diff --git a/ci-Ensure-network-ready-before-cloud-init-service-runs-.patch b/ci-Ensure-network-ready-before-cloud-init-service-runs-.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cc65e3e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ci-Ensure-network-ready-before-cloud-init-service-runs-.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+From df1c0f391537071c34652ee6df9bff87e5aea230 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@redhat.com>
+Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2022 09:20:47 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] Ensure network ready before cloud-init service runs on RHEL
+ (#1893)
+
+RH-Author: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@redhat.com>
+RH-MergeRequest: 87: Ensure network ready before cloud-init service runs on RHEL (#1893)
+RH-Bugzilla: 2151861
+RH-Acked-by: Mohamed Gamal Morsy <mmorsy@redhat.com>
+RH-Acked-by: Camilla Conte <cconte@redhat.com>
+RH-Commit: [1/1] 5bb5f6f94a205854633fb1606ccc68e838c2030d
+
+Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2151861
+
+commit 6e725f36647407d201af0603d7db11fc96a93d4d
+Author: James Falcon <james.falcon@canonical.com>
+Date:   Tue Dec 13 10:55:23 2022 -0600
+
+    Ensure network ready before cloud-init service runs on RHEL (#1893)
+
+    LP: #1998655
+
+Signed-off-by: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@redhat.com>
+---
+ systemd/cloud-init.service.tmpl | 1 +
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
+
+diff --git a/systemd/cloud-init.service.tmpl b/systemd/cloud-init.service.tmpl
+index c170aef7..fc984d5c 100644
+--- a/systemd/cloud-init.service.tmpl
++++ b/systemd/cloud-init.service.tmpl
+@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ After=networking.service
+                   "miraclelinux", "openEuler", "rhel", "rocky", "virtuozzo"] %}
+ After=network.service
+ After=NetworkManager.service
++After=NetworkManager-wait-online.service
+ {% endif %}
+ {% if variant in ["suse"] %}
+ After=wicked.service
+-- 
+2.38.1
+
diff --git a/cloud-init.spec b/cloud-init.spec
index 8965567..e3740c8 100644
--- a/cloud-init.spec
+++ b/cloud-init.spec
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 Name:           cloud-init
 Version:        22.1
-Release:        6%{?dist}
+Release:        7%{?dist}
 Summary:        Cloud instance init scripts
 
 Group:          System Environment/Base
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ Patch13: ci-Revert-Add-native-NetworkManager-support-1224.patch
 Patch14: ci-Revert-Use-Network-Manager-and-Netplan-as-default-re.patch
 # For bz#2115576 - cloud-init configures user "centos" or "rhel" instead of "cloud-user" with cloud-init-22.1
 Patch15: ci-cloud.cfg.tmpl-make-sure-centos-settings-are-identic.patch
+# For bz#2151861 - [RHEL-8] Ensure network ready before cloud-init service runs on RHEL
+Patch16: ci-Ensure-network-ready-before-cloud-init-service-runs-.patch
 
 BuildArch:      noarch
 
@@ -232,6 +234,11 @@ fi
 %config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/rsyslog.d/21-cloudinit.conf
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Dec 28 2022 Camilla Conte <cconte@redhat.com> - 22.1-7
+- ci-Ensure-network-ready-before-cloud-init-service-runs-.patch [bz#2151861]
+- Resolves: bz#2151861
+  ([RHEL-8] Ensure network ready before cloud-init service runs on RHEL)
+
 * Mon Oct 17 2022 Jon Maloy <jmaloy@redhat.com> - 22.1-6
 - ci-cloud.cfg.tmpl-make-sure-centos-settings-are-identic.patch [bz#2115576]
 - Resolves: bz#2115576