diff --git a/roles/mdapi/tasks/main.yml b/roles/mdapi/tasks/main.yml
index 40e586aab3..2b0fd25341 100644
--- a/roles/mdapi/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/mdapi/tasks/main.yml
@@ -11,12 +11,19 @@
   - mdapi
   - packages
 
+- name: create all the directory for the configuration file
+  action: file state=directory path=/etc/mdapi
+  tags:
+  - mdapi
+  - config
+
 - name: Install the meta-data fetch cron job
   when: inventory_hostname.startswith(('mdapi01'))
   template: src={{ item.file }}
             dest={{ item.location }}/{{ item.file }}
   with_items:
   - { file: 'mdapi.cron', location: /etc/cron.d }
+  - { file: 'mdapi.cfg', location: /etc/mdapi }
   tags:
   - mdapi
   - config
diff --git a/roles/mdapi/templates/mdapi.conf b/roles/mdapi/templates/mdapi.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2443092a84
--- /dev/null
+++ b/roles/mdapi/templates/mdapi.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+{% if env == 'staging' %}
+KOJI_REPO = 'http://koji.stg.fedoraproject.org/repos/'
+PKGDB2_URL = 'https://admin.stg.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/'
+DL_SERVER = 'http://dl.fedoraproject.org'
+{% else %}
+KOJI_REPO = 'https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/repos/'
+PKGDB2_URL = 'https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/'
+DL_SERVER = 'http://dl.fedoraproject.org'
+{% endif %}
+