diff --git a/src/config.yaml b/src/config.yaml
index 3f387ee..c2088fe 100644
--- a/src/config.yaml
+++ b/src/config.yaml
@@ -74,3 +74,7 @@ options:
       Space delimited list of DNS servers which should be notified on every
       zone change in addition to the backend servers. List is of the form
       also_notify_ip:also_notify_port
+  enable-admin-api:
+    type: boolean
+    default: false
+    description: Enables experimental admin API for Designate.
diff --git a/src/templates/mitaka/designate.conf b/src/templates/mitaka/designate.conf
index 6e6bf32..b680953 100644
--- a/src/templates/mitaka/designate.conf
+++ b/src/templates/mitaka/designate.conf
@@ -120,11 +120,15 @@ enable_api_v2 = True
 
 # Enable Admin API (experimental)
 #enable_api_admin = False
+enable_api_admin = {{ options.enable_admin_api }}
 
 # Enabled Admin API extensions
 # Can be one or more of : reports, quotas, counts, tenants, zones
 # zone export is in zones extension
 #enabled_extensions_admin =
+{% if options.enable_admin_api -%}
+enabled_extensions_admin = reports, quotas, counts, tenants, zones
+{%- endif %}
 
 # Default per-page limit for the Admin API, a value of None means show all results
 # by default