diff --git a/config.yaml b/config.yaml
index fe016e5f..501e6873 100644
--- a/config.yaml
+++ b/config.yaml
@@ -416,6 +416,23 @@ options:
     description: |
       List of filter class names to use for filtering hosts when not specified in
       the request.
+  pci-alias:
+    type: string
+    default:
+    description: |
+      The pci-passthrough-whitelist option of nova-compute charm is used for
+      specifying which PCI devices are allowed passthrough. pci-alias is more
+      a convenience that can be used in conjunction with Nova flavor properties
+      to automatically assign required PCI devices to new instances. You could,
+      for example, have a GPU flavor or a SR-IOV flavor:
+      
+        pci-alias='{"vendor_id":"8086","product_id":"10ca","name":"a1"}'
+      
+      This configures a new PCI alias 'a1' which will request a PCI device with
+      a vendor id of 0x8086 and a product id of 10ca.
+      
+      For more information about the syntax of pci_alias, refer to
+      https://docs.openstack.org/ocata/config-reference/compute/config-options.html
   api-rate-limit-rules:
     type: string
     default:
diff --git a/hooks/nova_cc_context.py b/hooks/nova_cc_context.py
index b971e545..8c416827 100644
--- a/hooks/nova_cc_context.py
+++ b/hooks/nova_cc_context.py
@@ -261,6 +261,8 @@ class NovaConfigContext(context.WorkerConfigContext):
     def __call__(self):
         ctxt = super(NovaConfigContext, self).__call__()
         ctxt['scheduler_default_filters'] = config('scheduler-default-filters')
+        if config('pci-alias'):
+            ctxt['pci_alias'] = config('pci-alias')
         ctxt['cpu_allocation_ratio'] = config('cpu-allocation-ratio')
         ctxt['ram_allocation_ratio'] = config('ram-allocation-ratio')
         addr = resolve_address(INTERNAL)
diff --git a/templates/kilo/nova.conf b/templates/kilo/nova.conf
index 31c1af97..5b0c7bf0 100644
--- a/templates/kilo/nova.conf
+++ b/templates/kilo/nova.conf
@@ -35,6 +35,9 @@ scheduler_default_filters = {{ scheduler_default_filters }},{{ additional_neutro
 {% else %}
 scheduler_default_filters = {{ scheduler_default_filters }}
 {% endif %}
+{% if pci_alias %}
+pci_alias = {{ pci_alias }}
+{% endif %}
 cpu_allocation_ratio = {{ cpu_allocation_ratio }}
 ram_allocation_ratio = {{ ram_allocation_ratio }}
 
diff --git a/templates/liberty/nova.conf b/templates/liberty/nova.conf
index 92c11bb3..347946b0 100644
--- a/templates/liberty/nova.conf
+++ b/templates/liberty/nova.conf
@@ -35,6 +35,9 @@ scheduler_default_filters = {{ scheduler_default_filters }},{{ additional_neutro
 {% else %}
 scheduler_default_filters = {{ scheduler_default_filters }}
 {% endif %}
+{% if pci_alias %}
+pci_alias = {{ pci_alias }}
+{% endif %}
 cpu_allocation_ratio = {{ cpu_allocation_ratio }}
 ram_allocation_ratio = {{ ram_allocation_ratio }}
 
diff --git a/templates/mitaka/nova.conf b/templates/mitaka/nova.conf
index e4134a1f..b10dd129 100644
--- a/templates/mitaka/nova.conf
+++ b/templates/mitaka/nova.conf
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ scheduler_default_filters = {{ scheduler_default_filters }},{{ additional_neutro
 {% else %}
 scheduler_default_filters = {{ scheduler_default_filters }}
 {% endif %}
+{% if pci_alias %}
+pci_alias = {{ pci_alias }}
+{% endif %}
 cpu_allocation_ratio = {{ cpu_allocation_ratio }}
 ram_allocation_ratio = {{ ram_allocation_ratio }}
 
diff --git a/templates/ocata/nova.conf b/templates/ocata/nova.conf
index 61b7630d..13da9028 100644
--- a/templates/ocata/nova.conf
+++ b/templates/ocata/nova.conf
@@ -183,3 +183,8 @@ auth_strategy=keystone
 
 [wsgi]
 api_paste_config=/etc/nova/api-paste.ini
+
+[pci]
+{% if pci_alias %}
+alias = {{ pci_alias }}
+{% endif %}