diff --git a/cookbooks/colab/recipes/default.rb b/cookbooks/colab/recipes/default.rb
index 82417bb..cd39125 100644
--- a/cookbooks/colab/recipes/default.rb
+++ b/cookbooks/colab/recipes/default.rb
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ template '/etc/colab/settings.yaml' do
   owner  'root'
   group  'colab'
   mode   0640
+  notifies :restart, 'service[colab]'
 end
 
 execute 'colab-admin migrate'
--
libgit2 0.21.2