diff --git a/puppet/modules/colab/manifests/requirements.pp b/puppet/modules/colab/manifests/requirements.pp
index c2cafb6..e992721 100644
--- a/puppet/modules/colab/manifests/requirements.pp
+++ b/puppet/modules/colab/manifests/requirements.pp
@@ -88,4 +88,9 @@ class colab::requirements {
   package { 'openjdk-7-jre':
     ensure => installed,
   }
+
+  package { 'memcached':
+    ensure => installed,
+  }
+
 }
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 28fd8a8..0225b8c 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ pysolr==2.1
 etiquetando==0.1
 html2text
 django-taggit
+python-memcached
 
 gunicorn
 gevent
diff --git a/src/colab/custom_settings.py b/src/colab/custom_settings.py
index fc0e709..85e5098 100644
--- a/src/colab/custom_settings.py
+++ b/src/colab/custom_settings.py
@@ -63,6 +63,13 @@ DATABASES = {
     }
 }
 
+CACHES = {
+    'default': {
+        'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.MemcachedCache',
+        'LOCATION': '127.0.0.1:11211',
+    }
+}
+
 DATABASE_ROUTERS = ['colab.routers.TracRouter',]
 
 INSTALLED_APPS = INSTALLED_APPS + (
--
libgit2 0.21.2