diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fe6fa3c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+*.a
+*.egg
+*.egg-info
+*.o
+*.py[co]
+*.pyc
+*.so
+*.sqlite
+.*.swp
+.coverage
+.installed.cfg
+.testrepository
+.tox
+.venv
+AUTHORS
+ChangeLog
+_build
+build
+cover
+coverage.xml
+develop-eggs
+dist
+eggs
+sdist
+
+# Sphinx documentation
+doc/build/
+
+# Release Notes documentation
+releasenotes/build
+
+# Api Ref documentation
+api-ref/build/
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index a57dc2c..048f8b9 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
-stx-tis-repo
-============
+========
+tis-repo
+========
 
-Placeholder repo
+StarlingX Test In Staging
+
+This repo contains test jobs for OpenDev Zuul that pull from starlingx-staging.
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
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index 0000000..25c5388
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+[tox]
+minversion = 2.3
+skipsdist = True
+
+[testenv]
+basepython = python3
+whitelist_externals =
+  bash
+  find
+  rm
+  env
+  ls
+setenv =
+  VIRTUAL_ENV={envdir}
+  LANGUAGE=en_US
+  LC_ALL=en_US.utf-8
+  OS_STDOUT_CAPTURE=1
+  OS_STDERR_CAPTURE=1
+  OS_TEST_TIMEOUT=160
+  PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1
+
+[testenv:debug]
+envdir = {toxworkdir}/shared
+commands =
+  bash -c "pwd; cd ../../../stx-nova; git branch"
+  ls -l ../../../stx-nova
+
+[testenv:pep8]
+envdir = {toxworkdir}/shared
+commands =
+  bash -c "echo placeholder env: pep8"
+
+[testenv:functional]
+envdir = {toxworkdir}/shared
+commands =
+  bash -c "echo placeholder env: functional"