diff --git a/.coveragerc b/.coveragerc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..14b76c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.coveragerc
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+[run]
+branch = True
+source = hc-tools
+
+[report]
+ignore_errors = True
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4cbb844
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+# Add patterns in here to exclude files created by tools integrated with this
+# repository, such as test frameworks from the project's recommended workflow,
+# rendered documentation and package builds.
+#
+# Don't add patterns to exclude files created by preferred personal tools
+# (editors, IDEs, your operating system itself even). These should instead be
+# maintained outside the repository, for example in a ~/.gitignore file added
+# with:
+#
+# git config --global core.excludesfile '~/.gitignore'
+
+# Bytecompiled Python
+*.py[cod]
+
+# C extensions
+*.so
+
+# Packages
+*.egg*
+*.egg-info
+dist
+build
+eggs
+parts
+bin
+var
+sdist
+develop-eggs
+.installed.cfg
+lib
+lib64
+
+# Installer logs
+pip-log.txt
+
+# Unit test / coverage reports
+cover/
+.coverage*
+!.coveragerc
+.tox
+nosetests.xml
+.testrepository
+.stestr
+.venv
+
+# Translations
+*.mo
+
+# Complexity
+output/*.html
+output/*/index.html
+
+# Sphinx
+doc/build
+
+# pbr generates these
+AUTHORS
+ChangeLog
+
+# Files created by releasenotes build
+releasenotes/build
diff --git a/.stestr.conf b/.stestr.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2b0c87e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.stestr.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+[DEFAULT]
+test_path=./hc_tools/tests/
+top_dir=./
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.rst b/CONTRIBUTING.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..660cfe5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+The source repository for this project can be found at:
+
+   https://gitea.eco.tsi-dev.otc-service.com/infra/hc-tools.git
diff --git a/doc/requirements.txt b/doc/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..23b871f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+sphinx>=2.0.0,!=2.1.0 # BSD
+otcdocstheme>=1.0.0 # Apache-2.0
+# releasenotes
+reno>=3.1.0 # Apache-2.0
diff --git a/doc/source/conf.py b/doc/source/conf.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..3c78326
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/source/conf.py
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# 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 sys
+
+sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('../..'))
+# -- 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.autodoc',
+    'otcdocstheme',
+    #'sphinx.ext.intersphinx',
+]
+
+# autodoc generation is a bit aggressive and a nuisance when doing heavy
+# text edit cycles.
+# execute "export SPHINX_DEBUG=1" in your terminal to disable
+
+# The suffix of source filenames.
+source_suffix = '.rst'
+
+# The master toctree document.
+master_doc = 'index'
+
+# General information about the project.
+project = 'ssh://git@gitea.eco.tsi-dev.otc-service.com:2222/infra/otc-metadata.git'
+copyright = '2022, Open Telekom Cloud Developers'
+
+# 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
+
+# The name of the Pygments (syntax highlighting) style to use.
+pygments_style = 'native'
+
+# -- 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'
+# html_static_path = ['static']
+html_theme = 'otcdocs'
+
+# Output file base name for HTML help builder.
+htmlhelp_basename = '%sdoc' % project
+
+# Grouping the document tree into LaTeX files. List of tuples
+# (source start file, target name, title, author, documentclass
+# [howto/manual]).
+latex_documents = [
+    ('index',
+     '%s.tex' % project,
+     '%s Documentation' % project,
+     'Open Telekom Cloud Developers', 'manual'),
+]
+
+# Example configuration for intersphinx: refer to the Python standard library.
+#intersphinx_mapping = {'http://docs.python.org/': None}
diff --git a/doc/source/index.rst b/doc/source/index.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..035cc46
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/source/index.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+============================================
+Welcome to the documentation of hc-tools
+============================================
diff --git a/hc_tools/__init__.py b/hc_tools/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3b458c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hc_tools/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+# 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.
+__all__ = ["__version__", "Docs"]
+
+import pbr.version
+
+from otc_metadata.services import Services  # flake8: noqa
+
+__version__ = pbr.version.VersionInfo("otc-metadata").version_string()
+_service_manager = None
+
+
+def get_service_data(*args, **kwargs):
+    """Return singleton instance of the Services object.
+    Parameters are all passed through to the
+    :class:`~otc_metadata.services.Services` constructor.
+    .. note::
+      Only one singleton is kept, so if instances with different parameter
+      values are desired, directly calling the constructor is necessary.
+    :returns: Singleton instance of
+        :class:`~otc_metadata.services.Services`
+    """
+    global _service_manager
+    if not _service_manager:
+        _service_manager = Services(*args, **kwargs)
+    return _service_manager
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/.placeholder b/releasenotes/notes/.placeholder
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/releasenotes/source/_static/.placeholder b/releasenotes/source/_static/.placeholder
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/releasenotes/source/_templates/.placeholder b/releasenotes/source/_templates/.placeholder
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/releasenotes/source/conf.py b/releasenotes/source/conf.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ecd0d77
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releasenotes/source/conf.py
@@ -0,0 +1,271 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# 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.
+
+# 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.
+
+# 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.insert(0, os.path.abspath('.'))
+
+# -- General configuration ------------------------------------------------
+
+# If your documentation needs a minimal Sphinx version, state it here.
+# needs_sphinx = '1.0'
+
+# Add any Sphinx extension module names here, as strings. They can be
+# extensions coming with Sphinx (named 'sphinx.ext.*') or your custom
+# ones.
+extensions = [
+    'otcdocstheme',
+    'reno.sphinxext',
+]
+
+# Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.
+templates_path = ['_templates']
+
+# The suffix of source filenames.
+source_suffix = '.rst'
+
+# The encoding of source files.
+# source_encoding = 'utf-8-sig'
+
+# The master toctree document.
+master_doc = 'index'
+
+# General information about the project.
+project = 'otc-metadata Release Notes'
+copyright = '2022, Open Telekom Cloud Developers'
+
+# 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.
+# The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
+release = ''
+# The short X.Y version.
+version = ''
+
+# 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 patterns, relative to source directory, that match files and
+# directories to ignore when looking for source files.
+exclude_patterns = []
+
+# The reST default role (used 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 = False
+
+# The name of the Pygments (syntax highlighting) style to use.
+pygments_style = 'native'
+
+# A list of ignored prefixes for module index sorting.
+# modindex_common_prefix = []
+
+# If true, keep warnings as "system message" paragraphs in the built documents.
+# keep_warnings = False
+
+
+# -- Options for HTML output ----------------------------------------------
+
+# The theme to use for HTML and HTML Help pages.  See the documentation for
+# a list of builtin themes.
+html_theme = 'otcdocs'
+
+# 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 = []
+
+# 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']
+
+# Add any extra paths that contain custom files (such as robots.txt or
+# .htaccess) here, relative to this directory. These files are copied
+# directly to the root of the documentation.
+# html_extra_path = []
+
+# 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_domain_indices = True
+
+# If false, no index is generated.
+# html_use_index = True
+
+# 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, "Created using Sphinx" is shown in the HTML footer. Default is True.
+# html_show_sphinx = True
+
+# If true, "(C) Copyright ..." is shown in the HTML footer. Default is True.
+# html_show_copyright = 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 = ''
+
+# This is the file name suffix for HTML files (e.g. ".xhtml").
+# html_file_suffix = None
+
+# Output file base name for HTML help builder.
+htmlhelp_basename = 'otc-metadataReleaseNotesdoc'
+
+
+# -- Options for LaTeX output ---------------------------------------------
+
+latex_elements = {
+    # The paper size ('letterpaper' or 'a4paper').
+    # 'papersize': 'letterpaper',
+
+    # The font size ('10pt', '11pt' or '12pt').
+    # 'pointsize': '10pt',
+
+    # Additional stuff for the LaTeX preamble.
+    # 'preamble': '',
+}
+
+# Grouping the document tree into LaTeX files. List of tuples
+# (source start file, target name, title,
+#  author, documentclass [howto, manual, or own class]).
+latex_documents = [
+    ('index', 'otc-metadataReleaseNotes.tex',
+     'otc-metadata  Release Notes Documentation',
+     'Open Telekom Cloud', '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
+
+# If true, show page references after internal links.
+# latex_show_pagerefs = False
+
+# If true, show URL addresses after external links.
+# latex_show_urls = False
+
+# Documents to append as an appendix to all manuals.
+# latex_appendices = []
+
+# If false, no module index is generated.
+# latex_domain_indices = True
+
+
+# -- Options for manual page output ---------------------------------------
+
+# One entry per manual page. List of tuples
+# (source start file, name, description, authors, manual section).
+man_pages = [
+    ('index', 'otc-metadatarereleasenotes',
+     'otc-metadata  Release Notes Documentation',
+     ['Open Telekom Cloud'], 1)
+]
+
+# If true, show URL addresses after external links.
+# man_show_urls = False
+
+
+# -- Options for Texinfo output -------------------------------------------
+
+# Grouping the document tree into Texinfo files. List of tuples
+# (source start file, target name, title, author,
+#  dir menu entry, description, category)
+texinfo_documents = [
+    ('index', 'otc-metadata ReleaseNotes',
+     'otc-metadata Release Notes Documentation',
+     'Open Telekom Cloud Foundation', 'otc-metadataReleaseNotes',
+     'One line description of project.',
+     'Miscellaneous'),
+]
+
+# Documents to append as an appendix to all manuals.
+# texinfo_appendices = []
+
+# If false, no module index is generated.
+# texinfo_domain_indices = True
+
+# How to display URL addresses: 'footnote', 'no', or 'inline'.
+# texinfo_show_urls = 'footnote'
+
+# If true, do not generate a @detailmenu in the "Top" node's menu.
+# texinfo_no_detailmenu = False
+
+# -- Options for Internationalization output ------------------------------
+locale_dirs = ['locale/']
diff --git a/releasenotes/source/index.rst b/releasenotes/source/index.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a040fa0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releasenotes/source/index.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+============================================
+ otc-metadata Release Notes
+============================================
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 1
+
+   unreleased
diff --git a/releasenotes/source/unreleased.rst b/releasenotes/source/unreleased.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cd22aab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releasenotes/source/unreleased.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+==============================
+ Current Series Release Notes
+==============================
+
+.. release-notes::
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1d18dd3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+# The order of packages is significant, because pip processes them in the order
+# of appearance. Changing the order has an impact on the overall integration
+# process, which may cause wedges in the gate later.
+
+pbr>=2.0 # Apache-2.0
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8a2063f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+[metadata]
+name = hc-tools
+summary = Tools to maintain the Open Telekom Cloud Helpcenter
+description_file =
+    README.rst
+author = Open Telekom Cloud
+home_page = https://open.telekom.cloud/
+python_requires = >=3.6
+classifier =
+    Environment :: OpenStack
+    Intended Audience :: Information Technology
+    Intended Audience :: System Administrators
+    License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License
+    Operating System :: POSIX :: Linux
+    Programming Language :: Python
+    Programming Language :: Python :: 3
+    Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7
+    Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8
+    Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9
+    Programming Language :: Python :: 3 :: Only
+    Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: CPython
+
+[files]
+packages =
+    hc_tools
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7f1bbe8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# 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
+
+setuptools.setup(
+    setup_requires=['pbr'],
+    pbr=True)
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8a2bd6e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+# The order of packages is significant, because pip processes them in the order
+# of appearance. Changing the order has an impact on the overall integration
+# process, which may cause wedges in the gate later.
+
+stestr>=2.0.0 # Apache-2.0
+testtools>=2.2.0 # MIT
+flake8
diff --git a/tools-requirements.txt b/tools-requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1bddc55
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools-requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+GitPython
+ruamel.yaml
+requests
+jinja2
+dirsync
+cookiecutter
+opensearch-py
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3b5961d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+[tox]
+minversion = 3.2.0
+envlist = py3,pep8
+ignore_basepython_conflict = true
+
+[testenv]
+basepython = python3
+usedevelop = True
+setenv =
+   PYTHONWARNINGS=default::DeprecationWarning
+deps = -r{toxinidir}/test-requirements.txt
+commands = stestr run {posargs}
+
+[testenv:pep8]
+commands = flake8 {posargs}
+
+[testenv:venv]
+commands = {posargs}
+
+[flake8]
+# E123, E125 skipped as they are invalid PEP-8.
+show-source = True
+ignore = E123,E125,W503
+builtins = _
+exclude=.venv,.git,.tox,dist,doc,*lib/python*,*egg,build
diff --git a/zuul.yaml b/zuul.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3a1ad47
--- /dev/null
+++ b/zuul.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+---
+- project:
+    merge-mode: squash-merge
+    default-branch: main
+    check:
+      jobs:
+        - otc-tox-pep8
+        - otc-tox-py39
+    gate:
+      jobs:
+        - otc-tox-pep8
+        - otc-tox-py39