diff --git a/roles/hotness/templates/hotness.py b/roles/hotness/templates/hotness.py
index d1ceb33fb0..f7e9e7cb0f 100644
--- a/roles/hotness/templates/hotness.py
+++ b/roles/hotness/templates/hotness.py
@@ -48,23 +48,20 @@ config = {
     'hotness.koji': {
 {% if env == 'staging' %}
         'server': 'https://koji.stg.fedoraproject.org/kojihub',
-        'weburl': 'http://koji.stg.fedoraproject.org/koji',
+        'weburl': 'https://koji.stg.fedoraproject.org/koji',
         'git_url': 'http://pkgs01.stg.phx2.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/{package}.git',
 {% else %}
         'server': 'https://koji.fedoraproject.org/kojihub',
-        'weburl': 'http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji',
-        'git_url': 'http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/{package}.git',
+        'weburl': 'https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji',
+        'git_url': 'https://src.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/{package}.git',
 {% endif %}
 
-        # This cert is generated by sshing as root to fas01 and running
-        #     $ cd /var/lib/fedora-ca
-        #     $ python certhelper.py normal --outdir=/var/tmp/ \
-        #               --name=hotness --cadir=. --caname=Fedora
-        # Then scp the cert to lockbox01 into the private dir.
-        'cert': '/etc/pki/fedmsg/hotness.pem',
-        'ca_cert': '/etc/pki/fedmsg/fedora-server-ca.cert',
+        'krb_principal': None,
+        'krb_keytab': None,
+        'krb_ccache': None,
+        'krb_sessionopts': {'timeout': 3600, 'krb_rdns': False},
 
-        'userstring': ('Fedora Release Monitoring '
+        'user_email': ('Fedora Release Monitoring ',
                        '<release-monitoring@fedoraproject.org>'),
         'opts': {'scratch': True},
         'priority': 30,
@@ -79,12 +76,24 @@ config = {
 
 {% if env == 'staging' %}
     'hotness.pkgdb_url': 'https://admin.stg.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/api',
+    "hotness.mdapi_url": "https://apps.stg.fedoraproject.org/mdapi",
 {% else %}
     'hotness.pkgdb_url': 'https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/api',
+    "hotness.mdapi_url": "https://apps.fedoraproject.org/mdapi",
 {% endif %}
 
     'hotness.yumconfig': '/etc/hotness-yum.conf',
 
+    # The time in seconds the-new-hotness should wait for a socket to connect
+    # before giving up.
+    'hotness.connect_timeout': 15,
+    # The time in seconds the-new-hotness should wait for a read from a socket
+    # before giving up.
+    'hotness.read_timeout': 15,
+    # The number of times the-new-hotness should retry a network request that
+    # that failed for any reason (e.g. read timeout, DNS error, etc)
+    'hotness.requests_retries': 3,
+
     "hotness.cache": {
         "backend": "dogpile.cache.dbm",
         "expiration_time": 290,