diff --git a/utilities/platform-util/centos/platform-util.spec b/utilities/platform-util/centos/platform-util.spec
index b54116b49..dcd70b154 100644
--- a/utilities/platform-util/centos/platform-util.spec
+++ b/utilities/platform-util/centos/platform-util.spec
@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ Platform utilities that don't get packaged on controller hosts
 %define local_bindir %{local_dir}/bin
 %define local_sbindir %{local_dir}/sbin
 %define pythonroot /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages
-%define local_etc_initd %{_sysconfdir}/init.d
+%define system_initd %{_sysconfdir}/init.d
+%define system_profiled %{_sysconfdir}/profile.d
 
 %prep
 %setup
@@ -53,9 +54,11 @@ install -d %{buildroot}%{local_bindir}
 install %{_buildsubdir}/scripts/cgcs_tc_setup.sh %{buildroot}%{local_bindir}
 install %{_buildsubdir}/scripts/remotelogging_tc_setup.sh %{buildroot}%{local_bindir}
 install %{_buildsubdir}/scripts/connectivity_test %{buildroot}%{local_bindir}
+install %{_buildsubdir}/scripts/openstack-pod-exec.sh %{buildroot}%{local_bindir}
+install %{_buildsubdir}/scripts/openstack-pod-cp.sh %{buildroot}%{local_bindir}
 
-install -d %{buildroot}%{local_etc_initd}
-install %{_buildsubdir}/scripts/log_functions.sh %{buildroot}%{local_etc_initd}
+install -d %{buildroot}%{system_initd}
+install %{_buildsubdir}/scripts/log_functions.sh %{buildroot}%{system_initd}
 
 install -d %{buildroot}%{local_sbindir}
 install -m 700 -P -D %{_buildsubdir}/scripts/patch-restart-mtce %{buildroot}%{local_sbindir}
@@ -66,6 +69,9 @@ install -d %{buildroot}/etc/systemd/system
 install -m 644 -p -D %{_buildsubdir}/scripts/opt-platform.mount %{buildroot}/etc/systemd/system
 install -m 644 -p -D %{_buildsubdir}/scripts/opt-platform.service %{buildroot}/etc/systemd/system
 
+install -d %{buildroot}%{system_profiled}
+install -m 644 %{_buildsubdir}/scripts/osc-profile.sh %{buildroot}%{system_profiled}
+
 # Mask the systemd ctrl-alt-delete.target, to disable reboot on ctrl-alt-del
 ln -sf /dev/null %{buildroot}/etc/systemd/system/ctrl-alt-del.target
 
@@ -83,15 +89,18 @@ systemctl enable opt-platform.service
 %{local_bindir}/cgcs_tc_setup.sh
 %{local_bindir}/remotelogging_tc_setup.sh
 %{local_bindir}/connectivity_test
+%{local_bindir}/openstack-pod-exec.sh
+%{local_bindir}/openstack-pod-cp.sh
 %{local_sbindir}/patch-restart-mtce
 %{local_sbindir}/patch-restart-processes
 %{local_sbindir}/patch-restart-haproxy
+%{system_profiled}/osc-profile.sh
 /etc/systemd/system/ctrl-alt-del.target
 %dir %{pythonroot}/platform_util
 %{pythonroot}/platform_util/*
 %dir %{pythonroot}/platform_util-%{version}.0-py2.7.egg-info
 %{pythonroot}/platform_util-%{version}.0-py2.7.egg-info/*
-%{local_etc_initd}/log_functions.sh
+%{system_initd}/log_functions.sh
 
 %files -n platform-util-noncontroller
 %defattr(-,root,root,-)
diff --git a/utilities/platform-util/scripts/openstack-pod-cp.sh b/utilities/platform-util/scripts/openstack-pod-cp.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..de064d75e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/utilities/platform-util/scripts/openstack-pod-cp.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+#! /bin/bash
+
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Wind River Systems, Inc.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+#
+
+CLIENT_IMAGE_NAME="openstack-clients"
+NAMESPACE="openstack"
+STATE="Running"
+MOUNT_PATH="/scratch"
+POD_NAME=$(kubectl -n ${NAMESPACE} get pods -o wide 2>&1 |grep ${CLIENT_IMAGE_NAME} |grep ${STATE} |awk '{print $1}')
+
+declare -A levels=([DEBUG]=0 [INFO]=1 [WARN]=2 [ERROR]=3)
+script_log_level="ERROR"
+
+log_message() {
+    local log_message=$1
+    local log_message_priority=$2
+
+    # check if we provide and invalid log level
+    if [ -z "${levels[$log_message_priority]}" ]; then
+        return 1
+    fi
+
+    #check if the log level is above the script log level
+    if [ ${levels[$log_message_priority]} -lt ${levels[$script_log_level]} ]; then
+        return 2
+    fi
+
+    echo "${log_message_priority}: ${log_message}"
+}
+
+if [ -z "${POD_NAME}" ]; then
+    log_message "No ${CLIENT_IMAGE_NAME} pod found" "ERROR"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+if [ "$#" -ne 0 ]; then
+    param="$1"
+    if [ "${param}" == "-d" ]; then
+        MOUNT_PATH="$2"
+        log_message "Destination override = ${MOUNT_PATH}" "DEBUG"
+        shift
+        shift
+    fi
+fi
+
+if [ "$#" -eq 0 ]; then
+    log_message "Invalid number of parameters" "ERROR"
+    log_message "Usage: $0 [-d destination] <file_or_directory_path...>" "ERROR"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+for file_name in "$@"; do
+    if [[ ! -d "$file_name" && ! -f "$file_name" ]]; then
+        log_message "Given file \"${file_name}\" not a file or directory" "ERROR"
+        exit 1
+    fi
+done
+
+for file_name in "$@"; do
+    log_message "Copying file \"${file_name}\" to pod \"${POD_NAME}\"" "DEBUG"
+    kubectl cp "${file_name}" "${NAMESPACE}/${POD_NAME}:${MOUNT_PATH}/"
+done
+
diff --git a/utilities/platform-util/scripts/openstack-pod-exec.sh b/utilities/platform-util/scripts/openstack-pod-exec.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..956fdae8d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/utilities/platform-util/scripts/openstack-pod-exec.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Wind River Systems, Inc.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+#
+
+CLIENT_IMAGE_NAME="openstack-clients"
+NAMESPACE="openstack"
+STATE="Running"
+POD_NAME=$(kubectl -n ${NAMESPACE} get pods -o wide 2>&1 |grep ${CLIENT_IMAGE_NAME} |grep ${STATE} |awk '{print $1}')
+
+declare -A levels=([DEBUG]=0 [INFO]=1 [WARN]=2 [ERROR]=3)
+script_log_level="ERROR"
+
+log_message() {
+    local log_message=$1
+    local log_message_priority=$2
+
+    # check if we provide and invalid log level
+    if [ -z "${levels[$log_message_priority]}" ]; then
+        return 1
+    fi
+
+    #check if the log level is above the script log level
+    if [ ${levels[$log_message_priority]} -lt ${levels[$script_log_level]} ]; then
+        return 2
+    fi
+
+    echo "${log_message_priority}: ${log_message}"
+}
+
+if [ -z "${POD_NAME}" ]; then
+    log_message "No openstackclients pod found" "ERROR"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+log_message "Found clients pod: ${POD_NAME}" "DEBUG"
+
+# Pass stdin to the command only if we use a command that
+# is expected to be interactive (like opening an openstack
+# shell)
+# This script should only be accessed through the defined
+# aliases, so the first parameter is always passed.
+# Depending on the existence of the second parameter, we
+# decide if the command in interactive or not:
+# Examples:
+# - openstack (translates to ./openstack-pod-exec.sh openstack)
+#   only has one parameter and is expected to a open an
+#   interactive openstack shell
+# - openstack endpoint list (translates to ./openstack-pod-exec.sh
+#   openstack endpoint list) is expected to run just one command
+#   and return the output
+# If we had considered all commands as interactive, copying and
+# pasting an openstack command followed by any other command
+# would have passed all the input after the openstack call as
+# input to the pod through "kubectl exec" and not execute the
+# commands on the platform side.
+if [ -z "$2" ]; then
+    exec kubectl exec -ti -n ${NAMESPACE} ${POD_NAME} -- "$@"
+else
+    exec kubectl exec -t -n ${NAMESPACE} ${POD_NAME} -- "$@"
+fi
diff --git a/utilities/platform-util/scripts/osc-profile.sh b/utilities/platform-util/scripts/osc-profile.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ea7d3fbf5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/utilities/platform-util/scripts/osc-profile.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Wind River Systems, Inc.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+#
+
+if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" -o -n "$KSH_VERSION" -o -n "$ZSH_VERSION" ]; then
+    alias openstack >/dev/null 2>&1 || alias openstack='/usr/local/bin/openstack-pod-exec.sh openstack'
+    alias nova >/dev/null 2>&1 || alias nova='/usr/local/bin/openstack-pod-exec.sh nova'
+    alias platform-openstack >/dev/null 2>&1 || alias platform-openstack=/usr/bin/openstack
+fi