diff --git a/cmd/openshift-install/main.go b/cmd/openshift-install/main.go
index 778cb14985e..ff158596183 100644
--- a/cmd/openshift-install/main.go
+++ b/cmd/openshift-install/main.go
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ func installerMain() {
 		newWaitForCmd(),
 		newGatherCmd(),
 		newVersionCmd(),
+		newRhcosMetadataCmd(),
 		newGraphCmd(),
 		newCompletionCmd(),
 	} {
diff --git a/cmd/openshift-install/rhcos-metadata.go b/cmd/openshift-install/rhcos-metadata.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..967ff8259b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cmd/openshift-install/rhcos-metadata.go
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"io"
+	"os"
+
+	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
+
+	"github.com/openshift/installer/data"
+)
+
+func newRhcosMetadataCmd() *cobra.Command {
+	return &cobra.Command{
+		Use:   "rhcos-metadata",
+		Short: "Output Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS metaadata",
+		Long:  "",
+		Args:  cobra.ExactArgs(0),
+		RunE:  runRhcosMetadata,
+	}
+}
+
+// runRhcosMetadata simply dumps the embedded RHCOS metadata to
+// stdout. See also https://github.com/openshift/installer/issues/1399
+func runRhcosMetadata(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
+	file, err := data.Assets.Open("rhcos.json")
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	defer file.Close()
+	_, err = io.Copy(os.Stdout, file)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	return nil
+}