diff --git a/ansible/roles/haproxy/tasks/config.yml b/ansible/roles/haproxy/tasks/config.yml
index acf75855c5..5e9a83cfc0 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/haproxy/tasks/config.yml
+++ b/ansible/roles/haproxy/tasks/config.yml
@@ -65,6 +65,13 @@
   notify:
     - Restart haproxy container
 
+- name: Load and persist keepalived module
+  import_role:
+    role: module-load
+  vars:
+    modules:
+      - {'name': ip_vs }
+
 - name: Copying over keepalived.conf
   vars:
     service: "{{ haproxy_services['keepalived'] }}"
diff --git a/ansible/roles/ironic/tasks/config.yml b/ansible/roles/ironic/tasks/config.yml
index 0d3627f357..10d68d1372 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/ironic/tasks/config.yml
+++ b/ansible/roles/ironic/tasks/config.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,11 @@
 ---
+- name: Load and persist iscsi_tcp module
+  import_role:
+    role: module-load
+  vars:
+    modules:
+      - {'name': iscsi_tcp}
+
 - name: Ensuring config directories exist
   file:
     path: "{{ node_config_directory }}/{{ item.key }}"
diff --git a/ansible/roles/module-load/defaults/main.yaml b/ansible/roles/module-load/defaults/main.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..25f6178386
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ansible/roles/module-load/defaults/main.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+---
+# Module name as a list of hashes:
+# modules:
+#   - { name: foo, params: 'bar baz' }
+#   - { name: starwars }
+#   - { name: starwars, state: absent }
+modules: []
diff --git a/ansible/roles/module-load/tasks/main.yaml b/ansible/roles/module-load/tasks/main.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a09c1aaec8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ansible/roles/module-load/tasks/main.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+---
+# Allow to get a clean way to load and persist kernel modules
+
+- name: Run tasks only for specific kolla_action
+  when:
+    - kolla_action != "config"
+  block:
+    - name: Check whether /etc/modules-load.d exists
+      stat:
+        path: /etc/modules-load.d
+      register: modules_load_stat
+
+    - name: "Load modules"
+      become: true
+      modprobe:
+        name: "{{ item.name }}"
+        params: "{{ item.params | default(omit) }}"
+        state: "{{ item.state | default('present') }}"
+      loop: "{{ modules }}"
+      loop_control:
+        label: "{{ item.name }}"
+
+    - name: "Persist modules via modules-load.d"
+      become: true
+      template:
+        dest: "/etc/modules-load.d/{{ item.name }}.conf"
+        src: module-load.conf.j2
+      loop: "{{ modules }}"
+      loop_control:
+        label: "{{ item.name }}"
+      when:
+        - modules_load_stat.stat.exists
+        - (item.state | default('present')) == 'present'
+
+    - name: "Drop module persistence"
+      become: true
+      file:
+        path: "/etc/modules-load.d/{{ item.name }}.conf"
+        state: absent
+      loop: "{{ modules }}"
+      loop_control:
+        label: "{{ item.name }}"
+      when:
+        - modules_load_stat.stat.exists
+        - (item.state | default('present')) == 'absent'
+
+    - name: "Persist modules via /etc/modules"
+      become: true
+      lineinfile:
+        dest: /etc/modules
+        line: "{{ item.name }} {{ item.params | default('') }}"
+        state: "{{ item.state | default('present') }}"
+      loop: "{{ modules }}"
+      loop_control:
+        label: "{{ item.name }}"
+      when: not modules_load_stat.stat.exists
diff --git a/ansible/roles/module-load/templates/module-load.conf.j2 b/ansible/roles/module-load/templates/module-load.conf.j2
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..21808b95ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ansible/roles/module-load/templates/module-load.conf.j2
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# {{ ansible_managed }}
+{{ item.name }} {{ item.params |default('') }}
diff --git a/ansible/roles/multipathd/tasks/config.yml b/ansible/roles/multipathd/tasks/config.yml
index bed2b99cad..ce4e7de548 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/multipathd/tasks/config.yml
+++ b/ansible/roles/multipathd/tasks/config.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,11 @@
 ---
+- name: Load and persist dm-multipath module
+  import_role:
+    role: module-load
+  vars:
+    modules:
+      - {'name': dm-multipath}
+
 - name: Ensuring config directories exist
   file:
     path: "{{ node_config_directory }}/{{ item.key }}"
diff --git a/ansible/roles/openvswitch/tasks/config.yml b/ansible/roles/openvswitch/tasks/config.yml
index a15a1e8d70..2d938c87f0 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/openvswitch/tasks/config.yml
+++ b/ansible/roles/openvswitch/tasks/config.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,11 @@
 ---
+- name: Load and persist openvswitch module
+  import_role:
+    role: module-load
+  vars:
+    modules:
+      - {'name': openvswitch}
+
 - name: Ensuring config directories exist
   become: true
   file:
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/module-load-946eaecb55cb31f0.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/module-load-946eaecb55cb31f0.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c97d05c92b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/module-load-946eaecb55cb31f0.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+features:
+  - Adds support for loading kernel modules required by containers. This is
+    required since kolla images are removing support for loading kernel modules
+    from within the container.