diff --git a/playbooks/groups/badges-backend.yml b/playbooks/groups/badges-backend.yml
index bf83c94235..cb36a0faef 100644
--- a/playbooks/groups/badges-backend.yml
+++ b/playbooks/groups/badges-backend.yml
@@ -41,7 +41,9 @@
   - include: $tasks/denyhosts.yml
   - include: $tasks/nagios_client.yml
   - include: $tasks/fedmsg_base.yml
-  - include: $tasks/fedmsg_hub.yml
 
   handlers:
   - include: $handlers/restart_services.yml
+
+  roles:
+  - include: $roles/badges-backend
diff --git a/roles/badges-backend/tasks/badge-awarder.yml b/roles/badges-backend/tasks/badge-awarder.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..269d28d87b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/roles/badges-backend/tasks/badge-awarder.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+---
+# Configuration for the fedbadges consumer
+
+- tasks:
+  - include: $tasks/fedmsg_hub
+
+- name: copy database configuration
+  template: src=$item /etc/fedmsg.d/$item
+  with_items:
+  - datanommer-db.py
+  - badges-global.py
+
+  tags:
+  - config
+  notify:
+  - fedmsg-hub
diff --git a/roles/badges-backend/templates/badges-awarder.py b/roles/badges-backend/templates/badges-awarder.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..769577b968
--- /dev/null
+++ b/roles/badges-backend/templates/badges-awarder.py
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+config = {
+    # We need to tell the fedmsg-hub that it should load our consumer on start.
+    "fedmsg.consumers.badges.enabled": True,
+
+    # This tells the consumer where to look for its BadgeRule definitions.  It
+    # may be a relative or an absolute path on the file system.
+    "badges.yaml.directory": "/usr/share/badges/rules",
+
+    # This is a dictionary of tahrir-related configuration
+    "badges_global": {
+
+        # This is a sqlalchemy URI that points to the tahrir DB.
+        "database_uri": "postgresql://${tahrirDBUser}:${tahrirDBPassword}@db-tahrir/tahrir",
+
+        # This is a set of data that tells our consumer what Open Badges Issuer
+        # should be kept as the issuer of all the badges we create.
+        "badge_issuer": dict(
+            issuer_id='Fedora Project',
+            issuer_origin='http://apps.fedoraproject.com/badges/',
+            issuer_name='Fedora Project',
+            issuer_org='http://fedoraproject.org',
+            issuer_contact='badges@fedoraproject.org',
+        ),
+    },
+}
+
diff --git a/roles/badges-backend/templates/datanommmer-db.py b/roles/badges-backend/templates/datanommmer-db.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0cb29b070b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/roles/badges-backend/templates/datanommmer-db.py
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+config = {
+    'datanommer.sqlalchemy.url': 'postgresql://${datanommerDBUser}:${datanommerDBPassword}@db-datanommer/datanommer',
+}