diff --git a/dib/ironic-python-agent-ramdisk/package-installs.yaml b/dib/ironic-python-agent-ramdisk/package-installs.yaml
index 99e5c6a..e3475b9 100644
--- a/dib/ironic-python-agent-ramdisk/package-installs.yaml
+++ b/dib/ironic-python-agent-ramdisk/package-installs.yaml
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ efibootmgr:
 efivar:
 chrony:
 e2fsprogs:
+nvme-cli:
 
 libffi-dev:
     build-only: true
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/add-nvme-cli-590e42735476a549.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/add-nvme-cli-590e42735476a549.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c6e6f9b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/add-nvme-cli-590e42735476a549.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+---
+features:
+  - |
+    Adds nvme-cli package required for ``ironic-python-agent`` to
+    be able to fetch information from NVMe controllers and perform NVMe-native
+    cleaning operations.