diff --git a/appscale/tools/local_state.py b/appscale/tools/local_state.py
index 3fb9ff68..cc0425c6 100644
--- a/appscale/tools/local_state.py
+++ b/appscale/tools/local_state.py
@@ -212,7 +212,8 @@ def generate_deployment_params(cls, options, node_layout, additional_creds):
       "user_commands": json.dumps(options.user_commands),
       "verbose": str(options.verbose),
       "flower_password": options.flower_password,
-      "default_max_appserver_memory": str(options.default_max_appserver_memory)
+      "default_max_appserver_memory": str(options.default_max_appserver_memory),
+      "fdb_clusterfile_content": options.fdb_clusterfile_content
     }
     creds.update(additional_creds)
 
diff --git a/appscale/tools/parse_args.py b/appscale/tools/parse_args.py
index b26d6140..099011d0 100644
--- a/appscale/tools/parse_args.py
+++ b/appscale/tools/parse_args.py
@@ -314,6 +314,8 @@ def add_allowed_flags(self, function):
       self.parser.add_argument('--user_commands',
         help="a base64-encoded YAML dictating the commands to run before " +
           "starting each AppController")
+      self.parser.add_argument('--fdb_clusterfile_content',
+        help="a string representing content of FoundationDB clusterfile")
     elif function == "appscale-gather-logs":
       self.parser.add_argument('--keyname', '-k', default=self.DEFAULT_KEYNAME,
         help="the keypair name to use")