diff --git a/HACKING.rst b/HACKING.rst
index ec7ff6a..480650c 100644
--- a/HACKING.rst
+++ b/HACKING.rst
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 - [T111] Check that service client names of DELETE should be consistent
 - [T112] Check that tempest.lib should not import local tempest code
 - [T113] Check that tests use data_utils.rand_uuid() instead of uuid.uuid4()
+- [T114] Check that tempest.lib does not use tempest config
 - [N322] Method's default argument shouldn't be mutable
 
 Test Data/Configuration
diff --git a/tempest/hacking/checks.py b/tempest/hacking/checks.py
index aff9dee..09106d1 100644
--- a/tempest/hacking/checks.py
+++ b/tempest/hacking/checks.py
@@ -256,6 +256,23 @@
     yield (0, msg)
 
 
+def dont_use_config_in_tempest_lib(logical_line, filename):
+    """Check that tempest.lib doesn't use tempest config
+
+    T114
+    """
+
+    if 'tempest/lib/' not in filename:
+        return
+
+    if ('tempest.config' in logical_line
+        or 'from tempest import config' in logical_line
+        or 'oslo_config' in logical_line):
+        msg = ('T114: tempest.lib can not have any dependency on tempest '
+               'config.')
+        yield(0, msg)
+
+
 def factory(register):
     register(import_no_clients_in_api_and_scenario_tests)
     register(scenario_tests_need_service_tags)
@@ -268,4 +285,5 @@
     register(get_resources_on_service_clients)
     register(delete_resources_on_service_clients)
     register(dont_import_local_tempest_into_lib)
+    register(dont_use_config_in_tempest_lib)
     register(use_rand_uuid_instead_of_uuid4)
diff --git a/tempest/tests/test_hacking.py b/tempest/tests/test_hacking.py
index aba2aab..f005c21 100644
--- a/tempest/tests/test_hacking.py
+++ b/tempest/tests/test_hacking.py
@@ -167,3 +167,16 @@
         self.assertEqual(1, len(list(checks.dont_import_local_tempest_into_lib(
             "import tempest.exception",
             './tempest/lib/common/compute.py'))))
+
+    def test_dont_use_config_in_tempest_lib(self):
+        self.assertFalse(list(checks.dont_use_config_in_tempest_lib(
+            'from tempest import config', './tempest/common/compute.py')))
+        self.assertFalse(list(checks.dont_use_config_in_tempest_lib(
+            'from oslo_concurrency import lockutils',
+            './tempest/lib/auth.py')))
+        self.assertTrue(list(checks.dont_use_config_in_tempest_lib(
+            'from tempest import config', './tempest/lib/auth.py')))
+        self.assertTrue(list(checks.dont_use_config_in_tempest_lib(
+            'from oslo_config import cfg', './tempest/lib/decorators.py')))
+        self.assertTrue(list(checks.dont_use_config_in_tempest_lib(
+            'import tempest.config', './tempest/lib/common/rest_client.py')))
diff --git a/tools/check_logs.py b/tools/check_logs.py
index e34dec3..caad85c 100755
--- a/tools/check_logs.py
+++ b/tools/check_logs.py
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@
 import os
 import re
 import six
+import six.moves.urllib.request as urlreq
 import sys
-import urllib2
 
 import yaml
 
@@ -67,9 +67,9 @@
                 logs_with_errors.append(name)
     for (name, url) in url_specs:
         whitelist = whitelists.get(name, [])
-        req = urllib2.Request(url)
+        req = urlreq.Request(url)
         req.add_header('Accept-Encoding', 'gzip')
-        page = urllib2.urlopen(req)
+        page = urlreq.urlopen(req)
         buf = six.StringIO(page.read())
         f = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=buf)
         if scan_content(name, f.read().splitlines(), regexp, whitelist):
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@
 
 
 def collect_url_logs(url):
-    page = urllib2.urlopen(url)
+    page = urlreq.urlopen(url)
     content = page.read()
     logs = re.findall('(screen-[\w-]+\.txt\.gz)</a>', content)
     return logs
diff --git a/tools/find_stack_traces.py b/tools/find_stack_traces.py
index 49a42fe..f2da27a 100755
--- a/tools/find_stack_traces.py
+++ b/tools/find_stack_traces.py
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@
 import pprint
 import re
 import six
+import six.moves.urllib.request as urlreq
 import sys
-import urllib2
 
 
 pp = pprint.PrettyPrinter()
@@ -65,9 +65,9 @@
 
 def hunt_for_stacktrace(url):
     """Return TRACE or ERROR lines out of logs."""
-    req = urllib2.Request(url)
+    req = urlreq.Request(url)
     req.add_header('Accept-Encoding', 'gzip')
-    page = urllib2.urlopen(req)
+    page = urlreq.urlopen(req)
     buf = six.StringIO(page.read())
     f = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=buf)
     content = f.read()
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@
 
 
 def collect_logs(url):
-    page = urllib2.urlopen(url)
+    page = urlreq.urlopen(url)
     content = page.read()
     logs = re.findall('(screen-[\w-]+\.txt\.gz)</a>', content)
     return logs