diff --git a/playbooks/develop/templates/simple_mariadb_config.cnf b/playbooks/develop/templates/simple_mariadb_config.cnf
index d2122d44..2e0c0d60 100644
--- a/playbooks/develop/templates/simple_mariadb_config.cnf
+++ b/playbooks/develop/templates/simple_mariadb_config.cnf
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ innodb-large-prefix=1
 character-set-client-handshake = FALSE
 character-set-server = utf8mb4
 collation-server = utf8mb4_unicode_ci
+max_allowed_packet=64M
 
 [mysql]
 default-character-set = utf8mb4