diff --git a/ci/environments/multinode-containers.yaml b/ci/environments/multinode-containers.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..899704190b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ci/environments/multinode-containers.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+# NOTE: This is an environment specific for containers upgrade
+# CI. Mainly we deploy non-pacemakerized overcloud, as at the time
+# being containerization of services managed by pacemaker is not
+# complete, so we deploy and upgrade the non-HA services for now.
+
+resource_registry:
+  OS::TripleO::Controller::Net::SoftwareConfig: ../common/net-config-multinode-os-net-config.yaml
+  OS::TripleO::Compute::Net::SoftwareConfig: ../common/net-config-multinode-os-net-config.yaml
+
+  # NOTE: This is needed because of upgrades from Ocata to Pike. We
+  # deploy the initial environment with Ocata templates, and
+  # overcloud-resource-registry.yaml there doesn't have this Docker
+  # mapping at all. After we stop CI'ing Ocata->Pike upgrade, we can
+  # remove this.
+  OS::TripleO::Services::Docker: OS::Heat::None
+
+parameter_defaults:
+  ControllerServices:
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::CephMon
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::CephOSD
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::CinderApi
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::CinderScheduler
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::CinderVolume
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::Docker
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::Kernel
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::Keystone
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::GlanceApi
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::HeatApi
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::HeatApiCfn
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::HeatApiCloudwatch
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::HeatEngine
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::MySQL
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::MySQLClient
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::NeutronDhcpAgent
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::NeutronL3Agent
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::NeutronMetadataAgent
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::NeutronServer
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::NeutronCorePlugin
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::NeutronOvsAgent
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::RabbitMQ
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::HAproxy
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::Keepalived
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::Memcached
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::Pacemaker
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::NovaConductor
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::NovaApi
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::NovaPlacement
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::NovaMetadata
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::NovaScheduler
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::Ntp
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::SwiftProxy
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::SwiftStorage
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::SwiftRingBuilder
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::Snmp
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::Timezone
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::TripleoPackages
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::NovaCompute
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::NovaLibvirt
+    - OS::TripleO::Services::Sshd
+  ControllerExtraConfig:
+    nova::compute::libvirt::services::libvirt_virt_type: qemu
+    nova::compute::libvirt::libvirt_virt_type: qemu
+    # Required for Centos 7.3 and Qemu 2.6.0
+    nova::compute::libvirt::libvirt_cpu_mode: 'none'
+    #NOTE(gfidente): not great but we need this to deploy on ext4
+    #http://docs.ceph.com/docs/jewel/rados/configuration/filesystem-recommendations/
+    ceph::profile::params::osd_max_object_name_len: 256
+    ceph::profile::params::osd_max_object_namespace_len: 64
+  SwiftCeilometerPipelineEnabled: False
+  Debug: True
diff --git a/docker/services/nova-libvirt.yaml b/docker/services/nova-libvirt.yaml
index ebf0da7d3f..9779d67613 100644
--- a/docker/services/nova-libvirt.yaml
+++ b/docker/services/nova-libvirt.yaml
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ parameters:
     description: image
     default: 'centos-binary-nova-compute:latest'
     type: string
+  EnablePackageInstall:
+    default: 'false'
+    description: Set to true to enable package installation
+    type: boolean
   ServiceNetMap:
     default: {}
     description: Mapping of service_name -> network name. Typically set
@@ -112,6 +116,7 @@ outputs:
                   - /var/run/libvirt:/var/run/libvirt
                   - /var/lib/libvirt:/var/lib/libvirt
                   - /etc/libvirt/qemu:/etc/libvirt/qemu
+                  - /var/log/libvirt/qemu:/var/log/libvirt/qemu:ro
                   - /var/log/containers/nova:/var/log/nova
             environment:
               - KOLLA_CONFIG_STRATEGY=COPY_ALWAYS
@@ -124,6 +129,22 @@ outputs:
             - /etc/libvirt/qemu
             - /var/lib/libvirt
             - /var/log/containers/nova
+        - name: set enable_package_install fact
+          set_fact:
+            enable_package_install: {get_param: EnablePackageInstall}
+        # We use virtlogd on host, so when using Deployed Server
+        # feature, we need to ensure libvirt is installed.
+        - name: install libvirt-daemon
+          package:
+            name: libvirt-daemon
+            state: present
+          when: enable_package_install
+        - name: start virtlogd socket
+          service:
+            name: virtlogd.socket
+            state: started
+            enabled: yes
+          when: enable_package_install
       upgrade_tasks:
         - name: Stop and disable libvirtd service
           tags: step2