diff --git a/roles/kubernetes-apps/ingress_controller/ingress_nginx/defaults/main.yml b/roles/kubernetes-apps/ingress_controller/ingress_nginx/defaults/main.yml
index c83c8c3ed..2650136d8 100644
--- a/roles/kubernetes-apps/ingress_controller/ingress_nginx/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/roles/kubernetes-apps/ingress_controller/ingress_nginx/defaults/main.yml
@@ -19,5 +19,6 @@ ingress_nginx_without_class: true
 ingress_nginx_default: false
 ingress_nginx_webhook_enabled: false
 ingress_nginx_webhook_job_ttl: 1800
+ingress_nginx_opentelemetry_enabled: false
 
 ingress_nginx_probe_initial_delay_seconds: 10
diff --git a/roles/kubernetes-apps/ingress_controller/ingress_nginx/templates/ds-ingress-nginx-controller.yml.j2 b/roles/kubernetes-apps/ingress_controller/ingress_nginx/templates/ds-ingress-nginx-controller.yml.j2
index 7f419350b..c7657b621 100644
--- a/roles/kubernetes-apps/ingress_controller/ingress_nginx/templates/ds-ingress-nginx-controller.yml.j2
+++ b/roles/kubernetes-apps/ingress_controller/ingress_nginx/templates/ds-ingress-nginx-controller.yml.j2
@@ -23,6 +23,26 @@ spec:
     spec:
       serviceAccountName: ingress-nginx
       terminationGracePeriodSeconds: {{ ingress_nginx_termination_grace_period_seconds }}
+{% if ingress_nginx_opentelemetry_enabled %}
+      initContainers:
+      - name: opentelemetry
+        command:
+        - /init_module
+        image: {{ ingress_nginx_opentelemetry_image_repo }}:{{ ingress_nginx_opentelemetry_image_tag }}
+        securityContext:
+          runAsNonRoot: true
+          runAsUser: 65532
+          allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
+          seccompProfile:
+            type: RuntimeDefault
+          capabilities:
+            drop:
+              - ALL
+          readOnlyRootFilesystem: true
+        volumeMounts:
+        - mountPath: /modules_mount
+          name: modules
+{% endif %}
 {% if ingress_nginx_host_network %}
       hostNetwork: true
       dnsPolicy: ClusterFirstWithHostNet
@@ -127,15 +147,27 @@ spec:
             timeoutSeconds: 5
             successThreshold: 1
             failureThreshold: 3
-{% if ingress_nginx_webhook_enabled %}
+{% if ingress_nginx_webhook_enabled or ingress_nginx_opentelemetry_enabled %}
           volumeMounts:
+{% if ingress_nginx_webhook_enabled %}
             - mountPath: /usr/local/certificates/
               name: webhook-cert
               readOnly: true
 {% endif %}
-{% if ingress_nginx_webhook_enabled %}
+{% if ingress_nginx_opentelemetry_enabled %}
+            - name: modules
+              mountPath: /modules_mount
+{% endif %}
+{% endif %}
+{% if ingress_nginx_webhook_enabled or ingress_nginx_opentelemetry_enabled %}
       volumes:
+{% if ingress_nginx_webhook_enabled %}
         - name: webhook-cert
           secret:
             secretName: ingress-nginx-admission
 {% endif %}
+{% if ingress_nginx_opentelemetry_enabled %}
+        - name: modules
+          emptyDir: {}
+{% endif %}
+{% endif %}
diff --git a/roles/kubespray-defaults/defaults/main/download.yml b/roles/kubespray-defaults/defaults/main/download.yml
index 0e32e843e..eb598c62f 100644
--- a/roles/kubespray-defaults/defaults/main/download.yml
+++ b/roles/kubespray-defaults/defaults/main/download.yml
@@ -331,7 +331,9 @@ local_path_provisioner_image_repo: "{{ docker_image_repo }}/rancher/local-path-p
 local_path_provisioner_image_tag: "{{ local_path_provisioner_version }}"
 ingress_nginx_version: "v1.9.6"
 ingress_nginx_controller_image_repo: "{{ kube_image_repo }}/ingress-nginx/controller"
+ingress_nginx_opentelemetry_image_repo: "{{ kube_image_repo }}/ingress-nginx/opentelemetry"
 ingress_nginx_controller_image_tag: "{{ ingress_nginx_version }}"
+ingress_nginx_opentelemetry_image_tag: "v20230721-3e2062ee5"
 ingress_nginx_kube_webhook_certgen_image_repo: "{{ kube_image_repo }}/ingress-nginx/kube-webhook-certgen"
 ingress_nginx_kube_webhook_certgen_image_tag: "v20231011-8b53cabe0"
 alb_ingress_image_repo: "{{ docker_image_repo }}/amazon/aws-alb-ingress-controller"