diff --git a/deployment/placement/placement-api-container-puppet.yaml b/deployment/placement/placement-api-container-puppet.yaml
index 03e4d5c14c..7f7f1f7ca1 100644
--- a/deployment/placement/placement-api-container-puppet.yaml
+++ b/deployment/placement/placement-api-container-puppet.yaml
@@ -100,6 +100,12 @@ parameters:
     default: false
     description: Set to True to enable debugging Placement services.
     type: boolean
+  PlacementPolicies:
+    description: |
+      A hash of policies to configure for Placement API.
+      e.g. { nova-context_is_admin: { key: context_is_admin, value: 'role:admin' } }
+    default: {}
+    type: json
 
 conditions:
   placement_workers_zero: {equals : [{get_param: PlacementWorkers}, 0]}
@@ -173,6 +179,7 @@ outputs:
               - {get_param: Debug}
             placement::policy::enforce_new_defaults: {get_param: EnforceSecureRbac}
             placement::policy::enforce_scope: {get_param: EnforceSecureRbac}
+            placement::policy::policies: {get_param: PlacementPolicies}
             placement::wsgi::apache::api_port: '8778'
             placement::wsgi::apache::ssl: {get_param: EnableInternalTLS}
             # NOTE: bind IP is found in hiera replacing the network name with the local node IP
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/placement-policies-db2704ea63d0bdad.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/placement-policies-db2704ea63d0bdad.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..51f030597d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/placement-policies-db2704ea63d0bdad.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+---
+features:
+  - |
+    The new ``PlacementPolicies`` parameter has been added.