diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 66387511a..933f9c2f5 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -112,3 +112,6 @@
 [submodule "galera"]
 	path = galera
 	url = https://github.com/rohara/puppet-galera.git
+[submodule "module-data"]
+	path = module-data
+	url = https://github.com/ripienaar/puppet-module-data
diff --git a/module-data b/module-data
new file mode 160000
index 000000000..159fc5e0e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/module-data
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 159fc5e0e21ce9df96c777f0064b5eca88e29cae