diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 3cab1c36..59a7be2f 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -55,3 +55,6 @@ contrib/vagrant/.vagrant
 # Configuration files
 etc/kuryr.conf
 etc/kuryr.conf.sample
+
+# Ignore user specific local.conf settings for vagrant
+contrib/vagrant/user_local.conf
diff --git a/contrib/vagrant/README.md b/contrib/vagrant/README.md
index 860e793a..9b9f9d6d 100644
--- a/contrib/vagrant/README.md
+++ b/contrib/vagrant/README.md
@@ -47,4 +47,21 @@ the definition of the Virtual Machine spawned:
  * **VAGRANT\_KURYR\_VM\_CPU**: To modify the cpus of the VM. Defaulted to: 2
  * **VAGRANT\_KURYR\_RUN\_DEVSTACK**: Whether `vagrant up` should run devstack to
    have an environment ready to use. Set it to 'false' if you want to edit
-   `local.conf` before run ./stack.sh manually in the VM. Defaulted to: true
+   `local.conf` before run ./stack.sh manually in the VM. Defaulted to: true.
+   See below for additional options for editing local.conf.
+
+Additional devstack configuration
+---------------------------------
+
+To add additional configuration to local.conf before the VM is provisioned, you can
+create a file called "user_local.conf" in the contrib/vagrant directory of
+networking-kuryr. This file will be appended to the "local.conf" created during the
+Vagrant provisioning.
+
+For example, to use OVN as the Neutron plugin with Kuryr, you can create a
+"user_local.conf" with the following configuration:
+
+    enable_plugin networking-ovn http://git.openstack.org/openstack/networking-ovn
+    enable_service ovn-northd
+    enable_service ovn-controller
+    disable_service q-agt
diff --git a/contrib/vagrant/devstack.sh b/contrib/vagrant/devstack.sh
index 7440d77f..3affe24a 100755
--- a/contrib/vagrant/devstack.sh
+++ b/contrib/vagrant/devstack.sh
@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@ then
 
   # copy local.conf.sample settings (source: kuryr/devstack/local.conf.sample)
   cp /devstack/local.conf.sample $DEVSTACK/local.conf
+  # If local settings are present, append them
+  if [ -f "/vagrant/user_local.conf" ]; then
+    cat /vagrant/user_local.conf >> $DEVSTACK/local.conf
+  fi
   chown "$OS_USER":"$OS_USER" "$DEVSTACK"/local.conf
 
 fi