diff --git a/cmd/coreos-assembler.go b/cmd/coreos-assembler.go
index 42a08b68ed2d17bed6af640a110603d1b4c7a50a..7579ad8773d85feb2549950af17ab7b5a38e94b1 100644
--- a/cmd/coreos-assembler.go
+++ b/cmd/coreos-assembler.go
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ import (
 var buildCommands = []string{"init", "fetch", "build", "run", "prune", "clean", "list"}
 var advancedBuildCommands = []string{"buildfetch", "buildupload", "oc-adm-release", "push-container", "upload-oscontainer"}
 var buildextendCommands = []string{"aliyun", "aws", "azure", "digitalocean", "exoscale", "gcp", "ibmcloud", "kubevirt", "live", "metal", "metal4k", "nutanix", "openstack", "qemu", "secex", "virtualbox", "vmware", "vultr"}
-var utilityCommands = []string{"aws-replicate", "build-extensions-container", "compress", "generate-hashlist", "koji-upload", "kola", "remote-build-container", "remote-prune", "remote-session", "sign", "tag"}
+var utilityCommands = []string{"aws-replicate", "build-extensions-container", "compress", "generate-hashlist", "koji-upload", "kola", "remote-build-container", "remote-prune", "remote-session", "sign", "tag", "update-variant"}
 var otherCommands = []string{"shell", "meta"}
 
 func init() {
@@ -84,6 +84,8 @@ func run(argv []string) error {
 	switch cmd {
 	case "clean":
 		return runClean(argv)
+	case "update-variant":
+		return runUpdateVariant(argv)
 	case "remote-session":
 		return runRemoteSession(argv)
 	case "build-extensions-container":
diff --git a/cmd/update-variant.go b/cmd/update-variant.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9ec4affb75e87de03423779695ca73e3fa77f7eb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cmd/update-variant.go
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+// See usage below
+package main
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+)
+
+func runUpdateVariant(argv []string) error {
+	const updateVariantUsage = `Usage: coreos-assembler update-variant --help <variant> <version>
+
+Update symlinks for manifests in the config repo to use the specified version
+for the given variant.
+
+Use the "default" variant to update the default manifests with a variant suffix.
+
+Example to update the rhel-coreos-9 variant to RHEL 9.2:
+$ coreos-assembler update-variant rhel-coreos-9 rhel-9.2
+
+Example to set SCOS as the default manifest:
+$ coreos-assembler update-variant default scos
+`
+	for _, arg := range argv {
+		switch arg {
+		case "-h":
+		case "--help":
+			fmt.Print(updateVariantUsage)
+			return nil
+		}
+	}
+
+	if len(argv) != 2 {
+		fmt.Print(updateVariantUsage)
+		return nil
+	}
+	variant := argv[0]
+	version := argv[1]
+
+	var suffix string
+	if variant == "default" {
+		suffix = ""
+	} else {
+		suffix = fmt.Sprintf("-%s", variant)
+	}
+
+	manifests := [3]string{"image", "extensions", "manifest"}
+	for _, m := range manifests {
+		target := fmt.Sprintf("%s-%s.yaml", m, version)
+		linkname := fmt.Sprintf("%s%s.yaml", m, suffix)
+		_, err := os.Stat(fmt.Sprintf("src/config/%s", target))
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		err = os.Remove(fmt.Sprintf("src/config/%s", linkname))
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		err = os.Symlink(target, fmt.Sprintf("src/config/%s", linkname))
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+	}
+	return nil
+}