diff --git a/charts/cluster-api-cluster-openstack/templates/workload.yaml b/charts/cluster-api-cluster-openstack/templates/workload.yaml
index 165e2f1..78b5e6a 100644
--- a/charts/cluster-api-cluster-openstack/templates/workload.yaml
+++ b/charts/cluster-api-cluster-openstack/templates/workload.yaml
@@ -107,6 +107,16 @@ spec:
         path: {{ $file.path }}
         permissions: "0600"
       {{- end }}
+      - path: /etc/kubernetes/patches/kubeletconfiguration0+strategic.json
+        owner: "root:root"
+        permissions: "0644"
+        content: |
+            {
+              "apiVersion": "kubelet.config.k8s.io/v1beta1",
+              "kind": "KubeletConfiguration",
+              "serializeImagePulls": false,
+              "maxParallelImagePulls": 10,
+            }
       joinConfiguration:
         nodeRegistration:
           name: {{ "'{{ local_hostname }}'" }}
@@ -115,4 +125,6 @@ spec:
             node-labels: {{- include "openstack.nodelabels.workload" $context | nindent 14 }}
           taints:
             {{- include "openstack.taints.workload" $ | nindent 10 }}
+        patches:
+          directory: /etc/kubernetes/patches
 {{- end }}