diff --git a/libpod/oci_conmon_linux.go b/libpod/oci_conmon_linux.go
index 268a301fbb..a328f76210 100644
--- a/libpod/oci_conmon_linux.go
+++ b/libpod/oci_conmon_linux.go
@@ -1318,6 +1318,10 @@ func (r *ConmonOCIRuntime) configureConmonEnv(ctr *Container, runtimeDir string)
 			env = append(env, e)
 		}
 	}
+	conf, ok := os.LookupEnv("CONTAINERS_CONF")
+	if ok {
+		env = append(env, fmt.Sprintf("CONTAINERS_CONF=%s", conf))
+	}
 	env = append(env, fmt.Sprintf("XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=%s", runtimeDir))
 	env = append(env, fmt.Sprintf("_CONTAINERS_USERNS_CONFIGURED=%s", os.Getenv("_CONTAINERS_USERNS_CONFIGURED")))
 	env = append(env, fmt.Sprintf("_CONTAINERS_ROOTLESS_UID=%s", os.Getenv("_CONTAINERS_ROOTLESS_UID")))
diff --git a/test/system/800-config.bats b/test/system/800-config.bats
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f5b4e95709
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/system/800-config.bats
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bats   -*- bats -*-
+#
+# Test specific configuration options and overrides
+#
+
+load helpers
+
+@test "podman CONTAINERS_CONF - CONTAINERS_CONF in conmon" {
+    skip_if_remote "can't check conmon environment over remote"
+
+    # Get the normal runtime for this host
+    run_podman info --format '{{ .Host.OCIRuntime.Name }}'
+    runtime="$output"
+    run_podman info --format "{{ .Host.OCIRuntime.Path }}"
+    ocipath="$output"
+
+    # Make an innocuous containers.conf in a non-standard location
+    conf_tmp="$PODMAN_TMPDIR/containers.conf"
+    cat >$conf_tmp <<EOF
+[engine]
+runtime="$runtime"
+[engine.runtimes]
+$runtime = ["$ocipath"]
+EOF
+    CONTAINERS_CONF="$conf_tmp" run_podman run -d $IMAGE sleep infinity
+    cid="$output"
+
+    CONTAINERS_CONF="$conf_tmp" run_podman inspect "$cid" --format "{{ .State.ConmonPid }}"
+    conmon="$output"
+
+    output="$(tr '\0' '\n' < /proc/$conmon/environ | grep '^CONTAINERS_CONF=')"
+    is "$output" "CONTAINERS_CONF=$conf_tmp"
+
+    # Clean up
+    # Oddly, sleep can't be interrupted with SIGTERM, so we need the
+    # "-f -t 0" to force a SIGKILL
+    CONTAINERS_CONF="$conf_tmp" run_podman rm -f -t 0 "$cid"
+}
+
+@test "podman CONTAINERS_CONF - override runtime name" {
+    skip_if_remote "Can't set CONTAINERS_CONF over remote"
+
+    # Get the path of the normal runtime
+    run_podman info --format "{{ .Host.OCIRuntime.Path }}"
+    ocipath="$output"
+
+    export conf_tmp="$PODMAN_TMPDIR/nonstandard_runtime_name.conf"
+    cat > $conf_tmp <<EOF
+[engine]
+runtime = "nonstandard_runtime_name"
+[engine.runtimes]
+nonstandard_runtime_name = ["$ocipath"]
+EOF
+
+    CONTAINERS_CONF="$conf_tmp" run_podman run -d --rm $IMAGE true
+    cid="$output"
+
+    # We need to wait for the container to finish before we can check
+    # if it was cleaned up properly.  But in the common case that the
+    # container completes fast, and the cleanup *did* happen properly
+    # the container is now gone.  So, we need to ignore "no such
+    # container" errors from podman wait.
+    CONTAINERS_CONF="$conf_tmp" run_podman '?' wait "$cid"
+    if [[ $status != 0 ]]; then
+	is "$output" "Error:.*no such container" "unexpected error from podman wait"
+    fi
+
+    # The --rm option means the container should no longer exist.
+    # However https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/12917 meant
+    # that the container cleanup triggered by conmon's --exit-cmd
+    # could fail, leaving the container in place.
+    #
+    # We verify that the container is indeed gone, by checking that a
+    # podman rm *fails* here - and it has the side effect of cleaning
+    # up in the case this test fails.
+    CONTAINERS_CONF="$conf_tmp" run_podman 1 rm "$cid"
+    is "$output" "Error:.*no such container"
+}
+
+# vim: filetype=sh