diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/user_rc-9d530bd4b31cebaa.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/user_rc-9d530bd4b31cebaa.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9f8e6ea6c9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/user_rc-9d530bd4b31cebaa.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+---
+features:
+  - |
+    Added possibility to source environment variables from a user file that
+    will have prescedence over all environemnt variables loaded after
+    openstack-ansible.rc and have prescedence over all variables defined there
+    By default path to the user file is ``/etc/openstack_deploy/user.rc``.
diff --git a/scripts/openstack-ansible.sh b/scripts/openstack-ansible.sh
index ede218d30a..7d6fa2e2fb 100644
--- a/scripts/openstack-ansible.sh
+++ b/scripts/openstack-ansible.sh
@@ -55,6 +55,12 @@ if [[ "${PWD}" == *"${OSA_CLONE_ROOT}"* ]] || [ "${RUN_CMD}" == "openstack-ansib
      fi
   fi
 
+  OSA_USER_RC="${OSA_USER_RC:-${OSA_CONFIG_DIR}/user.rc}"
+
+  if [[ -f ${OSA_USER_RC} ]]; then
+    source ${OSA_USER_RC}
+  fi
+
   # Check whether there are any user configuration files
   if ls -1 ${OSA_CONFIG_DIR}/user_*.yml &> /dev/null; then