diff --git a/roles/fedmsg/gateway/slave/tasks/main.yml b/roles/fedmsg/gateway/slave/tasks/main.yml
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+---
+# Tasks to set up fedmsg-gateway-slave
+
+- name: install needed packages
+  yum: pkg={{ item }} state=installed
+  with_items:
+  - fedmsg-gateway
+  tags:
+  - packages
+
+- name: Drop endpoints.py and gateway.py from fedmsg
+  file: name={{ item }} state=absent
+  with_items:
+  - /etc/fedmsg.d/endpoints.py
+  - /etc/fedmsg.d/gateway.py
+
+- name: install /etc/fedmsg.d/fedmsg-gateway-slave.py
+  template: src={{ item.file }}
+            dest={{ item.dest }}
+            owner=root group=root mode=0644
+  with_items:
+  - { file: fedmsg-gateway-slave.py.j2, dest: /etc/fedmsg.d/fedmsg-gateway-slave.py }
diff --git a/roles/fedmsg/gateway/slave/templates/fedmsg-gateway-slave.py.j2 b/roles/fedmsg/gateway/slave/templates/fedmsg-gateway-slave.py.j2
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+config = {
+    # Tell fedmsg-gateway where its special outgoing port is.  haproxy will
+    # locally connect back to us here
+    'fedmsg.consumers.gateway.port': 9942,
+
+    # Set this number to near, but not quite the fs.file-limit.  Try 160000.
+    'fedmsg.consumers.gateway.high_water_mark': 160000,
+
+    # Here is the addres of the master gateway on busgateway01.  We'll get all
+    # our messages from here and forward them out fedmsg.consumers.gateway.port
+    'endpoints': {
+        'fedmsg-gateway-master': [
+            'tcp://busgateway01:9940',
+        ],
+    }
+
+}