diff --git a/roles/webapi/defaults/main.yml b/roles/webapi/defaults/main.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b0623cc3f902e86105c2c829349349fd68db6346
--- /dev/null
+++ b/roles/webapi/defaults/main.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+---
+
+cors_support: "false"
diff --git a/roles/webapi/handlers/main.yml b/roles/webapi/handlers/main.yml
index ed58b9345e2f1e5142733de1076e1ba6fc175ba7..257e5eb7d89f40c49a961958c2b9d5090cdb2724 100644
--- a/roles/webapi/handlers/main.yml
+++ b/roles/webapi/handlers/main.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 ---
 
-- name: updated argo-web-api package
+- name: restart argo-web-api service
   service: name=argo-web-api state=restarted
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diff --git a/roles/webapi/tasks/main.yml b/roles/webapi/tasks/main.yml
index a326059cd1d3cc99f4469429b05d78e5983df2f8..217e9bc5c3bc6e49cf1e48168afb9713f93a7815 100644
--- a/roles/webapi/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/webapi/tasks/main.yml
@@ -2,9 +2,15 @@
 
 - name: Install argo-web-api package
   yum: name=argo-web-api state=latest enablerepo={{ enabled_argo_repo }}
-  notify: updated argo-web-api package
+  notify: restart argo-web-api service
   tags: api
 
+- name: Configure argo-web-api
+  template: src=argo-web-api.conf.j2
+            dest=argo-web-api.conf backup-yes
+            owner=root group=root mode=0644
+  notify: restart argo-web-api service
+
 - name: Start web api service
   service: name=argo-web-api state=started
   tags: api
diff --git a/roles/webapi/templates/argo-web-api.conf.j2 b/roles/webapi/templates/argo-web-api.conf.j2
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bf607f60d4255f34b2c6bd62c896950ebdc04ae5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/roles/webapi/templates/argo-web-api.conf.j2
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+[server]
+bindip = ""
+port = 443
+maxprocs = 4
+cache = false
+lrucache = 700000000
+gzip = true
+cert = /etc/pki/tls/certs/localhost.crt
+privkey = /etc/pki/tls/private/localhost.key
+reqsizelimit = 1073741824
+enablecors = {{ cors_support }}
+
+[mongodb]
+host = "127.0.0.1"
+port = 27017
+db = "argo_core"
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