diff --git a/deployment/nova/nova-compute-container-puppet.yaml b/deployment/nova/nova-compute-container-puppet.yaml
index 4365746400..b947848c4b 100644
--- a/deployment/nova/nova-compute-container-puppet.yaml
+++ b/deployment/nova/nova-compute-container-puppet.yaml
@@ -545,6 +545,8 @@ outputs:
           - {get_attr: [ContainersCommon, container_config_scripts]}
           - {get_attr: [NovaComputeCommon, container_config_scripts]}
       docker_config:
+        step_2:
+          get_attr: [NovaLogging, docker_config, step_2]
         step_3:
           nova_statedir_owner:
             image: &nova_compute_image {get_param: DockerNovaComputeImage}
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/nova_compute_fix_log_permissions-e866f91848d647fb.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/nova_compute_fix_log_permissions-e866f91848d647fb.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9cd72dc514
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/nova_compute_fix_log_permissions-e866f91848d647fb.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+---
+fixes:
+  - |
+    [1] switched to run nova-manage discovery as non root user. In case of
+    updates there can be already a nove-manage log owned by root from previous
+    runs. This change make sure we change the owner of nova-manage log to
+    nova:nova on overcloud deploy runs on the computes
+
+    [1] https://review.opendev.org/#/c/652039/13/deployment/nova/nova-compute-container-puppet.yaml