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+### initial folders
+function ewriteln() {
+	echo ${1} | tee -a $MY_PROJFOLDER/env.sh
+}
+
+export MY_PROJFOLDER=/artifacts
+echo "# Using folder '$MY_PROJFOLDER'"
+cd $MY_PROJFOLDER
+[ -f envs ] && mkdir envs
+[ -f yamls ] && mkdir yamls
+[ -f reports ] && mkdir reports
+[ -f tmp ] && mkdir tmp
+
+# move mcc konfig to default place
+if [ -f $MY_PROJFOLDER/mcc-kubeconfig.yaml ]; then
+    mv $MY_PROJFOLDER/mcc-kubeconfig.yaml $MY_PROJFOLDER/envs/mcc-kubeconfig.yaml
+fi
+if [ ! -f $MY_PROJFOLDER/envs/mcc-kubeconfig.yaml ]; then
+	echo "ERROR: MCC kubeconfig not found either at '$MY_PROJFOLDER/mcc-kubeconfig.yaml' or '$MY_PROJFOLDER/envs/mcc-kubeconfig.yaml'"
+fi
+echo " "
+
+### prepare needed variables
+echo "# Updating '$MY_PROJFOLDER/env.sh'"
+export KUBECONFIG=$MY_PROJFOLDER/envs/mcc-kubeconfig.yaml
+if [ ! -f $MY_PROJFOLDER/env.sh ]; then
+	touch $MY_PROJFOLDER/env.sh
+else
+	truncate -s 0 $MY_PROJFOLDER/env.sh
+	echo "$MY_PROJFOLDER/env.sh has been truncated"
+fi
+
+ewriteln "export MY_PROJFOLDER=/artifacts"
+# NS & CLUSTER
+cls=$(kubectl get cluster -A --no-headers | grep -v default)
+declare nn=()
+tifs=$IFS
+IFS=" "
+echo $cls | cut -d" " -f1-2 | while read -r -a nn;
+do
+    ewriteln "export MOS_NS=$(echo ${nn[0]})"
+    ewriteln "export MOS_CLUSTER=$(echo ${nn[1]})"
+done
+IFS=$tifs
+ewriteln "export MOS_SC=kubernetes-nvme"
+ewriteln "export OSH_DEPLOYMENT_NAME='avt-openstack'"
+ewriteln "export SI_BINARIES_DIR=$(which helm | rev | cut -d'/' -f2- | rev)"
+ewriteln "export HELM_BINARY_PATH=$(which helm)"
+ewriteln "export TEMPEST_CUSTOM_PUBLIC_NET=public"
+ewriteln "export TEMPEST_CUSTOM_IMAGE=cvp.cirros.51"
+ewriteln "export TEMPEST_CUSTOM_IMAGE_ALT=cvp.cirros.52"
+ewriteln 'export TEMPEST_CUSTOM_PARAMETERS=$(cat /artifacts/yamls/tempest_custom.yaml)'
+
+# extract MOS kubeconfig
+echo " "
+echo "Extracting mos-kubeconfig.yaml"
+if [[ ! -z ${MOS_CLUSTER+x} ]]; then
+	kubectl --kubeconfig $MY_PROJFOLDER/envs/mcc-kubeconfig.yaml -n ${MOS_NS} get secrets ${MOS_CLUSTER}-kubeconfig -o jsonpath='{.data.admin\.conf}'  | base64 -d | sed 's/:5443/:443/g' | tee $MY_PROJFOLDER/envs/mos-kubeconfig.yaml
+else
+	echo "MOS_CLUSTER variable empty/invalid: '$MOS_CLUSTER'"
+fi
+
+# generate additional files
+echo "Preparing additional files"
+# copy files
+cp -v /opt/res-files/k8s/workspace/* $MY_PROJFOLDER/envs/
+
+# end
+echo " "
+echo "# Done!"