code=False).strip())
+
+    def install_virtualenv(self):
+        if self.check_cmd('virtualenv'):
+            return
+
+        if self.check_cmd('easy_install'):
+            print 'Installing virtualenv via easy_install...',
+            if self.run_command(['easy_install', 'virtualenv']):
+                print 'Succeeded'
+                return
+            else:
+                print 'Failed'
+
+        self.die('ERROR: virtualenv not found.\n\n%s development'
+                 ' requires virtualenv, please install it using your'
+                 ' favorite package management tool' % self.project)
+
+    def post_process(self):
+        """Any distribution-specific post-processing gets done here.
+
+        In particular, this is useful for applying patches to code inside
+        the venv.
+        """
+        pass
+
+
+class Fedora(Distro):
+    """This covers all Fedora-based distributions.
+
+    Includes: Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, Scientific Linux
+    """
+
+    def check_pkg(self, pkg):
+        return self.run_command_with_code(['rpm', '-q', pkg],
+                                          check_exit_code=False)[1] == 0
+
+    def yum_install(self, pkg, **kwargs):
+        print "Attempting to install '%s' via yum" % pkg
+        self.run_command(['sudo', 'yum', 'install', '-y', pkg], **kwargs)
+
+    def apply_patch(self, originalfile, patchfile):
+        self.run_command(['patch', originalfile, patchfile])
+
+    def install_virtualenv(self):
+        if self.check_cmd('virtualenv'):
+            return
+
+        if not self.check_pkg('python-virtualenv'):
+            self.yum_install('python-virtualenv', check_exit_code=False)
+
+        super(Fedora, self).install_virtualenv()
+
+    def post_process(self):
+        """Workaround for a bug in eventlet.
+
+        This currently affects RHEL6.1, but the fix can safely be
+        applied to all RHEL and Fedora distributions.
+
+        This can be removed when the fix is applied upstream.
+
+        Nova: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/884915
+        Upstream: https://bitbucket.org/which_linden/eventlet/issue/89
+        """
+
+        # Install "patch" program if it's not there
+        if not self.check_pkg('patch'):
+            self.yum_install('patch')
+
+        # Apply the eventlet patch
+        self.apply_patch(os.path.join(self.venv, 'lib', self.py_version,
+                                      'site-packages',
+                                      'eventlet/green/subprocess.py'),
+                         'contrib/redhat-eventlet.patch')
diff --git a/portas/tools/pip-requires b/portas/tools/pip-requires
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2b71bd97
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/tools/pip-requires
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+Babel
+SQLAlchemy>=0.7,<=0.7.9
+anyjson
+eventlet>=0.9.12
+PasteDeploy
+routes
+WebOb>=1.2
+wsgiref
+argparse
+boto
+sqlalchemy-migrate>=0.7
+httplib2
+kombu
+pycrypto>=2.1.0alpha1
+iso8601>=0.1.4
+amqplib
+
+# Note you will need gcc buildtools installed and must
+# have installed libxml headers for lxml to be successfully
+# installed using pip, therefore you will need to install the
+# libxml2-dev and libxslt-dev Ubuntu packages.
+lxml
+
+# For paste.util.template used in keystone.common.template
+Paste
+
+passlib
+jsonschema
+python-keystoneclient>=0.2.0
+
+http://tarballs.openstack.org/oslo-config/oslo-config-2013.1b4.tar.gz#egg=oslo-config
diff --git a/portas/tools/test-requires b/portas/tools/test-requires
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0330b67c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/tools/test-requires
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+# Packages needed for dev testing
+distribute>=0.6.24
+
+# Needed for testing
+coverage
+fixtures>=0.3.12
+mox
+nose
+nose-exclude
+openstack.nose_plugin>=0.7
+nosehtmloutput>=0.0.3
+pep8==1.3.3
+sphinx>=1.1.2
+requests
+testtools>=0.9.22
+
+# Optional packages that should be installed when testing
+xattr>=0.6.0
+pysendfile==2.0.0
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diff --git a/portas/tools/with_venv.sh b/portas/tools/with_venv.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..c8d2940f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/portas/tools/with_venv.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+TOOLS=`dirname $0`
+VENV=$TOOLS/../.venv
+source $VENV/bin/activate && $@