diff --git a/roles/bodhi2/backend/files/bodhi-automated-pushes.py b/roles/bodhi2/backend/files/bodhi-automated-pushes.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..aacc81cfb1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/roles/bodhi2/backend/files/bodhi-automated-pushes.py
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+import requests
+import json
+import subprocess
+import logging
+
+req = requests.get('https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/composes/')
+bodhi_composes = req.json()
+
+if len(bodhi_composes['composes']) == 0:
+    bodhi_push_cmd = ["bodhi-push", "--username", "releng"]
+    push = subprocess.Popen(bodhi_push_cmd, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE, stdin=PIPE)
+    push.stdin.write('y')
diff --git a/roles/bodhi2/backend/tasks/main.yml b/roles/bodhi2/backend/tasks/main.yml
index c1cf4f5f8a..9dda7b25a3 100644
--- a/roles/bodhi2/backend/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/bodhi2/backend/tasks/main.yml
@@ -264,6 +264,14 @@
   - bodhi
   - cron
 
+- name: put bodhi-automated-pushes.py in place
+  copy: src=bodhi-automated-pushes.py dest=/usr/local/bin/bodhi-automated-pushes.py mode=0755
+  when: inventory_hostname.startswith('bodhi-backend01') and env == "production"
+  tags:
+  - config
+  - bodhi
+  - cron
+
 - name: put update-fullfiletimelist in place
   copy: src="{{ files }}/scripts/update-fullfiletimelist" dest=/usr/local/bin/update-fullfiletimelist mode=0755
   when: inventory_hostname.startswith('bodhi-backend01') and env == "production"
@@ -288,6 +296,14 @@
   - bodhi
   - cron
 
+- name: Set the bodhi-automated-pushes cron job
+  template: src=bodhi-automated-pushes.cron.j2 dest=/etc/cron.d/bodhi-automated-pushes
+  when: inventory_hostname.startswith('bodhi-backend01') and env == "production"
+  tags:
+  - config
+  - bodhi
+  - cron
+
 - name: directory sizes update cron job.
   cron: name="directory-sizes-update" minute="30" hour="19" user="ftpsync"
         job="/usr/bin/find /pub/alt/ /pub/archive/ /pub/fedora-secondary/ /pub/fedora/ /pub/epel/ -type d  ! -path '/pub/alt/screenshots/f21/source' | grep -v snapshot | /usr/bin/xargs -n 1 /usr/bin/du --exclude=.snapshot -sh > /tmp/DIRECTORY_SIZES.txt 2> /dev/null; cp /tmp/DIRECTORY_SIZES.txt /pub/"
diff --git a/roles/bodhi2/backend/templates/bodhi-automated-pushes.cron.j2 b/roles/bodhi2/backend/templates/bodhi-automated-pushes.cron.j2
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..fd83ee60ae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/roles/bodhi2/backend/templates/bodhi-automated-pushes.cron.j2
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+{% if RelEngFrozen %}
+{{ '#' }}00 00 * * * apache /usr/local/bin/bodhi-automated-pushes.py
+{% else %}
+00 00 * * * apache /usr/local/bin/bodhi-automated-pushes.py
+{% endif %}
diff --git a/vars/all/RelEngFrozen.yaml b/vars/all/RelEngFrozen.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5836689199
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vars/all/RelEngFrozen.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+RelEngFrozen: False