diff --git a/doc/source/conf.py b/doc/source/conf.py
index f11d96a..b9e22b5 100644
--- a/doc/source/conf.py
+++ b/doc/source/conf.py
@@ -155,8 +155,7 @@
 git_cmd = ["git", "log", "--pretty=format:'%ad, commit %h'", "--date=local",
    "-n1"]
 try:
-    html_last_updated_fmt = str(
-        subprocess.Popen(git_cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0])
+    html_last_updated_fmt = subprocess.check_output(git_cmd).decode('utf-8')
 except Exception:
     warnings.warn('Cannot get last updated time from git repository. '
                   'Not setting "html_last_updated_fmt".')
diff --git a/tempest/api/volume/admin/test_volumes_actions.py b/tempest/api/volume/admin/test_volumes_actions.py
index acff7cd..b81a477 100644
--- a/tempest/api/volume/admin/test_volumes_actions.py
+++ b/tempest/api/volume/admin/test_volumes_actions.py
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
     @test.services('compute')
     def test_force_detach_volume(self):
         # Create a server and a volume
-        server_id = self.create_server(wait_until='ACTIVE')['id']
+        server_id = self.create_server()['id']
         volume_id = self.create_volume()['id']
 
         # Attach volume
diff --git a/tempest/api/volume/base.py b/tempest/api/volume/base.py
index eace92d..8d66156 100644
--- a/tempest/api/volume/base.py
+++ b/tempest/api/volume/base.py
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@
                 cls.snapshots_client.wait_for_resource_deletion,
                 snapshot)
 
-    def create_server(self, **kwargs):
+    def create_server(self, wait_until='ACTIVE', **kwargs):
         name = kwargs.pop(
             'name',
             data_utils.rand_name(self.__class__.__name__ + '-instance'))
@@ -227,6 +227,7 @@
             self.os_primary,
             tenant_network=tenant_network,
             name=name,
+            wait_until=wait_until,
             **kwargs)
 
         self.addCleanup(test_utils.call_and_ignore_notfound_exc,
diff --git a/tempest/api/volume/test_volumes_actions.py b/tempest/api/volume/test_volumes_actions.py
index 0e7f1e9..8541c6d 100644
--- a/tempest/api/volume/test_volumes_actions.py
+++ b/tempest/api/volume/test_volumes_actions.py
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
     @test.services('compute')
     def test_attach_detach_volume_to_instance(self):
         # Create a server
-        server = self.create_server(wait_until='ACTIVE')
+        server = self.create_server()
         # Volume is attached and detached successfully from an instance
         self.volumes_client.attach_volume(self.volume['id'],
                                           instance_uuid=server['id'],
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@
     @test.services('compute')
     def test_get_volume_attachment(self):
         # Create a server
-        server = self.create_server(wait_until='ACTIVE')
+        server = self.create_server()
         # Verify that a volume's attachment information is retrieved
         self.volumes_client.attach_volume(self.volume['id'],
                                           instance_uuid=server['id'],
diff --git a/tempest/api/volume/test_volumes_backup.py b/tempest/api/volume/test_volumes_backup.py
index 5ad209c..da4324a 100644
--- a/tempest/api/volume/test_volumes_backup.py
+++ b/tempest/api/volume/test_volumes_backup.py
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@
         volume = self.create_volume()
         self.addCleanup(self.volumes_client.delete_volume,
                         volume['id'])
-        server = self.create_server(wait_until='ACTIVE')
+        server = self.create_server()
         # Attach volume to instance
         self.attach_volume(server['id'], volume['id'])
         # Create backup using force flag
diff --git a/tempest/api/volume/test_volumes_negative.py b/tempest/api/volume/test_volumes_negative.py
index 9180088..4e19e62 100644
--- a/tempest/api/volume/test_volumes_negative.py
+++ b/tempest/api/volume/test_volumes_negative.py
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@
     @decorators.idempotent_id('f5e56b0a-5d02-43c1-a2a7-c9b792c2e3f6')
     @test.services('compute')
     def test_attach_volumes_with_nonexistent_volume_id(self):
-        server = self.create_server(wait_until='ACTIVE')
+        server = self.create_server()
 
         self.assertRaises(lib_exc.NotFound,
                           self.volumes_client.attach_volume,
diff --git a/tempest/api/volume/test_volumes_snapshots.py b/tempest/api/volume/test_volumes_snapshots.py
index 99918eb..44c1def 100644
--- a/tempest/api/volume/test_volumes_snapshots.py
+++ b/tempest/api/volume/test_volumes_snapshots.py
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
     @test.services('compute')
     def test_snapshot_create_delete_with_volume_in_use(self):
         # Create a test instance
-        server = self.create_server(wait_until='ACTIVE')
+        server = self.create_server()
         self.attach_volume(server['id'], self.volume_origin['id'])
 
         # Snapshot a volume which attached to an instance with force=False
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
         snapshot1 = self.create_snapshot(self.volume_origin['id'])
 
         # Create a server and attach it
-        server = self.create_server(wait_until='ACTIVE')
+        server = self.create_server()
         self.attach_volume(server['id'], self.volume_origin['id'])
 
         # Now that the volume is attached, create another snapshots
diff --git a/tempest/common/utils/linux/remote_client.py b/tempest/common/utils/linux/remote_client.py
index 5ab980b..99a628e 100644
--- a/tempest/common/utils/linux/remote_client.py
+++ b/tempest/common/utils/linux/remote_client.py
@@ -93,12 +93,12 @@
     def get_nic_name_by_mac(self, address):
         cmd = "ip -o link | awk '/%s/ {print $2}'" % address
         nic = self.exec_command(cmd)
-        return nic.strip().strip(":").lower()
+        return nic.strip().strip(":").split('@')[0].lower()
 
     def get_nic_name_by_ip(self, address):
         cmd = "ip -o addr | awk '/%s/ {print $2}'" % address
         nic = self.exec_command(cmd)
-        return nic.strip().strip(":").lower()
+        return nic.strip().strip(":").split('@')[0].lower()
 
     def get_dns_servers(self):
         cmd = 'cat /etc/resolv.conf'
diff --git a/tempest/scenario/test_network_basic_ops.py b/tempest/scenario/test_network_basic_ops.py
index 9aeedad..4efeffd 100644
--- a/tempest/scenario/test_network_basic_ops.py
+++ b/tempest/scenario/test_network_basic_ops.py
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@
         ssh_client.exec_command("sudo ip link set %s up" % new_nic)
 
     def _get_server_nics(self, ssh_client):
-        reg = re.compile(r'(?P<num>\d+): (?P<nic_name>\w+):')
+        reg = re.compile(r'(?P<num>\d+): (?P<nic_name>\w+)[@]?.*:')
         ipatxt = ssh_client.exec_command("ip address")
         return reg.findall(ipatxt)
 
diff --git a/tools/check_logs.py b/tools/check_logs.py
index f82b387..fc21f75 100755
--- a/tools/check_logs.py
+++ b/tools/check_logs.py
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@
 import six.moves.urllib.request as urlreq
 import yaml
 
-
 # DEVSTACK_GATE_GRENADE is either unset if grenade is not running
 # or a string describing what type of grenade run to perform.
 is_grenade = os.environ.get('DEVSTACK_GATE_GRENADE') is not None
@@ -137,7 +136,7 @@
     with open(WHITELIST_FILE) as stream:
         loaded = yaml.safe_load(stream)
         if loaded:
-            for (name, l) in loaded.iteritems():
+            for (name, l) in six.iteritems(loaded):
                 for w in l:
                     assert 'module' in w, 'no module in %s' % name
                     assert 'message' in w, 'no message in %s' % name
diff --git a/tools/find_stack_traces.py b/tools/find_stack_traces.py
index 2ba8b16..1f2b88b 100755
--- a/tools/find_stack_traces.py
+++ b/tools/find_stack_traces.py
@@ -126,8 +126,8 @@
 
 
 def print_stats(items, fname, verbose=False):
-    errors = len(filter(lambda x: x.level == "ERROR", items))
-    traces = len(filter(lambda x: x.level == "TRACE", items))
+    errors = len([x for x in items if x.level == "ERROR"])
+    traces = len([x for x in items if x.level == "TRACE"])
     print("%d ERRORS found in %s" % (errors, fname))
     print("%d TRACES found in %s" % (traces, fname))
 
diff --git a/tools/generate-tempest-plugins-list.py b/tools/generate-tempest-plugins-list.py
index acb29af..8d26c25 100644
--- a/tools/generate-tempest-plugins-list.py
+++ b/tools/generate-tempest-plugins-list.py
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
 # json library won't choke.
 projects = sorted(filter(is_in_openstack_namespace, json.loads(r.text[4:])))
 
-found_plugins = filter(has_tempest_plugin, projects)
+found_plugins = list(filter(has_tempest_plugin, projects))
 
 # Every element of the found_plugins list begins with "openstack/".
 # We drop those initial 10 octets when printing the list.