diff --git a/tools/generatelabs b/tools/generatelabs
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..eb69b723
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/generatelabs
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# Used by tox.ini when checking build and publishing docs to website
+
+# Create tarball of labs scripts for Linux/OS X users
+bash -c "tar czf publish-docs/trunk/training-guides/labs-scripts.tgz labs"
+
+# Generate Windows batch scripts
+bash -c "labs/osbash.sh -w cluster"
+# Create zip file of labs scripts for Windows users
+bash -c "zip -r publish-docs/trunk/training-guides/labs-scripts.zip labs"
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 81bf65f5..20f707d6 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -37,9 +37,8 @@ commands = openstack-doc-test --check-deletions {posargs}
 commands =
   mkdir -p publish-docs/trunk/training-guides
   openstack-doc-test --check-build {posargs}
-  bash -c "tar czf publish-docs/trunk/training-guides/labs-scripts.tgz labs"
-  bash -c "labs/osbash.sh -w cluster"
-  bash -c "zip -r publish-docs/trunk/training-guides/labs-scripts.zip labs"
+  # Build labs scripts
+  bash {toxinidir}/tools/generatelabs
 
 [testenv:publishdocs]
 # Prepare all documents (except www subdir) so that they can get
@@ -51,9 +50,8 @@ commands =
   mkdir -p publish-docs/trunk/training-guides
   # We only publish changed manuals.
   openstack-doc-test --check-build --publish
-  bash -c "tar czf publish-docs/trunk/training-guides/labs-scripts.tgz labs"
-  bash -c "labs/osbash.sh -w cluster"
-  bash -c "zip -r publish-docs/trunk/training-guides/labs-scripts.zip labs"
+  # Build and publish training labs scripts
+  bash {toxinidir}/tools/generatelabs
 
 [testenv:checklang]
 # Generatedocbook needs xml2po which cannot be installed