All the code that is in tempest-lib is stable interface that can be
consumed safely.
The code in tempest instead does not provide a guaranteed stable interface,
as it was not originally meant for external consumption.
So while you can import it, it may change without warning (i.e. with no new
I really do not want to see tempest code copied into the Octavia
repository. We cannot keep them in sync and maintain the tests that
way. It has been a recurring problem with neutron-lbaas that we are
trying to get back out of[1], so I really do not want to repeat that
with Octavia.
[1]
