diff --git a/cookbooks/gitlab/templates/database.yml.erb b/cookbooks/gitlab/templates/database.yml.erb
index 5e3eadf..8ecc846 100644
--- a/cookbooks/gitlab/templates/database.yml.erb
+++ b/cookbooks/gitlab/templates/database.yml.erb
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ production:
   encoding: unicode
   database: gitlab
   host: <%= node['peers']['database'] %>
-  user: gitlab
+  username: gitlab
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libgit2 0.21.2