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+### To be discussed
+scope: &scope batman
+restapi:
+  listen: 127.0.0.1:8008
+  connect_address: 127.0.0.1:8008
+#  auth: 'username:password'
+#  certfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem
+#  keyfile: /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key
+bootstrap:
+  ttl: &ttl 30
+  loop_wait: &loop_wait 10
+  initdb:  ## We allow the following options to be passed on to initdb
+  # - auth: authmethod
+  # - auth-host: authmethod
+  # - auth-local: authmethod
+  - encoding: UTF8
+  # - data-checksums  # When pg_rewind is needed on 9.3, this needs to be enabled
+  # - locale: locale
+  # - lc-collate: locale
+  # - lc-ctype: locale
+  # - lc-messages: locale
+  # - lc-monetary: locale
+  # - lc-numeric: locale
+  # - lc-time: locale
+  # - text-search-config: CFG
+  # - xlogdir: directory
+  # - debug
+  # - noclean
+  pg_hba:
+  - host replication replicator 127.0.0.1/32 md5
+  - host all all 0.0.0.0/0 md5
+  # - hostssl all all 0.0.0.0/0 md5
+  replication:
+    username: replicator
+    password: rep-pass
+  superuser:
+    username: postgres
+    password: zalando
+  admin:
+    username: admin
+    password: admin
+  postgresql:
+    archive_mode: "on"
+    wal_level: hot_standby
+    max_wal_senders: 10
+    wal_keep_segments: 8
+    archive_timeout: 1800s
+    max_replication_slots: 10
+    hot_standby: "on"
+    wal_log_hints: "on"
+  create_replica_method:
+    - basebackup
+#   - wal_e
+# commented-out example for wal-e provisioning
+  #wal_e:
+    #command: /patroni/scripts/wale_restore.py
+    #env_dir: /etc/wal-e.d/env
+    #threshold_megabytes: 10240
+    #threshold_backup_size_percentage: 30
+    #retries: 2
+    #use_iam: 1
+  #recovery_conf:
+    #restore_command: envdir /etc/wal-e.d/env wal-e wal-fetch "%f" "%p" -p 1
+  recovery_conf:
+    restore_command: cp ../wal_archive/%f %p
+etcd:
+  scope: *scope
+  ttl: *ttl
+  host: 127.0.0.1:4001
+  #discovery_srv: my-etcd.domain
+#consul:
+#  scope: *scope
+#  ttl: *ttl
+#  host: 127.0.0.1:8500
+#zookeeper:
+#  scope: *scope
+#  session_timeout: *ttl
+#  reconnect_timeout: *loop_wait
+#  hosts:
+#    - 127.0.0.1:2181
+#    - 127.0.0.2:2181
+#  exhibitor:
+#    poll_interval: 300
+#    port: 8181
+#    hosts:
+#      - host1
+#      - host2
+#      - host3
+postgresql:
+  name: postgresql0
+  scope: *scope
+  listen: 127.0.0.1:5432
+  connect_address: 127.0.0.1:5432
+  data_dir: data/postgresql0
+  use_slots: True
+  pgpass: /tmp/pgpass0
+  pg_rewind:
+    username: postgres
+    password: zalando
+  create_replica_method:
+    - basebackup
+#   - wal_e
+# commented-out example for wal-e provisioning
+  #wal_e:
+    #command: /patroni/scripts/wale_restore.py
+    #env_dir: /etc/wal-e.d/env
+    #threshold_megabytes: 10240
+    #threshold_backup_size_percentage: 30
+    #retries: 2
+    #use_iam: 1
+  #recovery_conf:
+    #restore_command: envdir /etc/wal-e.d/env wal-e wal-fetch "%f" "%p" -p 1
+  recovery_conf:
+    restore_command: cp ../wal_archive/%f %p
+  parameters:
+    archive_command: mkdir -p ../wal_archive && test ! -f ../wal_archive/%f && cp %p ../wal_archive/%f
+    unix_socket_directories: '.'
+tags:
+    nofailover: False
+    noloadbalance: False
+    clonefrom: False