diff --git a/deployment/puppet/galera/manifests/init.pp b/deployment/puppet/galera/manifests/init.pp
index 736bed53c1..7f25ab34c9 100644
--- a/deployment/puppet/galera/manifests/init.pp
+++ b/deployment/puppet/galera/manifests/init.pp
@@ -63,6 +63,20 @@
 #  system at install time. NOTE: use_percona must be set to true for this to
 #  be used.
 #
+# [*binary_logs_enabled*]
+#  Set this value to true for enabling MySQL binary logging.
+#  Defaults to false
+#
+# [*binary_logs_period*]
+#  (optional) Set binary logrotation period in days.
+#  Defaults to 1
+#
+# [*binary_logs_maxsize*]
+# (optional) If a write to the binary log causes the current log file
+# size to exceed the value of this variable, the server rotates the
+# binary logs (closes the current file and opens the next one). The
+# minimum value is 4096 bytes. The maximum and default value is 512MB.
+
 class galera (
   $cluster_name         = 'openstack',
   $primary_controller   = false,
@@ -78,6 +92,9 @@ class galera (
   $wsrep_sst_password   = undef,
   $use_percona          = false,
   $use_percona_packages = false,
+  $binary_logs_enabled  = false,
+  $binary_logs_period   = 1,
+  $binary_logs_maxsize  = '512M',
   ) {
 
   include galera::params
diff --git a/deployment/puppet/galera/templates/wsrep.cnf.erb b/deployment/puppet/galera/templates/wsrep.cnf.erb
index a892b15eeb..90c4b9b6a8 100644
--- a/deployment/puppet/galera/templates/wsrep.cnf.erb
+++ b/deployment/puppet/galera/templates/wsrep.cnf.erb
@@ -5,12 +5,15 @@ port=3307
 max_connections=<%= @max_connections %>
 default-storage-engine=innodb
 binlog_format=ROW
-log_bin=mysql-bin
 collation-server=utf8_general_ci
 init-connect='SET NAMES utf8'
 character-set-server=utf8
 default-storage-engine=innodb
-expire_logs_days=10
+<% if @binary_logs_enabled -%>
+log_bin=mysql-bin
+expire_logs_days=<%= @binary_logs_period %>
+max_binlog_size=<%= @binary_logs_maxsize %>
+<% end -%>
 
 skip-external-locking
 <% if @skip_name_resolve -%>
diff --git a/tests/noop/spec/hosts/database/database_spec.rb b/tests/noop/spec/hosts/database/database_spec.rb
index a028d753b1..00643594da 100644
--- a/tests/noop/spec/hosts/database/database_spec.rb
+++ b/tests/noop/spec/hosts/database/database_spec.rb
@@ -62,6 +62,12 @@ describe manifest do
       provider = nil
     end
 
+    it {
+      should contain_file('/etc/mysql/conf.d/wsrep.cnf').without(
+        :content => /.*log_bin=mysql-bin.*/,
+      )
+    }
+
     it {
       should contain_haproxy_backend_status('mysql').with(
         :url      => url,