diff --git a/galaxy_ng/app/dynaconf_hooks.py b/galaxy_ng/app/dynaconf_hooks.py
index 5e4ee561b9..e6390fd911 100755
--- a/galaxy_ng/app/dynaconf_hooks.py
+++ b/galaxy_ng/app/dynaconf_hooks.py
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ def post(settings: Dynaconf) -> Dict[str, Any]:
     data.update(configure_password_validators(settings))
     data.update(configure_api_base_path(settings))
     data.update(configure_legacy_roles(settings))
+    data.update(configure_dab_resource_registry(settings))
 
     # This should go last, and it needs to receive the data from the previous configuration
     # functions because this function configures the rest framework auth classes based off
@@ -55,6 +56,17 @@ def post(settings: Dynaconf) -> Dict[str, Any]:
     return data
 
 
+def configure_dab_resource_registry(settings: Dynaconf) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+    flags = settings.get("GALAXY_FEATURE_FLAGS")
+
+    data = {}
+    if flags["dab_resource_registry"]:
+        data["INSTALLED_APPS"] = ['ansible_base.resource_registry', 'dynaconf_merge']
+        data["ANSIBLE_BASE_RESOURCE_CONFIG_MODULE"] = "galaxy_ng.app.api.resource_api"
+
+    return data
+
+
 def configure_keycloak(settings: Dynaconf) -> Dict[str, Any]:
     """Configure keycloak settings for galaxy.
 
diff --git a/galaxy_ng/app/settings.py b/galaxy_ng/app/settings.py
index 17b0bef1e5..57dfc83449 100644
--- a/galaxy_ng/app/settings.py
+++ b/galaxy_ng/app/settings.py
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@
 
 INSTALLED_APPS = [
     'rest_framework.authtoken',
-    'ansible_base.resource_registry',
     'dynaconf_merge',
 ]
 
@@ -102,6 +101,7 @@
     'execution_environments': True,  # False will make execution_environments endpoints 404
     'legacy_roles': False,
     'ai_deny_index': False,  # False will make _ui/v1/ai_deny_index/ to 404
+    'dab_resource_registry': False,
 }
 
 AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS = [
@@ -298,7 +298,6 @@
 GALAXY_DYNAMIC_SETTINGS = False
 
 # DJANGO ANSIBLE BASE RESOURCES REGISTRY SETTINGS
-ANSIBLE_BASE_RESOURCE_CONFIG_MODULE = "galaxy_ng.app.api.resource_api"
 ANSIBLE_BASE_ORGANIZATION_MODEL = "galaxy.Organization"
 
 # WARNING: This setting is used in database migrations to create a default organization.
diff --git a/galaxy_ng/app/urls.py b/galaxy_ng/app/urls.py
index 05dbdf94f0..9c83a57c0e 100644
--- a/galaxy_ng/app/urls.py
+++ b/galaxy_ng/app/urls.py
@@ -7,10 +7,6 @@
 from galaxy_ng.app.api import urls as api_urls
 from galaxy_ng.ui import urls as ui_urls
 
-from ansible_base.resource_registry.urls import (
-    urlpatterns as resource_api_urls,
-)
-
 from drf_spectacular.views import (
     SpectacularJSONAPIView,
     SpectacularYAMLAPIView,
@@ -49,21 +45,24 @@
         name="swagger-ui",
     ),
     path("healthz", views.health_view),
-    path(f"{API_PATH_PREFIX}", include(resource_api_urls))
 ]
 
+if settings["GALAXY_FEATURE_FLAGS"]["dab_resource_registry"]:
+    from ansible_base.resource_registry.urls import (
+        urlpatterns as resource_api_urls,
+    )
+    urlpatterns.append(path(f"{API_PATH_PREFIX}/", include(resource_api_urls)))
+
 if settings.get("API_ROOT") != "/pulp/":
     urlpatterns.append(
-        path(
-            "pulp/api/<path:api_path>",
-            views.PulpAPIRedirectView.as_view(),
-            name="pulp_redirect")
+        path("pulp/api/<path:api_path>", views.PulpAPIRedirectView.as_view(), name="pulp_redirect")
     )
 
 if settings.get("SOCIAL_AUTH_KEYCLOAK_KEY"):
     urlpatterns.append(url("", include("social_django.urls", namespace="social")))
-    urlpatterns.append(path("login/",
-                       lambda request: redirect("/login/keycloak/", permanent=False)))
+    urlpatterns.append(
+        path("login/", lambda request: redirect("/login/keycloak/", permanent=False))
+    )
 
 if settings.get("SOCIAL_AUTH_GITHUB_KEY"):
-    urlpatterns.append(url('', include('social_django.urls', namespace='github')))
+    urlpatterns.append(url("", include("social_django.urls", namespace="github")))
diff --git a/profiles/dab/pulp_config.env b/profiles/dab/pulp_config.env
index 3566231d12..6641c3b9c5 100644
--- a/profiles/dab/pulp_config.env
+++ b/profiles/dab/pulp_config.env
@@ -3,3 +3,5 @@ PULP_GALAXY_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES="['ansible_base.jwt_consumer.hub.auth.HubJWTA
 PULP_ANSIBLE_BASE_JWT_VALIDATE_CERT=false
 PULP_ANSIBLE_BASE_JWT_KEY=https://localhost
 PULP_CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS = ['https://localhost']
+
+PULP_GALAXY_FEATURE_FLAGS__dab_resource_registry=true
\ No newline at end of file