diff --git a/instack.answers.sample b/instack.answers.sample
index 330b321c6..26d4e16f1 100644
--- a/instack.answers.sample
+++ b/instack.answers.sample
@@ -7,6 +7,12 @@
 # scale will allow deployment of a single role only to homogenous hardware.
 DEPLOYMENT_MODE=poc
 
+### IMAGE_PATH ###
+# Local file path to the downloaded images.
+# The path should be a directory readable by the current user that contains
+# the full set of downloaded images.
+IMAGE_PATH=.
+
 ### LOCAL_IP ###
 # IP address to assign to the interface on the Undercloud that will
 # be handling the PXE boots and DHCP for Overcloud instances.
diff --git a/scripts/instack-apply-config b/scripts/instack-apply-config
index 53a711adf..bdb52af54 100755
--- a/scripts/instack-apply-config
+++ b/scripts/instack-apply-config
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ echo "Sourcing answers file from instack.answers..."
 source ~/instack.answers
 
 export DEPLOYMENT_MODE
+export IMAGE_PATH
 export LOCAL_IP
 export DNSMASQ_START
 export DNSMASQ_END
diff --git a/scripts/instack-install-undercloud-packages b/scripts/instack-install-undercloud-packages
index 4f3d18a5b..c2be41dad 100755
--- a/scripts/instack-install-undercloud-packages
+++ b/scripts/instack-install-undercloud-packages
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ echo "Sourcing answers file from instack.answers..."
 source ~/instack.answers
 
 export DEPLOYMENT_MODE
+export IMAGE_PATH
 export LOCAL_IP
 export DNSMASQ_START
 export DNSMASQ_END
diff --git a/scripts/instack-prepare-for-overcloud b/scripts/instack-prepare-for-overcloud
index c996a425c..1cbe665a4 100755
--- a/scripts/instack-prepare-for-overcloud
+++ b/scripts/instack-prepare-for-overcloud
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 set -eux
 
-IMG_SOURCE_URL=${IMG_SOURCE_URL:-"http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/openstack-m/tripleo-images-rdo-icehouse"}
+IMAGE_PATH=${IMAGE_PATH:-"."}
 
 export DEPLOY_NAME=${DEPLOY_NAME:-deploy-ramdisk}
 
@@ -21,39 +21,28 @@ if ! nova keypair-show default 2>&1 1>/dev/null; then
 	tripleo user-config
 fi
 
-function download_image {
-    local image_name=$1
+function check_image {
+    local image_name=$IMAGE_PATH/$1
 
     if [ ! -f $image_name ]; then
-        curl -L -O $IMG_SOURCE_URL/$image_name
-    fi
-
-    # Allow the download to fail, in case initrd/vmlinuz is not available,
-    # will fall back to old behavior of extraction via
-    # disk-image-get-kernel
-    if [[ "$image_name" =~ "overcloud" ]]; then
-        for f in vmlinuz initrd; do
-            local file_name=$(basename -s .qcow2 $image_name).$f
-            if [ ! -f $file_name ]; then
-                curl -L -O $IMG_SOURCE_URL/$file_name || true
-            fi
-        done
+        echo "$image_name does not exist."
+        exit 1
     fi
 }
 
 function load_image {
-    local image_name=$1
+    local image_name=$IMAGE_PATH/$1
 
     tripleo load-image -d $image_name
 }
 
-download_image $DEPLOY_NAME.initramfs
-download_image $DEPLOY_NAME.kernel
-download_image overcloud-control.qcow2
-download_image overcloud-compute.qcow2
-download_image overcloud-cinder-volume.qcow2
-download_image overcloud-swift-storage.qcow2
-download_image fedora-user.qcow2
+check_image $DEPLOY_NAME.initramfs
+check_image $DEPLOY_NAME.kernel
+check_image overcloud-control.qcow2
+check_image overcloud-compute.qcow2
+check_image overcloud-cinder-volume.qcow2
+check_image overcloud-swift-storage.qcow2
+check_image fedora-user.qcow2
 
 load_image overcloud-control.qcow2
 load_image overcloud-compute.qcow2
@@ -62,10 +51,10 @@ load_image overcloud-swift-storage.qcow2
 
 glance image-delete bm-deploy-kernel 2>/dev/null || :
 glance image-create --name bm-deploy-kernel --public \
-    --disk-format aki < $DEPLOY_NAME.kernel
+    --disk-format aki < $IMAGE_PATH/$DEPLOY_NAME.kernel
 glance image-delete bm-deploy-ramdisk 2>/dev/null || :
 glance image-create --name bm-deploy-ramdisk --public \
-    --disk-format ari < $DEPLOY_NAME.initramfs
+    --disk-format ari < $IMAGE_PATH/$DEPLOY_NAME.initramfs
 
 DEPLOYMENT_MODE=${DEPLOYMENT_MODE:-"poc"}
 if [ "$DEPLOYMENT_MODE" = "poc" ]; then