diff --git a/guides/snapshot.md b/guides/snapshot.md
index 64e1e24f7..0630fc948 100644
--- a/guides/snapshot.md
+++ b/guides/snapshot.md
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 # Snapshot Actions
 In this guide, we will look at some snapshot actions that allow you to manage and work with snapshots of your indices.
 
+A complete working sample for this guide can be found in [samples/snapshot](../samples/snapshot).
 
 ## Setup
 Let's create a client instance, and an index named `movies`:
diff --git a/samples/Dockerfile b/samples/snapshot/Dockerfile
similarity index 83%
rename from samples/Dockerfile
rename to samples/snapshot/Dockerfile
index 92a9befe5..b2f22e3b3 100644
--- a/samples/Dockerfile
+++ b/samples/snapshot/Dockerfile
@@ -6,4 +6,4 @@ ARG GID=1000
 
 RUN echo 'path.repo: ["/usr/share/opensearch/backups"]' >> $OPENSEARCH_HOME/config/opensearch.yml
 RUN mkdir -p $OPENSEARCH_HOME/backups 
-RUN chown -Rv $UID:$GID $OPENSEARCH_HOME/backups
\ No newline at end of file
+RUN chown -Rv $UID:$GID $OPENSEARCH_HOME/backups
diff --git a/samples/snapshot/README.md b/samples/snapshot/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ff947425f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/samples/snapshot/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+Run this sample as follows.
+
+```
+cd samples
+docker run --rm -p 9200:9200 -p 9600:9600 -e "discovery.type=single-node" -it $(docker build -q snapshot )
+poetry install
+poetry run python snapshot/snapshot_sample.py 
+```
diff --git a/samples/snapshot/snapshot_sample.py b/samples/snapshot/snapshot_sample.py
index b8081ba1b..ac512ed0f 100644
--- a/samples/snapshot/snapshot_sample.py
+++ b/samples/snapshot/snapshot_sample.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 # Modifications Copyright OpenSearch Contributors. See
 # GitHub history for details.
 
+import os
 import tempfile
 
 from opensearchpy import OpenSearch
@@ -17,7 +18,10 @@
 
 HOST = "localhost"
 PORT = 9200
-auth = ("admin", "admin")  # For testing only. Don't store credentials in code.
+auth = (
+    "admin",
+    os.getenv("OPENSEARCH_PASSWORD", "admin"),
+)  # For testing only. Don't store credentials in code.
 
 client = OpenSearch(
     hosts=[{"host": HOST, "port": PORT}],