diff --git a/defaults/main.yml b/defaults/main.yml
index 555384c..e9e1ca5 100644
--- a/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/defaults/main.yml
@@ -1,2 +1,29 @@
 ---
-# defaults file for os_congress
+# Copyright 2017, taseer94@gmail.com
+# All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+congress_git_repo: https://git.openstack.org/openstack/congress
+congress_git_install_branch: master
+congress_requirements_git_repo: https://git.openstack.org/openstack/requirements
+congress_requirements_git_install_branch: master
+congress_developer_mode: false
+
+congress_venv_tag: untagged
+congress_bin: "/openstack/venvs/congress-{{ congress_venv_tag }}/bin"
+
+congress_venv_download_url: http://127.0.0.1/venvs/untagged/ubuntu/congress.tgz
+
+congress_requires_pip_packages:
+  - virtualenv
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diff --git a/tasks/congress_install.yml b/tasks/congress_install.yml
index a1bd707..28fe11b 100644
--- a/tasks/congress_install.yml
+++ b/tasks/congress_install.yml
@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@
 - debug:
     msg: "This script will install Congress"
 
-- name: clone congress repository
+- name: clone requirements repository
   git:
-    repo: "https://github.com/openstack/congress"
+    repo: "{{ congress_requirements_git_repo }}"
     dest: "/opt/requirements"
     clone: yes
     update: yes
@@ -31,9 +31,27 @@
 
 - name: install pip packages
   pip:
-    name: PuLP
+    name: "{{ congress_requires_pip_packages }}"
     state: present
     virtualenv: "/openstack/venvs/congress/"
 
+- name: get venv checksum
+  stat:
+    path: "/var/cache/{{ congress_venv_download_url | basename }}"
+    get_md5: False
+  register: local_venv_stat
+
+- name: get remote venv checksum
+  uri:
+    url: "{{ congress_venv_download_url | replace('tgz', 'checksum')}}"
+    return_content: True
+
+- name: attempt venv download
+  get_url:
+    url: "{{ congress_venv_download_url }}"
+    dest: "/var/cache/{{ congress_venv_download_url | basename }}"
+  ignore_errors: true
+  register: tacker_get_venv
+
 - name: generating the configuration
   shell: tox -egenconfig
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