diff --git a/cookbooks/colab/templates/00-database.py.erb b/cookbooks/colab/templates/00-database.py.erb
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+DATABASES = {
+    'default': {
+        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2',
+        'HOST': "<%= node['peers']['database'] %>",
+        'NAME': 'colab',
+        'USER': 'colab'
+    }
+}
diff --git a/cookbooks/colab/templates/00-database.yaml.erb b/cookbooks/colab/templates/00-database.yaml.erb
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-DATABASES:
-  default:
-    ENGINE: django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2
-    NAME: colab
-    USER: colab
-    HOST: <%= node['peers']['database'] %>
diff --git a/cookbooks/colab/templates/02-logging.py.erb b/cookbooks/colab/templates/02-logging.py.erb
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+LOGGING = {
+    'loggers': {
+        'revproxy': {
+            'handlers': ['file'],
+            'level': 'ERROR'},
+        'django': {
+              'handlers': ['file'],
+              'level': 'DEBUG'},
+    },
+    'version': 1, 'formatters': {
+        'verbose': {
+            'format': '%(asctime)s (%(name)s) %(levelname)s: %(message)s'
+        }
+    },
+    'disable_existing_loggers': True, 'handlers': {
+        'file': {
+            'level': 'DEBUG',
+            'interval': 24,
+            'backupCount': 7,
+            'encoding': 'UTF-8',
+            'formatter': 'verbose',
+            'class': 'logging.handlers.TimedRotatingFileHandler',
+            'filename': '/var/log/colab/colab.log'
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/cookbooks/colab/templates/02-logging.yaml.erb b/cookbooks/colab/templates/02-logging.yaml.erb
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-LOGGING:
-  version: 1
-  disable_existing_loggers: True
-
-  formatters:
-    verbose:
-      format: '%(asctime)s (%(name)s) %(levelname)s: %(message)s'
-
-    simple:
-      format: '[colab-spb] (%(name)s) %(levelname)s: %(message)s'
-
-  handlers:
-    syslog:
-      level: WARNING
-      class: logging.handlers.SysLogHandler
-      formatter: simple
-      address: /dev/log
-
-    file:
-      level: DEBUG
-      class: logging.handlers.TimedRotatingFileHandler
-      filename: /var/log/colab/colab.log
-      interval: 24  # 24 hours
-      backupCount: 7  # keep last 7 backups
-      encoding: UTF-8
-      formatter: verbose
-
-  loggers:
-    django:
-      handlers:
-        - file
-        - syslog
-      level: DEBUG
-
-    revproxy:
-      handlers:
-        - file
-        - syslog
-      level: ERROR
diff --git a/cookbooks/colab/templates/03-sentry.py.erb b/cookbooks/colab/templates/03-sentry.py.erb
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@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+RAVEN_DSN = "<%= node['config']['raven_dsn'] %>"
diff --git a/cookbooks/colab/templates/03-sentry.yaml.erb b/cookbooks/colab/templates/03-sentry.yaml.erb
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--- a/cookbooks/colab/templates/03-sentry.yaml.erb
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@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-
-RAVEN_DSN: <%= node['config']['raven_dsn'] %>
diff --git a/cookbooks/colab/templates/settings.yaml.erb b/cookbooks/colab/templates/settings.yaml.erb
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--- a/cookbooks/colab/templates/settings.yaml.erb
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@@ -1,47 +0,0 @@
-
-## Set to false in production
-DEBUG: false
-TEMPLATE_DEBUG: false
-
-## System admins
-ADMINS: &admin
-<%- node['config']['admins'].each do |admin| %>
-  -
-  <%- admin.each do |item| %>
-    - <%= item %>
-  <%- end %>
-<% end %>
-
-MANAGERS: *admin
-
-# general Django settings
-DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL: '<%= node['config']['colab_from_address'] %>'
-
-# colab-specific
-COLAB_FROM_ADDRESS: '<%= node['config']['colab_from_address'] %>'
-SERVER_EMAIL: '<%= node['config']['server_email'] %>'
-
-EMAIL_HOST: localhost
-EMAIL_PORT: 25
-EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX: <%= node['config']['email_subject_prefix'] %>
-
-SECRET_KEY: <%= File.read('/etc/colab/secret.key').strip %>
-
-SITE_URL: <%= node['config']['site_url'] %>
-BROWSERID_AUDIENCES:
-  - <%= node['config']['site_url'].sub('http:', 'https:') %>
-  - <%= node['config']['site_url'].sub('https:', 'http:') %>
-
-ALLOWED_HOSTS:
-  - <%= node['config']['external_hostname'] %>
-
-## Disable indexing
-ROBOTS_NOINDEX: false
-
-## Disable planet
-FEEDZILLA_ENABLED: false
-
-## Set URL of Colab home
-COLAB_HOME_URL: '/social'
-
-GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_TRACKING_ID: '<%= node['config']['google_analytics_id'] %>'
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