diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2505.section.md b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2505.section.md
index 4533f26214f5..f07ad90dd544 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2505.section.md
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2505.section.md
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@
 
 - [Omnom](https://github.com/asciimoo/omnom), a webpage bookmarking and snapshotting service. Available as [services.omnom](options.html#opt-services.omnom.enable).
 
+- [Zenoh](https://zenoh.io/), a pub/sub/query protocol with low overhead. The Zenoh router daemon is available as [services.zenohd](options.html#opt-services.zenohd.enable)
+
 - [MaryTTS](https://github.com/marytts/marytts), an open-source, multilingual text-to-speech synthesis system written in pure Java. Available as [services.marytts](options.html#opt-services.marytts).
 
 - [networking.modemmanager](options.html#opt-networking.modemmanager) has been split out of [networking.networkmanager](options.html#opt-networking.networkmanager). NetworkManager still enables ModemManager by default, but options exist now to run NetworkManager without ModemManager.
diff --git a/nixos/modules/module-list.nix b/nixos/modules/module-list.nix
index 92e8db5ee8e1..b44240e0d87d 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/module-list.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/module-list.nix
@@ -1315,6 +1315,7 @@
   ./services/networking/yggdrasil.nix
   ./services/networking/zapret.nix
   ./services/networking/zerobin.nix
+  ./services/networking/zenohd.nix
   ./services/networking/zeronet.nix
   ./services/networking/zerotierone.nix
   ./services/networking/zeronsd.nix
diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/networking/zenohd.nix b/nixos/modules/services/networking/zenohd.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..70eceab48792
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/networking/zenohd.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,136 @@
+{
+  lib,
+  config,
+  pkgs,
+  ...
+}:
+
+let
+  inherit (lib)
+    types
+    mkDefault
+    mkOption
+    ;
+
+  json = pkgs.formats.json { };
+
+  cfg = config.services.zenohd;
+
+in
+{
+  options = {
+    services.zenohd = {
+      enable = lib.mkEnableOption "Zenoh daemon.";
+
+      package = mkOption {
+        description = "The zenoh package to use.";
+        type = types.package;
+        default = pkgs.zenoh;
+        defaultText = "pkgs.zenoh";
+      };
+
+      settings = mkOption {
+        description = ''
+          Config options for `zenoh.json5` configuration file.
+
+          See <https://github.com/eclipse-zenoh/zenoh/blob/main/DEFAULT_CONFIG.json5>
+          for more information.
+        '';
+        default = { };
+        type = types.submodule {
+          freeformType = json.type;
+        };
+      };
+
+      plugins = mkOption {
+        description = "Plugin packages to add to zenohd search paths.";
+        type = with types; listOf package;
+        default = [ ];
+        example = lib.literalExpression ''
+          [ pkgs.zenoh-plugin-mqtt ]
+        '';
+      };
+
+      backends = mkOption {
+        description = "Storage backend packages to add to zenohd search paths.";
+        type = with types; listOf package;
+        default = [ ];
+        example = lib.literalExpression ''
+          [ pkgs.zenoh-backend-rocksdb ]
+        '';
+      };
+
+      home = mkOption {
+        description = "Base directory for zenohd related files defined via ZENOH_HOME.";
+        type = types.str;
+        default = "/var/lib/zenoh";
+      };
+
+      env = mkOption {
+        description = ''
+          Set environment variables consumed by zenohd and its plugins.
+        '';
+        type = with types; attrsOf str;
+        default = { };
+      };
+
+      extraOptions = mkOption {
+        description = "Extra command line options for zenohd.";
+        type = with types; listOf str;
+        default = [ ];
+      };
+    };
+  };
+
+  config = lib.mkIf cfg.enable {
+    systemd.services.zenohd =
+      let
+        cfgFile = json.generate "zenohd.json" cfg.settings;
+
+      in
+      {
+        wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
+        wants = [ "network-online.target" ];
+        after = [ "network-online.target" ];
+
+        environment = cfg.env;
+
+        serviceConfig = {
+          Type = "simple";
+          User = "zenohd";
+          Group = "zenohd";
+          ExecStart =
+            "${lib.getExe cfg.package} -c ${cfgFile} " + (lib.concatStringsSep " " cfg.extraOptions);
+        };
+      };
+
+    users = {
+      users.zenohd = {
+        description = "Zenoh daemon user";
+        group = "zenohd";
+        isSystemUser = true;
+      };
+
+      groups.zenohd = { };
+    };
+
+    services.zenohd = {
+      env.ZENOH_HOME = cfg.home;
+
+      settings = {
+        plugins_loading = {
+          enabled = mkDefault true;
+          search_dirs = mkDefault (
+            (map (x: "${lib.getLib x}/lib") cfg.plugins) ++ [ "${lib.getLib cfg.package}/lib" ]
+          ); # needed for internal plugins
+        };
+
+        plugins.storage_manager.backend_search_dirs = mkDefault (
+          map (x: "${lib.getLib x}/lib") cfg.backends
+        );
+      };
+    };
+
+    systemd.tmpfiles.rules = [ "d ${cfg.home} 750 zenohd zenohd -" ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/nixos/tests/all-tests.nix b/nixos/tests/all-tests.nix
index 2952c67d19c2..93fafe376a95 100644
--- a/nixos/tests/all-tests.nix
+++ b/nixos/tests/all-tests.nix
@@ -1186,6 +1186,7 @@ in {
   yggdrasil = handleTest ./yggdrasil.nix {};
   your_spotify = handleTest ./your_spotify.nix {};
   zammad = handleTest ./zammad.nix {};
+  zenohd = handleTest ./zenohd.nix {};
   zeronet-conservancy = handleTest ./zeronet-conservancy.nix {};
   zfs = handleTest ./zfs.nix {};
   zigbee2mqtt = handleTest ./zigbee2mqtt.nix {};
diff --git a/nixos/tests/zenohd.nix b/nixos/tests/zenohd.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7d99460d6ade
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nixos/tests/zenohd.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+import ./make-test-python.nix (
+  { pkgs, lib, ... }:
+
+  {
+    name = "zenohd";
+    meta.maintainers = [ lib.maintainers.markuskowa ];
+
+    nodes = {
+      router =
+        {
+          pkgs,
+          lib,
+          config,
+          ...
+        }:
+        {
+          networking.firewall.allowedTCPPorts = [
+            7447 # zenohd default port
+            config.services.zenohd.settings.plugins.mqtt.port
+            config.services.zenohd.settings.plugins.webserver.http_port
+          ];
+
+          services.zenohd = {
+            enable = true;
+
+            plugins = with pkgs; [
+              zenoh-plugin-mqtt
+              zenoh-plugin-webserver
+            ];
+
+            backends = with pkgs; [
+              zenoh-backend-filesystem
+              zenoh-backend-rocksdb
+            ];
+
+            settings = {
+              plugins = {
+                mqtt = {
+                  port = 1883;
+                  allow = ".*";
+                };
+                webserver.http_port = 8000;
+                storage_manager = {
+                  volumes = {
+                    fs = { };
+                    rocksdb = { };
+                  };
+                  storages = {
+                    mem = {
+                      key_expr = "mem/**";
+                      volume = "memory";
+                    };
+                    fs = {
+                      key_expr = "fs/**";
+                      volume = {
+                        id = "fs";
+                        dir = "zenoh-fs";
+                        strip_prefix = "fs";
+                      };
+                    };
+                    rocksdb = {
+                      key_expr = "rocksdb/**";
+                      volume = {
+                        id = "rocksdb";
+                        dir = "zenoh-rocksdb";
+                        strip_prefix = "rocksdb";
+                        create_db = true;
+                      };
+                    };
+                  };
+                };
+              };
+            };
+          };
+        };
+
+      client = {
+        environment.systemPackages = [
+          pkgs.mosquitto
+        ];
+      };
+    };
+
+    testScript = ''
+      start_all()
+      router.wait_for_unit("zenohd.service")
+      client.wait_for_unit("multi-user.target")
+
+      for be in ["fs", "rocksdb", "mem" ]:
+        client.succeed(f"mosquitto_pub -h router -t {be}/test -m hello")
+        client.succeed(f"curl router:8000/{be}/test | grep hello")
+    '';
+  }
+)