diff --git a/README.SUSE b/README.SUSE
index 43f414a..34aa941 100644
--- a/README.SUSE
+++ b/README.SUSE
@@ -35,3 +35,5 @@ Changes for openSUSE / SLE:
   to avoid having to boot with networking enabled even when it isn't
   necessary; the actual implementation to start the network is left to the
   distribution.
+* ignition-kargs-helper:
+  Distribution specific helper script to implement kernel argument support.
diff --git a/ignition-kargs-helper b/ignition-kargs-helper
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b266eb0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ignition-kargs-helper
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# Based on Ignition's examples/ignition-kargs-helper
+
+set -euxo pipefail
+
+grubcfg="/sysroot/etc/default/grub"
+
+# Mount root file system. Note that we mount /boot but we don't unmount it
+# because we are run in a systemd unit with MountFlags=slave so it is unmounted
+# for us.
+. /dracut-state.sh
+mount "${root#block:}" "${NEWROOT}"
+# Also mount x-initrd.mount flagged mounts to get the current /etc state
+awk '$4 ~ /x-initrd.mount/ { system("findmnt /sysroot" $2 " >/dev/null || mount -t " $3 " -o " $4 " " $1 " /sysroot" $2) }' /sysroot/etc/fstab
+
+orig_kernelopts="$(grep GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT "${grubcfg}")"
+orig_kernelopts="${orig_kernelopts#*=}"
+# trim the leading and trailing quote
+orig_kernelopts="${orig_kernelopts:1:-1}"
+
+# add leading and trailing whitespace to allow for easy sed replacements
+kernelopts=" $orig_kernelopts "
+
+while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]
+do
+    key="$1"
+
+    case $key in
+    --should-exist)
+        arg="$2"
+        # don't repeat the arg
+        if [[ ! "${kernelopts[*]}" =~ " ${arg} " ]]; then
+            kernelopts="$kernelopts$arg "
+        fi
+        shift 2
+        ;;
+    --should-not-exist)
+        kernelopts="$(echo "$kernelopts" | sed "s| $2 | |g")"
+        shift 2
+        ;;
+    *)
+        echo "Unknown option"
+        exit 1
+        ;;
+    esac
+done
+
+# trim the leading and trailing whitespace
+kernelopts="$(echo "$kernelopts" | sed -e 's,^[[:space:]]*,,' -e 's,[[:space:]]*$,,')"
+
+# only apply the changes & reboot if changes have been made
+if [[ "$kernelopts" != "$orig_kernelopts" ]]; then
+    combustiondir="/run/combustion/mount/combustion"
+    mkdir -p "${combustiondir}"
+    # escape escapes to survive the multiple shell invocations
+    kernelopts="${kernelopts//\\/\\\\\\\\}"
+    kernelopts="${kernelopts//$/\\\$}"
+    cat << EOF > "${combustiondir}/script"
+sed -i "s|^\(GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=\).*|\1\"$kernelopts\"|" /etc/default/grub
+/usr/sbin/grub2-mkconfig > /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
+EOF
+    SYSTEMD_OFFLINE=1 combustion
+
+    # Reset health-checker to prevent an unintended rollback
+    echo "Clearing GRUB flag"
+    chroot /sysroot grub2-editenv - set health_checker_flag=0 || true
+
+    reboot
+fi
+
diff --git a/ignition.changes b/ignition.changes
index 20c34d2..1febc99 100644
--- a/ignition.changes
+++ b/ignition.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Jul  7 16:05:49 UTC 2021 - Ignaz Forster <iforster@suse.com>
+
+- Implement missing ignition-kargs-helper script for kernel
+  argument support
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon May 31 14:57:06 UTC 2021 - rpm@fthiessen.de
 
diff --git a/ignition.spec b/ignition.spec
index b11a9ce..3dd2161 100644
--- a/ignition.spec
+++ b/ignition.spec
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ Source7:        README.SUSE
 Source8:        ignition-setup-user-suse.sh
 Source9:        ignition-enable-network.service
 Source10:       ignition-enable-network.sh
+Source11:       ignition-kargs-helper
 Source20:       ignition-userconfig-timeout.conf
 Source21:       ignition-userconfig-timeout-arm.conf
 Patch2:         0002-allow-multiple-mounts-of-same-device.patch
@@ -85,7 +86,7 @@ which creates firstboot_happened after the first boot.
 %patch2 -p1
 
 mkdir dracut/30ignition-microos grub systemd_suse
-chmod +x %{SOURCE3} %{SOURCE4} %{SOURCE8}
+chmod +x %{SOURCE3} %{SOURCE4} %{SOURCE8} %{SOURCE11}
 cp %{SOURCE1} %{SOURCE3} %{SOURCE4} %{SOURCE8} %{SOURCE9} %{SOURCE10} dracut/30ignition-microos/
 %ifarch aarch64 %{arm}
 cp %{SOURCE21} dracut/30ignition-microos/ignition-userconfig-timeout.conf
@@ -95,6 +96,7 @@ cp %{SOURCE20} dracut/30ignition-microos/ignition-userconfig-timeout.conf
 cp %{SOURCE5} grub/
 cp %{SOURCE6} systemd_suse/
 cp %{SOURCE7} .
+cp %{SOURCE11} dracut/30ignition/ignition-kargs-helper.sh
 
 %build
 sed -i -e 's|go build -ldflags|go build -buildmode=pie -ldflags|g' build