diff --git a/keystoneauth1/discover.py b/keystoneauth1/discover.py
index b8c768c6..00b9752a 100644
--- a/keystoneauth1/discover.py
+++ b/keystoneauth1/discover.py
@@ -119,6 +119,28 @@ def get_version_data(session, url, authenticated=None):
         except KeyError:
             pass
 
+        # Older Ironic does not actually return a discovery document for the
+        # single version discovery endpoint, which confuses the single-version
+        # fallback logic. While there are no known other services returning
+        # min/max ranges using headers instead of body, this is done in a
+        # non-Ironic specific manner just in case.
+        # The existence of this support should not be an indication to any
+        # OpenStack services that they should ADD this.
+        if 'id' in body_resp:
+            body_resp['status'] = Status.CURRENT
+            for header in resp.headers:
+                # We lose the case-insensitive quality here
+                header = header.lower()
+                if not header.startswith('x-openstack'):
+                    continue
+                # Once the body starts having these values, stop overriding
+                # with the header values
+                if header.endswith('api-minimum-version'):
+                    body_resp.setdefault('min_version', resp.headers[header])
+                if header.endswith('api-maximum-version'):
+                    body_resp.setdefault('version', resp.headers[header])
+            return [body_resp]
+
         # Otherwise if we query an endpoint like /v2.0 then we will get back
         # just the one available version.
         try:
@@ -742,7 +764,7 @@ class Discover(object):
         # so that they know what version they got. We can return the first
         # entry from version_data, because the user hasn't requested anything
         # different.
-        if no_version and url:
+        if no_version and url and len(version_data) > 0:
             return version_data[0]
 
         # We couldn't find a match.
@@ -1121,6 +1143,9 @@ class EndpointData(object):
                     " and {max_version}".format(
                         min_version=version_to_string(min_version),
                         max_version=version_to_string(max_version)))
+            else:
+                raise exceptions.DiscoveryFailure(
+                    "No version data found remotely at all")
 
         self.min_microversion = discovered_data['min_microversion']
         self.max_microversion = discovered_data['max_microversion']
diff --git a/keystoneauth1/tests/unit/test_discovery.py b/keystoneauth1/tests/unit/test_discovery.py
index cb035139..b0cdd9c0 100644
--- a/keystoneauth1/tests/unit/test_discovery.py
+++ b/keystoneauth1/tests/unit/test_discovery.py
@@ -560,6 +560,72 @@ class VersionDataTests(utils.TestCase):
 
         self.assertTrue(mock.called_once)
 
+    def test_version_data_ironic_microversions(self):
+        """Validate detection of Ironic microversion ranges."""
+        ironic_url = 'https://bare-metal.example.com/v1/'
+        self.requests_mock.get(
+            ironic_url, status_code=200,
+            json={
+                'id': 'v1',
+                'links': [{
+                    "href": ironic_url,
+                    "rel": "self"}],
+                'version': '1.40',
+                'min_version': '1.10',
+            },
+            # Keep headers so we can verify that body trumps headers
+            headers={
+                'X-OpenStack-Ironic-API-Minimum-Version': '1.3',
+                'X-OpenStack-Ironic-API-Maximum-Version': '1.21',
+            })
+
+        self.assertEqual(
+            [
+                {
+                    'collection': None,
+                    'version': (1, 0),
+                    'url': ironic_url,
+                    'status': discover.Status.CURRENT,
+                    'raw_status': discover.Status.CURRENT,
+                    'min_microversion': (1, 10),
+                    'max_microversion': (1, 40),
+                    'next_min_version': None,
+                    'not_before': None,
+                },
+            ],
+            discover.Discover(self.session, ironic_url).version_data())
+
+    def test_version_data_legacy_ironic_microversions(self):
+        """Validate detection of legacy Ironic microversion ranges."""
+        ironic_url = 'https://bare-metal.example.com/v1/'
+        self.requests_mock.get(
+            ironic_url, status_code=200,
+            json={
+                'id': 'v1',
+                'links': [{
+                    "href": ironic_url,
+                    "rel": "self"}]},
+            headers={
+                'X-OpenStack-Ironic-API-Minimum-Version': '1.3',
+                'X-OpenStack-Ironic-API-Maximum-Version': '1.21',
+            })
+
+        self.assertEqual(
+            [
+                {
+                    'collection': None,
+                    'version': (1, 0),
+                    'url': ironic_url,
+                    'status': discover.Status.CURRENT,
+                    'raw_status': discover.Status.CURRENT,
+                    'min_microversion': (1, 3),
+                    'max_microversion': (1, 21),
+                    'next_min_version': None,
+                    'not_before': None,
+                },
+            ],
+            discover.Discover(self.session, ironic_url).version_data())
+
     def test_version_data_microversions(self):
         """Validate [min_|max_]version conversion to {min|max}_microversion."""
         def setup_mock(versions_in):
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/ironic-microversions-a69bf92ab21f0cf5.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/ironic-microversions-a69bf92ab21f0cf5.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..bb27acec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/ironic-microversions-a69bf92ab21f0cf5.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+fixes:
+  - |
+    Fixed support for detecting microversion ranges on older Ironic
+    installations.