diff --git a/components/images-openstack.yaml b/components/images-openstack.yaml
index 41cadc93a..ea147aa83 100644
--- a/components/images-openstack.yaml
+++ b/components/images-openstack.yaml
@@ -22,12 +22,12 @@ images:
     keystone_fernet_setup: "ghcr.io/rackerlabs/understack/keystone:2025.2"
 
     # ironic
-    ironic_api: "ghcr.io/rackerlabs/understack/ironic:2025.2"
-    ironic_conductor: "ghcr.io/rackerlabs/understack/ironic:2025.2"
-    ironic_pxe: "ghcr.io/rackerlabs/understack/ironic:2025.2"
+    ironic_api: "ghcr.io/rackerlabs/understack/ironic:pr-1691"
+    ironic_conductor: "ghcr.io/rackerlabs/understack/ironic:pr-1691"
+    ironic_pxe: "ghcr.io/rackerlabs/understack/ironic:pr-1691"
     ironic_pxe_init: "ghcr.io/rackerlabs/understack/ironic:2025.2"
     ironic_pxe_http: "docker.io/nginx:1.29.4"
-    ironic_db_sync: "ghcr.io/rackerlabs/understack/ironic:2025.2"
+    ironic_db_sync: "ghcr.io/rackerlabs/understack/ironic:pr-1691"
     # these want curl which apparently is in the openstack-client image
     ironic_manage_cleaning_network: "ghcr.io/rackerlabs/understack/openstack-client:2025.2"
     ironic_retrive_cleaning_network: "ghcr.io/rackerlabs/understack/openstack-client:2025.2"
diff --git a/containers/ironic/Dockerfile b/containers/ironic/Dockerfile
index e2aab70eb..6de5f911b 100644
--- a/containers/ironic/Dockerfile
+++ b/containers/ironic/Dockerfile
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ RUN apt-get update && \
 
 # clone source and patch it
 # renovate: name=openstack/ironic repo=https://github.com/rackerlabs/ironic.git branch=understack/2025.2
-ARG IRONIC_GIT_REF=095c3bcaede90095a639ec154b4c3783f1ea75a8
+ARG IRONIC_GIT_REF=c54301688290e9d086aa6c13acb96b561c45658e
 ADD --keep-git-dir=true https://github.com/rackerlabs/ironic.git#${IRONIC_GIT_REF} /src/ironic
 RUN git -C /src/ironic fetch --unshallow --tags