diff --git a/files/gitlab-cookbooks/gitlab/attributes/default.rb b/files/gitlab-cookbooks/gitlab/attributes/default.rb
index 0c7becb..32245b4 100644
--- a/files/gitlab-cookbooks/gitlab/attributes/default.rb
+++ b/files/gitlab-cookbooks/gitlab/attributes/default.rb
@@ -28,6 +28,29 @@ default['gitlab']['user']['shell'] = "/bin/sh"
 # The home directory for the chef services user
 default['gitlab']['user']['home'] = "/var/opt/gitlab"
 
+-####
+-# GitLab core
+-####
+-default['gitlab']['gitlab-core']['enable'] = true
+-default['gitlab']['gitlab-core']['ha'] = false
+-default['gitlab']['gitlab-core']['dir'] = "/var/opt/gitlab/gitlab-core"
+-default['gitlab']['gitlab-core']['log_directory'] = "/var/log/gitlab/gitlab-core"
+-default['gitlab']['gitlab-core']['environment'] = 'chefserver'
+-default['gitlab']['gitlab-core']['listen'] = '127.0.0.1'
+-default['gitlab']['gitlab-core']['vip'] = '127.0.0.1'
+-default['gitlab']['gitlab-core']['port'] = 9462
+-default['gitlab']['gitlab-core']['backlog'] = 1024
+-default['gitlab']['gitlab-core']['tcp_nodelay'] = true
+-default['gitlab']['gitlab-core']['worker_timeout'] = 3600
+-default['gitlab']['gitlab-core']['umask'] = "0022"
+-default['gitlab']['gitlab-core']['worker_processes'] = 2
+-default['gitlab']['gitlab-core']['session_key'] = "_sandbox_session"
+-default['gitlab']['gitlab-core']['cookie_domain'] = "all"
+-default['gitlab']['gitlab-core']['cookie_secret'] = "47b3b8d95dea455baf32155e95d1e64e"
+-default['gitlab']['gitlab-core']['web_ui_client_name'] = "chef-webui"
+-default['gitlab']['gitlab-core']['web_ui_admin_user_name'] = "admin"
+-default['gitlab']['gitlab-core']['web_ui_admin_default_password'] = "p@ssw0rd1"
+-
 default['gitlab']['gitlab-core']['repositories_path'] = "/var/opt/gitlab/repositories"
 default['gitlab']['gitlab-core']['internal_api_url'] = "http://localhost:8080"
 
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