diff --git a/internal/artifacts.go b/internal/artifacts.go
index 55fd802..746c26e 100644
--- a/internal/artifacts.go
+++ b/internal/artifacts.go
@@ -702,6 +702,10 @@ type EnodeAddr struct {
 	Artifact string
 }
 
+func (e *EnodeAddr) PrivKeyHex() string {
+	return hex.EncodeToString(gethcommon.LeftPadBytes(e.PrivKey.D.Bytes(), 32))
+}
+
 func (e *EnodeAddr) ID() enode.ID {
 	return enode.PubkeyToIDV4(&e.PrivKey.PublicKey)
 }
diff --git a/internal/catalog.go b/internal/catalog.go
index 83c97c2..481fd6b 100644
--- a/internal/catalog.go
+++ b/internal/catalog.go
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ func init() {
 	register(&BuilderHubPostgres{})
 	register(&BuilderHubMockProxy{})
 	register(&nullService{})
+	register(&Bootnode{})
 }
 
 func FindComponent(name string) ServiceGen {
diff --git a/internal/components.go b/internal/components.go
index 298e1a3..b14376e 100644
--- a/internal/components.go
+++ b/internal/components.go
@@ -193,6 +193,7 @@ func (o *OpGeth) Watchdog(out io.Writer, instance *instance, ctx context.Context
 type RethEL struct {
 	UseRethForValidation bool
 	UseNativeReth        bool
+	Bootnode             *EnodeAddr
 }
 
 func (r *RethEL) ReleaseArtifact() *release {
@@ -262,6 +263,10 @@ func (r *RethEL) Run(svc *Service, ctx *ExContext) {
 		WithArtifact("/data/jwtsecret", "jwtsecret").
 		WithVolume("data", "/data_reth")
 
+	if r.Bootnode != nil {
+
+	}
+
 	if r.UseNativeReth {
 		// we need to use this otherwise the db cannot be binded
 		svc.UseHostExecution()
@@ -559,3 +564,26 @@ func (n *nullService) Run(service *Service, ctx *ExContext) {
 func (n *nullService) Name() string {
 	return "null"
 }
+
+type Bootnode struct {
+	Enode *EnodeAddr
+}
+
+func (b *Bootnode) Run(service *Service, ctx *ExContext) {
+	// bootnode is not available in modern versions of Geth anymore https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/pull/30813
+	b.Enode = ctx.Output.GetEnodeAddr()
+
+	service.
+		WithImage("ethereum/client-go").
+		WithTag("alltools-release-1.10").
+		WithEntrypoint("bootnode").
+		WithArgs(
+			"--nodekeyhex", b.Enode.PrivKeyHex(),
+			"--addr", `0.0.0.0:{{Port "p2p" 33333}}`,
+			"--verbosity", logLevelToGethVerbosity(ctx.LogLevel),
+		)
+}
+
+func (b *Bootnode) Name() string {
+	return "bootnode"
+}
diff --git a/internal/recipe_l1.go b/internal/recipe_l1.go
index ee267af..f6f02dc 100644
--- a/internal/recipe_l1.go
+++ b/internal/recipe_l1.go
@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ func (l *L1Recipe) Artifacts() *ArtifactsBuilder {
 func (l *L1Recipe) Apply(ctx *ExContext, artifacts *Artifacts) *Manifest {
 	svcManager := NewManifest(ctx, artifacts.Out)
 
+	svcManager.AddService("bootnode", &Bootnode{})
+
 	svcManager.AddService("el", &RethEL{
 		UseRethForValidation: l.useRethForValidation,
 		UseNativeReth:        l.useNativeReth,