diff --git a/devstack/lib/ironic b/devstack/lib/ironic
index e01ada2577..efb0801d1b 100644
--- a/devstack/lib/ironic
+++ b/devstack/lib/ironic
@@ -111,6 +111,14 @@ IRONIC_HW_NODE_DISK=${IRONIC_HW_NODE_DISK:-10}
 IRONIC_HW_EPHEMERAL_DISK=${IRONIC_HW_EPHEMERAL_DISK:-0}
 IRONIC_HW_ARCH=${IRONIC_HW_ARCH:-x86_64}
 
+# Deploy Ironic Nodes & configure n-cpu for sharding
+# Currently only supports 0 (old behavior) or 1 (adds all nodes
+# to the same shard). You can still use this with multinode to
+# get multiple shards in one Ironic install.
+# IRONIC_SHARD_1_NAME + IRONIC_SHARDS will also configure n-cpu
+IRONIC_SHARDS=${IRONIC_SHARDS:-0}
+IRONIC_SHARD_1_NAME=${IRONIC_SHARD_1_NAME:-ds_shard_1}
+
 # The file is composed of multiple lines, each line includes fields
 # separated by white space, in the format:
 #
@@ -699,6 +707,10 @@ if [[ "$IRONIC_BOOT_MODE" == "uefi" ]]; then
     fi
 fi
 
+if [[ "$IRONIC_SHARDS" != "0" ]] && [[ "$IRONIC_SHARDS" != "1" ]]; then
+    die $LINENO "Only support 0 or 1 shards at this time."
+fi
+
 # TODO(pas-ha) find a way to (cross-)sign the custom CA bundle used by tls-proxy
 # with default iPXE cert - for reference see http://ipxe.org/crypto
 if is_service_enabled tls-proxy && [[ "$IRONIC_IPXE_USE_SWIFT" == "True" ]]; then
@@ -2643,6 +2655,10 @@ function enroll_nodes {
                 root_device='{"vendor": "0x1af4"}'
         fi
 
+        if [[ $IRONIC_SHARDS == "1" ]]; then
+            openstack --os-cloud devstack-system-admin baremetal node set $node_id --shard $IRONIC_SHARD_1_NAME
+        fi
+
         # In case we using portgroups, we should API version that support them.
         # Othervise API will return 406 ERROR
         # NOTE(vsaienko) interface_info is in the following format here:
diff --git a/zuul.d/ironic-jobs.yaml b/zuul.d/ironic-jobs.yaml
index e922ee2211..4df51d06d4 100644
--- a/zuul.d/ironic-jobs.yaml
+++ b/zuul.d/ironic-jobs.yaml
@@ -284,6 +284,8 @@
         IRONIC_BOOT_MODE: bios
         # Make sure this feature works even with the minumum implementation
         IRONIC_REDFISH_EMULATOR_FEATURE_SET: minimum
+        # Test sharding support
+        IRONIC_SHARDS: 1
       devstack_services:
         # Parent job uses swift, this one does not, thus we can turn it off.
         s-account: False
@@ -742,6 +744,25 @@
           q-ovn-metadata-agent: False
           n-cpu: True
 
+- job:
+    # NOTE(JayF) This job sets up two nova-computes with two different shards
+    # TODO(JayF) Add a post-run validation to ensure the two n-cpus did not
+    #            see each others' nodes
+    name: ironic-tempest-ipa-wholedisk-direct-tinyipa-multinode-shard
+    description: ironic-tempest-ipa-wholedisk-direct-tinyipa-multinode-shard
+    parent: ironic-tempest-ipa-wholedisk-direct-tinyipa-multinode
+    nodeset: openstack-two-node-jammy
+    vars:
+      tempest_test_regex: "BaremetalBasicOps"
+      devstack_localrc:
+        IRONIC_SHARDS: 1
+        IRONIC_SHARD_1_NAME: "main-node"
+    group-vars:
+      subnode:
+        devstack_localrc:
+          IRONIC_SHARDS: 1
+          IRONIC_SHARD_1_NAME: "subnode"
+
 - job:
     name: ironic-tox-unit-with-driver-libs
     parent: openstack-tox
diff --git a/zuul.d/project.yaml b/zuul.d/project.yaml
index 61351b19a1..9969c32ad3 100644
--- a/zuul.d/project.yaml
+++ b/zuul.d/project.yaml
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@
         # understand it in mind for the upcoming release.
         - ironic-tempest-ipa-wholedisk-direct-tinyipa-multinode:
             voting: false
+        - ironic-tempest-ipa-wholedisk-direct-tinyipa-multinode-shard:
+            voting: false
         - ironic-tempest-bios-ipmi-direct-tinyipa
         - ironic-tempest-bfv
         - ironic-tempest-ipa-partition-uefi-pxe-grub2