diff --git a/docs/release-notes.md b/docs/release-notes.md
index 5de191ab9..8fd6beb42 100644
--- a/docs/release-notes.md
+++ b/docs/release-notes.md
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ Starting with this release, ignition-validate binaries are signed with the
 ### Features
 
 - Add Azure blob support for fetching ignition configs
+- Support IONOS Cloud
 
 ### Changes
 
diff --git a/docs/supported-platforms.md b/docs/supported-platforms.md
index eef319b22..22cfb5903 100644
--- a/docs/supported-platforms.md
+++ b/docs/supported-platforms.md
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ Ignition is currently supported for the following platforms:
 * [Hetzner Cloud] (`hetzner`) - Ignition will read its configuration from the instance userdata. Cloud SSH keys are handled separately.
 * [Microsoft Hyper-V] (`hyperv`) - Ignition will read its configuration from the `ignition.config` key in pool 0 of the Hyper-V Data Exchange Service (KVP). Values are limited to approximately 1 KiB of text, so Ignition can also read and concatenate multiple keys named `ignition.config.0`, `ignition.config.1`, and so on.
 * [IBM Cloud] (`ibmcloud`) - Ignition will read its configuration from the instance userdata. Cloud SSH keys are handled separately.
+* [IONOS Cloud] (`ionoscloud`) - Ignition will read its configuration from an injected user-data file. Per default the user-data is injected in a disk or partition with the label `OEM` and location `/config/user-data`. If this is different for your image build process or configuration you can customize the location for fetching the data using the kernel flags `deviceLabelKernelFlag` and `userDataKernelFlag`.
 * [KubeVirt] (`kubevirt`) - Ignition will read its configuration from the instance userdata via config drive. Cloud SSH keys are handled separately.
 * Bare Metal (`metal`) - Use the `ignition.config.url` kernel parameter to provide a URL to the configuration. The URL can use the `http://`, `https://`, `tftp://`, `s3://`, `arn:`, or `gs://` schemes to specify a remote config.
 * [Nutanix] (`nutanix`) - Ignition will read its configuration from the instance userdata via config drive. Cloud SSH keys are handled separately.
@@ -52,6 +53,7 @@ For most cloud providers, cloud SSH keys and custom network configuration are ha
 [Hetzner Cloud]: https://www.hetzner.com/cloud
 [Microsoft Hyper-V]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-windows/
 [IBM Cloud]: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/vpc
+[IONOS Cloud]: https://cloud.ionos.com/
 [KubeVirt]: https://kubevirt.io
 [Nutanix]: https://www.nutanix.com/products/ahv
 [OpenStack]: https://www.openstack.org/
diff --git a/internal/providers/ionoscloud/ionoscloud.go b/internal/providers/ionoscloud/ionoscloud.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..830fd5d8b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/providers/ionoscloud/ionoscloud.go
@@ -0,0 +1,208 @@
+// Copyright 2024 Red Hat, Inc.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+//
+// NOTE: This provider is still EXPERIMENTAL.
+//
+// The IONOS Cloud provider fetches the ignition config from a user-data file.
+// This file is created by the IONOS Cloud VM handler before the first boot
+// and gets injected into a device at /config/user-data by default.
+//
+// The kernel parameters deviceLabelKernelFlag and userDataKernelFlag can be
+// used during the build process of images and for the VM initialization to
+// specify on which disk or partition the user-data is going to be injected.
+//
+// User data files with the directive #cloud-config and #!/bin/ will be ignored
+// See for more: https://docs.ionos.com/cloud/compute-services/compute-engine/how-tos/boot-cloud-init
+
+package ionoscloud
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+	"os/exec"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/coreos/ignition/v2/config/v3_6_experimental/types"
+	"github.com/coreos/ignition/v2/internal/distro"
+	"github.com/coreos/ignition/v2/internal/log"
+	"github.com/coreos/ignition/v2/internal/platform"
+	"github.com/coreos/ignition/v2/internal/providers/util"
+	"github.com/coreos/ignition/v2/internal/resource"
+	ut "github.com/coreos/ignition/v2/internal/util"
+
+	"github.com/coreos/vcontext/report"
+)
+
+const (
+	deviceLabelKernelFlag = "ignition.config.device"
+	defaultDeviceLabel    = "OEM"
+	userDataKernelFlag    = "ignition.config.path"
+	defaultUserDataPath   = "config/user-data"
+)
+
+func init() {
+	platform.Register(platform.Provider{
+		Name:  "ionoscloud",
+		Fetch: fetchConfig,
+	})
+}
+
+func fetchConfig(f *resource.Fetcher) (types.Config, report.Report, error) {
+	var data []byte
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 30*time.Second)
+
+	dispatch := func(name string, fn func() ([]byte, error)) {
+		raw, err := fn()
+		if err != nil {
+			switch err {
+			case context.Canceled:
+			case context.DeadlineExceeded:
+				f.Logger.Err("timed out while fetching config from %s", name)
+			default:
+				f.Logger.Err("failed to fetch config from %s: %v", name, err)
+			}
+			return
+		}
+
+		data = raw
+		cancel()
+	}
+
+	deviceLabel, userDataPath, err := readFromKernelParams(f.Logger)
+
+	if err != nil {
+		f.Logger.Err("couldn't read kernel parameters: %v", err)
+		return types.Config{}, report.Report{}, err
+	}
+
+	if deviceLabel == "" {
+		deviceLabel = defaultDeviceLabel
+	}
+
+	if userDataPath == "" {
+		userDataPath = defaultUserDataPath
+	}
+
+	go dispatch(
+		"load config from disk", func() ([]byte, error) {
+			return fetchConfigFromDevice(f.Logger, ctx, deviceLabel, userDataPath)
+		},
+	)
+
+	<-ctx.Done()
+	if ctx.Err() == context.DeadlineExceeded {
+		f.Logger.Info("disk was not available in time. Continuing without a config...")
+	}
+
+	return util.ParseConfig(f.Logger, data)
+}
+
+func fileExists(path string) bool {
+	_, err := os.Stat(path)
+	return (err == nil)
+}
+
+func fetchConfigFromDevice(logger *log.Logger,
+	ctx context.Context,
+	deviceLabel string,
+	dataPath string,
+) ([]byte, error) {
+	device := filepath.Join(distro.DiskByLabelDir(), deviceLabel)
+	for !fileExists(device) {
+		logger.Debug("disk (%q) not found. Waiting...", device)
+		select {
+		case <-time.After(time.Second):
+		case <-ctx.Done():
+			return nil, ctx.Err()
+		}
+	}
+
+	logger.Debug("creating temporary mount point")
+	mnt, err := os.MkdirTemp("", "ignition-config")
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to create temp directory: %v", err)
+	}
+	defer os.Remove(mnt)
+
+	cmd := exec.Command(distro.MountCmd(), "-o", "ro", "-t", "auto", device, mnt)
+	if _, err := logger.LogCmd(cmd, "mounting disk"); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	defer func() {
+		_ = logger.LogOp(
+			func() error {
+				return ut.UmountPath(mnt)
+			},
+			"unmounting %q at %q", device, mnt,
+		)
+	}()
+
+	if !fileExists(filepath.Join(mnt, dataPath)) {
+		return nil, nil
+	}
+
+	contents, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(mnt, dataPath))
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	if util.IsCloudConfig(contents) {
+		logger.Debug("disk (%q) contains a cloud-config configuration, ignoring", device)
+		return nil, nil
+	}
+
+	if util.IsShellScript(contents) {
+		logger.Debug("disk (%q) contains a shell script, ignoring", device)
+		return nil, nil
+	}
+
+	return contents, nil
+}
+
+func readFromKernelParams(logger *log.Logger) (string, string, error) {
+	args, err := os.ReadFile(distro.KernelCmdlinePath())
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", "", err
+	}
+
+	deviceLabel, userDataPath := parseParams(args)
+	logger.Debug("parsed device label from parameters: %s", deviceLabel)
+	logger.Debug("parsed user-data path from parameters: %s", userDataPath)
+	return deviceLabel, userDataPath, nil
+}
+
+func parseParams(args []byte) (deviceLabel, userDataPath string) {
+	for _, arg := range strings.Split(string(args), " ") {
+		parts := strings.SplitN(strings.TrimSpace(arg), "=", 2)
+		if len(parts) != 2 {
+			continue
+		}
+
+		key := parts[0]
+		value := parts[1]
+
+		if key == deviceLabelKernelFlag {
+			deviceLabel = value
+		}
+
+		if key == userDataKernelFlag {
+			userDataPath = value
+		}
+	}
+
+	return
+}
diff --git a/internal/providers/proxmoxve/proxmoxve.go b/internal/providers/proxmoxve/proxmoxve.go
index 490bfe30f..b0dbb481b 100644
--- a/internal/providers/proxmoxve/proxmoxve.go
+++ b/internal/providers/proxmoxve/proxmoxve.go
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
 package proxmoxve
 
 import (
-	"bytes"
 	"context"
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
@@ -132,8 +131,7 @@ func fetchConfigFromDevice(logger *log.Logger, ctx context.Context, path string)
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
-	header := []byte("#cloud-config\n")
-	if bytes.HasPrefix(contents, header) {
+	if util.IsCloudConfig(contents) {
 		logger.Debug("config drive (%q) contains a cloud-config configuration, ignoring", path)
 		return nil, nil
 	}
diff --git a/internal/providers/util/cloudconfig.go b/internal/providers/util/cloudconfig.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b57d30eb9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/providers/util/cloudconfig.go
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+// Copyright 2024 Red Hat, Inc.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+package util
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+)
+
+func IsCloudConfig(contents []byte) bool {
+	header := []byte("#cloud-config\n")
+	return bytes.HasPrefix(contents, header)
+}
+
+func IsShellScript(contents []byte) bool {
+	header := []byte("#!/bin/\n")
+	return bytes.HasPrefix(contents, header)
+}
diff --git a/internal/register/providers.go b/internal/register/providers.go
index bda4b7cfe..63249c7df 100644
--- a/internal/register/providers.go
+++ b/internal/register/providers.go
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ import (
 	_ "github.com/coreos/ignition/v2/internal/providers/hetzner"
 	_ "github.com/coreos/ignition/v2/internal/providers/hyperv"
 	_ "github.com/coreos/ignition/v2/internal/providers/ibmcloud"
+	_ "github.com/coreos/ignition/v2/internal/providers/ionoscloud"
 	_ "github.com/coreos/ignition/v2/internal/providers/kubevirt"
 	_ "github.com/coreos/ignition/v2/internal/providers/metal"
 	_ "github.com/coreos/ignition/v2/internal/providers/nutanix"