diff --git a/image-trigger b/image-trigger
index e94637b0d5..7fa71019b9 100755
--- a/image-trigger
+++ b/image-trigger
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ REFRESH = {
     "fedora-38": {},
     "fedora-39": {},
     "fedora-coreos": {},
+    "fedora-eln": {},
+    "fedora-eln-boot": {},
     "fedora-rawhide": {},
     "fedora-rawhide-boot": {},
     "fedora-rawhide-anaconda-payload": {"refresh-days": 30},
diff --git a/images/fedora-eln b/images/fedora-eln
new file mode 120000
index 0000000000..2e5fb74e8a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/images/fedora-eln
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+fedora-eln-3ee26c7c51f51f7fe7560705791335598051faac78cfbc2328685890ce073b59.qcow2
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/images/fedora-eln-boot b/images/fedora-eln-boot
new file mode 120000
index 0000000000..7e28a7512a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/images/fedora-eln-boot
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+fedora-eln-boot-499cdb2e4d565dcc293626eea1ea20ba987460dc629c32b54d68970cb7a99547.iso
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/images/scripts/fedora-eln-boot.bootstrap b/images/scripts/fedora-eln-boot.bootstrap
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..1252bd5fe6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/images/scripts/fedora-eln-boot.bootstrap
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2023 Red Hat Inc.
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+# General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
+# 02110-1301 USA.
+
+set -eux
+
+OUTPUT="$1"
+
+# Read the boot.iso file name from the MD5SUM file
+URL=https://odcs.fedoraproject.org/composes/production/latest-Fedora-ELN/compose/BaseOS/x86_64/iso/
+ISO=$(curl -L -s $URL | grep -o '"Fedora-ELN.*boot.iso"' | tr -d '"')
+[ -n "$ISO" ]
+
+curl -L "$URL$ISO" -o "$OUTPUT"
diff --git a/images/scripts/fedora-eln.bootstrap b/images/scripts/fedora-eln.bootstrap
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..3c181c6fb4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/images/scripts/fedora-eln.bootstrap
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2023 Red Hat Inc.
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+# General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
+# 02110-1301 USA.
+
+set -eux
+
+URL='https://odcs.fedoraproject.org/composes/production/latest-Fedora-ELN/compose/BaseOS/x86_64/images'
+IMAGE=$(curl -L -s "$URL"  | grep -o 'Fedora-ELN-Guest-[^"]*qcow2' | tr -d '"' | tail -n1)
+[ -n "$IMAGE" ]
+
+exec $(dirname $0)/lib/cloudimage.bootstrap "$1" "$URL/$IMAGE"
diff --git a/images/scripts/fedora-eln.setup b/images/scripts/fedora-eln.setup
new file mode 120000
index 0000000000..f78434e0cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/images/scripts/fedora-eln.setup
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+fedora.setup
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/images/scripts/fedora.setup b/images/scripts/fedora.setup
index eca213bb19..211bdfbae4 100755
--- a/images/scripts/fedora.setup
+++ b/images/scripts/fedora.setup
@@ -21,16 +21,7 @@ echo foobar | passwd --stdin root
 # them to not spontaneously change from one test run to the next when
 # the distribution repository is updated.
 #
-COCKPIT_DEPS="\
-criu-libs \
-device-mapper-multipath \
-glibc-langpack-de \
-glibc-langpack-pt \
-glib-networking \
-grubby \
-json-glib \
-kexec-tools \
-libssh \
+COCKPIT_MACHINES_DEPS="
 libvirt-daemon-config-network \
 libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu \
 libvirt-daemon-driver-network \
@@ -40,6 +31,31 @@ libvirt-daemon-driver-interface \
 libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-disk \
 libvirt-client \
 libvirt-dbus \
+qemu-block-curl \
+qemu-audio-spice \
+qemu-char-spice \
+qemu-device-usb-host \
+qemu-device-usb-redirect \
+qemu-kvm-core \
+virt-install \
+"
+COCKPIT_STORAGE_DEPS="
+device-mapper-multipath \
+udisks2 \
+udisks2-btrfs \
+udisks2-lvm2 \
+udisks2-iscsi \
+"
+
+COCKPIT_DEPS="\
+criu-libs \
+glibc-langpack-de \
+glibc-langpack-pt \
+glib-networking \
+grubby \
+json-glib \
+kexec-tools \
+libssh \
 NetworkManager-team \
 openssl \
 PackageKit \
@@ -47,12 +63,6 @@ pcp \
 pcp-libs \
 python3-pip \
 python3-tracer \
-qemu-block-curl \
-qemu-audio-spice \
-qemu-char-spice \
-qemu-device-usb-host \
-qemu-device-usb-redirect \
-qemu-kvm-core \
 realmd \
 selinux-policy-targeted \
 setroubleshoot-server \
@@ -61,11 +71,6 @@ sscg \
 system-logos \
 subscription-manager \
 tuned \
-virt-install \
-udisks2 \
-udisks2-btrfs \
-udisks2-lvm2 \
-udisks2-iscsi \
 "
 
 # We also install the packages necessary to join a FreeIPA domain so
@@ -161,8 +166,14 @@ fi
 # man-db cache update is a CPU/memory hog
 rpm -e --verbose man-db
 
+# fedora-eln image is just used for building/fetching the anaconda-webui RPM dependencies
+# no need to install all dependencies there
+ALL_DEPS="$COCKPIT_DEPS"
+if [ "fedora-eln" != "$IMAGE" ]; then
+    ALL_DEPS="$COCKPIT_MACHINES_DEPS $COCKPIT_STORAGE_DEPS $COCKPIT_DEPS $IPA_CLIENT_PACKAGES $TEST_PACKAGES $ABRT_PACKAGES"
+fi
 dnf $DNF_OPTS -y upgrade
-dnf $DNF_OPTS -y install $TEST_PACKAGES $COCKPIT_DEPS $IPA_CLIENT_PACKAGES $ABRT_PACKAGES
+dnf $DNF_OPTS -y install $ALL_DEPS
 
 mkdir -p /var/lib/package-sets/clevis
 dnf $DNF_OPTS download --destdir=/var/lib/package-sets/clevis $PACKAGE_SET_CLEVIS
@@ -190,22 +201,31 @@ fi
 
 # don't use a bootstrap chroot to save time and space; everything is offline, and we always just do exactly one build
 echo "config_opts['use_bootstrap'] = False" >>/etc/mock/site-defaults.cfg
-su builder -c "/usr/bin/mock --no-bootstrap-chroot --verbose -i $(/var/lib/testvm/build-deps.sh "${ID} ${VERSION_ID}")"
+su builder -c "/usr/bin/mock --no-bootstrap-chroot --verbose -i $(/var/lib/testvm/build-deps.sh "${ID} ${VERSION_ID} ${VARIANT_ID}")"
 
 # we need to ensure that mock's selinux-policy is older than the host:
 # disabling the updates repository will surely get us a very old version
 mkdir /tmp/selinux-policy-rpms
 selinux_pkgs="selinux-policy selinux-policy-devel selinux-policy-targeted"
-dnf download --destdir /tmp/selinux-policy-rpms --repo=fedora $selinux_pkgs
+if [ "${VARIANT_ID}" != "eln" ]; then
+    dnf download --destdir /tmp/selinux-policy-rpms --repo=fedora $selinux_pkgs
+else
+    dnf download --destdir /tmp/selinux-policy-rpms $selinux_pkgs
+fi
 su builder -c "/usr/bin/mock --install /tmp/selinux-policy-rpms/*.rpm"
 # host system gets the versions with fedora-updates enabled
 dnf install -y $selinux_pkgs
 
-# for containers.install and cockpit's container/* tests
-podman build --tag cockpit/base --build-arg VERSION=${VERSION_ID} /var/tmp/cockpit-base
+# eln image fails on running podman with:
+# error running container: did not get container start message from parent: EOF
+# fedora-eln is not used in podman tests, so we can just skip this section
+if [ "$VARIANT_ID" != "eln" ]; then
+    # for containers.install and cockpit's container/* tests
+    podman build --tag cockpit/base --build-arg VERSION=${VERSION_ID} /var/tmp/cockpit-base
 
-# for c-podman tests
-/var/lib/testvm/podman-images.setup
+    # for c-podman tests
+    /var/lib/testvm/podman-images.setup
+fi
 
 ln -sf ../selinux/config /etc/sysconfig/selinux
 printf "SELINUX=enforcing\nSELINUXTYPE=targeted\n" > /etc/selinux/config
diff --git a/images/scripts/lib/build-deps.sh b/images/scripts/lib/build-deps.sh
index cf7551f39e..205193b4a7 100755
--- a/images/scripts/lib/build-deps.sh
+++ b/images/scripts/lib/build-deps.sh
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ set -o pipefail
 GET="curl --silent --show-error --fail"
 COCKPIT_GIT="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cockpit-project/cockpit"
 OS_VER="$1"
+# Remove variant information from OS_VER (e.g. fedora 40 eln -> fedora 40)
+OS_VER_NO_VARIANT="$(echo $OS_VER | cut -d' ' -f 1,2)"
 
 # most images use cockpit.spec from main branch, but there's a RHEL 7 stable branch with a completely different layout
 case "$OS_VER" in
@@ -23,7 +25,7 @@ case "$OS_VER" in
         ;;
 esac
 
-echo "$spec" | rpmspec -D "$OS_VER" -D 'version 0' -D 'enable_old_bridge 0' --buildrequires --query /dev/stdin | sed 's/.*/"&"/' | tr '\n' ' '
+echo "$spec" | rpmspec -D "$OS_VER_NO_VARIANT" -D 'version 0' -D 'enable_old_bridge 0' --buildrequires --query /dev/stdin | sed 's/.*/"&"/' | tr '\n' ' '
 
 # some extra build dependencies:
 # - libappstream-glib for validating appstream metadata in starter-kit and derivatives
@@ -47,6 +49,7 @@ esac
 # pull nodejs-devel on Fedora for compliance with the guidelines on using nodejs modules:
 # https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Node.js/#_buildrequires
 case "$OS_VER" in
+    fedora*eln) ;;
     fedora*) EXTRA_DEPS="$EXTRA_DEPS nodejs-devel" ;;
     *) ;;
 esac
diff --git a/lib/testmap.py b/lib/testmap.py
index 6a34505af9..a16cae20ca 100644
--- a/lib/testmap.py
+++ b/lib/testmap.py
@@ -217,6 +217,9 @@ def contexts(image, *scenarios: Iterable[str], repo: Optional[str] = None):
         'main': [
             'fedora-rawhide-boot',
         ],
+        '_manual': [
+            'fedora-eln-boot',
+        ],
     },
 }