diff --git a/cookbooks/postgresql/recipes/default.rb b/cookbooks/postgresql/recipes/default.rb
index e93169e..597cd10 100644
--- a/cookbooks/postgresql/recipes/default.rb
+++ b/cookbooks/postgresql/recipes/default.rb
@@ -1,9 +1,22 @@
 package 'postgresql-server'
 
-execute 'postgresql-setup initdb || true' do
-  notifies :start, 'service[postgresql]'
+execute 'postgresql-setup initdb || true'
+
+template '/var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf' do
+  user 'postgres'
+  group 'postgres'
+  mode 0600
+  notifies :restart, 'service[postgresql]'
+end
+
+template '/var/lib/pgsql/data/postgresql.conf' do
+  user 'postgres'
+  group 'postgres'
+  mode 0600
+  notifies :restart, 'service[postgresql]'
 end
 
 service 'postgresql' do
   action :start
+  supports :restart => true
 end
diff --git a/cookbooks/postgresql/templates/centos/pg_hba.conf.erb b/cookbooks/postgresql/templates/centos/pg_hba.conf.erb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d514183
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cookbooks/postgresql/templates/centos/pg_hba.conf.erb
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# TYPE  DATABASE        USER            ADDRESS                 METHOD
+# "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
+local   all             all                                     peer
+# IPv4 local connections:
+host    all             all             127.0.0.1/32            ident
+# IPv6 local connections:
+host    all             all             ::1/128                 ident
+
+# TYPE  DATABASE  USER        ADDRESS                                 METHOD
+host    colab     colab       <%= node['peers']['integration'] %>/32  trust
diff --git a/cookbooks/postgresql/templates/centos/postgresql.conf.erb b/cookbooks/postgresql/templates/centos/postgresql.conf.erb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dc4d96a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cookbooks/postgresql/templates/centos/postgresql.conf.erb
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+listen_addresses = 'localhost,<%= node['peers']['database'] %>'
+
+# TODO optimize these settings
+
+max_connections = 100                             # (change requires restart)
+shared_buffers = 32MB                             # min 128kB
+logging_collector = on                            # Enable capturing of stderr and csvlog
+log_filename = 'postgresql-%a.log'                # log file name pattern,
+log_truncate_on_rotation = on                     # If on, an existing log file with the
+log_rotation_age = 1d                             # Automatic rotation of logfiles will
+log_rotation_size = 0                             # Automatic rotation of logfiles will
+log_timezone = 'UTC'
+datestyle = 'iso, mdy'
+timezone = 'UTC'
+lc_messages = 'en_US.UTF-8'                       # locale for system error message
+lc_monetary = 'en_US.UTF-8'                       # locale for monetary formatting
+lc_numeric = 'en_US.UTF-8'                        # locale for number formatting
+lc_time = 'en_US.UTF-8'                           # locale for time formatting
+default_text_search_config = 'pg_catalog.english'
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