diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/configshell/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/configshell/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b0a563126e22
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/configshell/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, buildPythonPackage, pyparsing, six }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "configshell";
+  version = "1.1.fb25";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "open-iscsi";
+    repo ="${pname}-fb";
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "0zpr2n4105qqsklyfyr9lzl1rhxjcv0mnsl57hgk0m763w6na90h";
+  };
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ pyparsing six ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "A Python library for building configuration shells";
+    homepage = https://github.com/open-iscsi/configshell-fb;
+    license = licenses.asl20;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index f5dbf37ba239..c2626721b8e3 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -995,6 +995,8 @@ in {
 
   colour = callPackage ../development/python-modules/colour {};
 
+  configshell = callPackage ../development/python-modules/configshell { };
+
   constantly = callPackage ../development/python-modules/constantly { };
 
   cornice = callPackage ../development/python-modules/cornice { };