diff --git a/roles/bodhi2/base/templates/bodhi.py b/roles/bodhi2/base/templates/bodhi.py
index 55d001772e..efca855c2a 100644
--- a/roles/bodhi2/base/templates/bodhi.py
+++ b/roles/bodhi2/base/templates/bodhi.py
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@
 # The bodhi-server rpm ships an /etc/fedmsg.d/bodhi.py file by default that has
 # some nice local settings for testing, but which don't make sense for our
 # infrastructure.  So... we overwrite it with this empty file.
+config = {}