diff --git a/ansible/roles/gitlab/defaults/main.json b/ansible/roles/gitlab/defaults/main.json
index 76a58b0..9a3d73f 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/gitlab/defaults/main.json
+++ b/ansible/roles/gitlab/defaults/main.json
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 {
 	"var_gitlab_domain": "gitlab.example.org",
+	"var_gitlab_database_kind": "internal",
+	"var_gitlab_database_data_postgresql_host": "localhost",
+	"var_gitlab_database_data_postgresql_port": 5432,
+	"var_gitlab_database_data_postgresql_username": "gitlab_user",
+	"var_gitlab_database_data_postgresql_password": "REPLACE_ME",
+	"var_gitlab_database_data_postgresql_schema": "gitlab",
 	"var_gitlab_authentication_kind": "internal",
 	"var_gitlab_authentication_data_authelia_url_base": "https://authelia.example.org",
 	"var_gitlab_authentication_data_authelia_client_id": "gitlab",
diff --git a/ansible/roles/gitlab/templates/gitlab.rb.j2 b/ansible/roles/gitlab/templates/gitlab.rb.j2
index 3df9ca0..4085433 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/gitlab/templates/gitlab.rb.j2
+++ b/ansible/roles/gitlab/templates/gitlab.rb.j2
@@ -1338,9 +1338,22 @@ gitlab_rails['omniauth_providers'] = [
 ###! By default, reconfigure reloads postgresql if it is running. If you
 ###! change any of these settings, be sure to run `gitlab-ctl restart postgresql`
 ###! after reconfigure in order for the changes to take effect.
-# postgresql['enable'] = true
+
+{% if var_gitlab_database_kind == 'internal' %}
+postgresql['enable'] = true
 # postgresql['listen_address'] = nil
 # postgresql['port'] = 5432
+{% endif %}
+{% if var_gitlab_database_kind == 'postgresql' %}
+postgresql['enable'] = false
+
+gitlab_rails['db_adapter'] = 'postgresql'
+gitlab_rails['db_encoding'] = 'utf8'
+gitlab_rails['db_host'] = '{{var_gitlab_database_data_postgresql_host}}'
+gitlab_rails['db_port'] = {{var_gitlab_database_data_postgresql_port | string}}
+gitlab_rails['db_username'] = '{{var_gitlab_database_data_postgresql_username}}'
+gitlab_rails['db_password'] = '{{var_gitlab_database_data_postgresql_password}}'
+{% endif %}
 
 ## Only used when Patroni is enabled. This is the port that PostgreSQL responds to other
 ## cluster members. This port is used by Patroni to advertize the PostgreSQL connection
diff --git a/ansible/roles/gitlab/vardef.json b/ansible/roles/gitlab/vardef.json
index 6124299..c9b5f37 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/gitlab/vardef.json
+++ b/ansible/roles/gitlab/vardef.json
@@ -3,6 +3,14 @@
 		"type": "string",
 		"mandatory": false
 	},
+	"database_kind": {
+		"type": "string",
+		"mandatory": false,
+		"options": [
+			"internal",
+			"postgresql"
+		]
+	},
 	"authentication_kind": {
 		"type": "string",
 		"mandatory": false,