diff --git a/script/database_setup.py b/script/database_setup.py
index bab95890..623dfd8b 100644
--- a/script/database_setup.py
+++ b/script/database_setup.py
@@ -1,13 +1,11 @@
 # Add root application dir to the python path
 import os
 import sys
-from contextlib import contextmanager
 
 parent_dir = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), ".."))
 sys.path.append(parent_dir)
 
 import sqlalchemy
-from alembic import config as alembic_config
 import yaml
 
 from atst.app import make_config, make_app
@@ -25,7 +23,6 @@ def database_setup(username, password, dbname, ccpo_users):
     try:
         _create_database_user(username, password, dbname)
     except sqlalchemy.exc.ProgrammingError as err:
-        raise err
         print(f"Postgres user role '{username}' already exists.")
 
     print("Applying schema and seeding roles and permissions.")
diff --git a/terraform/secrets-tool/README.md b/terraform/secrets-tool/README.md
index 28b44817..9ce07497 100644
--- a/terraform/secrets-tool/README.md
+++ b/terraform/secrets-tool/README.md
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ With both usernames and passwords generated, the application only needs to make
 Ex.
 ```
 {
-    'postgres_root_user': 'EzTEzSNLKQPHuJyPdPloIDCAlcibbl',             
+    'postgres_root_user': 'EzTEzSNLKQPHuJyPdPloIDCAlcibbl',
     'postgres_root_password': "2+[A@E4:C=ubb/#R#'n<p|wCW-|%q^"
 }
 ```
@@ -30,6 +30,40 @@ Terraform typically expects user defined secrets to be stored in either a file,
 
 This provides a number of security benefits. First, secrets are not on disk. Secondly, users/operators never see the secrets fly by (passerbys or voyeurs that like to look over your shoulder when deploying to production)
 
+## Setting up the initial ATAT database
+
+This handles bootstrapping the ATAT database with a user, schema, and initial data.
+
+It does the following:
+
+- Sources the Postgres root user credentials
+- Source the Postgres ATAT user password
+- Runs a script inside an ATAT docker container to set up the initial database user, schema, and seed data in the database
+
+Requirements:
+
+- docker
+- A copy of the ATAT docker image. This can be built in the repo root with: `docker build . --build-arg CSP=azure -f ./Dockerfile -t atat:latest`
+- You need to know the hostname for the Postgres database. Your IP must either be whitelisted in its firewall rules or you must be behind the VPN.
+- There should be a password for the ATAT database user in the application Key Vault, preferably named `PGPASSWORD`. You can load this by running `secrets-tool --keyvault [operator key vault url] load -f postgres-user.yml` and supplying YAML like:
+
+```
+---
+- PGPASSWORD:
+    type: 'password'
+    length: 30
+```
+
+This command takes a lot of arguments. Run `secrets-tool database --keyvault [operator key vault url] provision -- help` to see the full list of available options.
+
+The command supplies some defaults by assuming you've followed the patterns in sample-secrets.yml and elsewhere.
+
+An example would be:
+
+```
+secrets-tool database --keyvault [operator key vault URL] provision --app-keyvault [application key vault URL] --dbname jedidev-atat --dbhost [database host name] --ccpo-users /full/path/to/users.yml
+```
+
 # Setup
 
 *Requirements*
@@ -76,4 +110,4 @@ secrets-tool secrets --keyvault https://operator-dev-keyvault.vault.azure.net/ l
 This will fetch all secrets from the keyvault specified. `secrets-tool` then converts the keys to a variable name that terraform will look for. Essentially it prepends the keys found in KeyVault with `TF_VAR` and then executes terraform as a subprocess with the injected environment variables.
 ```
 secrets-tool terraform --keyvault https://operator-dev-keyvault.vault.azure.net/ plan
-```
\ No newline at end of file
+```
diff --git a/terraform/secrets-tool/commands/database.py b/terraform/secrets-tool/commands/database.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e181741c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/terraform/secrets-tool/commands/database.py
@@ -0,0 +1,134 @@
+import os
+import click
+import logging
+import subprocess
+
+from utils.keyvault.secrets import SecretsClient
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+def _run_cmd(command):
+    try:
+        env = os.environ.copy()
+        with subprocess.Popen(
+            command, env=env, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, shell=True
+        ) as proc:
+            for line in proc.stdout:
+                logging.info(line.decode("utf-8"))
+    except Exception as e:
+        print(e)
+
+
+@click.group()
+@click.option("--keyvault", required=True, help="Specify the keyvault to operate on")
+@click.pass_context
+def database(ctx, keyvault):
+    ctx.ensure_object(dict)
+    ctx.obj["keyvault"] = keyvault
+
+
+# root password, root username
+@click.command("provision")
+@click.option(
+    "--app-keyvault",
+    "app_keyvault",
+    required=True,
+    help="The username for the new Postgres user.",
+)
+@click.option(
+    "--user-username",
+    "user_username",
+    default="atat",
+    required=True,
+    help="The username for the new Postgres user.",
+)
+@click.option(
+    "--user-password-key",
+    "user_password_key",
+    default="PGPASSWORD",
+    required=True,
+    help="The name of the user's password key in the specified vault.",
+)
+@click.option(
+    "--root-username-key",
+    "root_username_key",
+    default="postgres-root-user",
+    required=True,
+    help="The name of the user's password key in the specified vault.",
+)
+@click.option(
+    "--root-password-key",
+    "root_password_key",
+    default="postgres-root-password",
+    required=True,
+    help="The name of the user's password key in the specified vault.",
+)
+@click.option(
+    "--dbname",
+    "dbname",
+    required=True,
+    help="The name of the database the user will be given full access to.",
+)
+@click.option(
+    "--dbhost",
+    "dbhost",
+    required=True,
+    help="The name of the database the user will be given full access to.",
+)
+@click.option(
+    "--container",
+    "container",
+    default="atat:latest",
+    required=True,
+    help="The container to run the provisioning command in.",
+)
+@click.option(
+    "--ccpo-users",
+    "ccpo_users",
+    required=True,
+    help="The full path to a YAML file listing CCPO users to be seeded to the database.",
+)
+@click.pass_context
+def provision(
+    ctx,
+    app_keyvault,
+    user_username,
+    user_password_key,
+    root_username_key,
+    root_password_key,
+    dbname,
+    dbhost,
+    container,
+    ccpo_users,
+):
+    """
+    Set up the initial ATAT database.
+    """
+    logger.info("obtaining postgres root user credentials")
+    operator_keyvault = SecretsClient(vault_url=ctx.obj["keyvault"])
+    root_password = operator_keyvault.get_secret(root_password_key)
+    root_name = operator_keyvault.get_secret(root_username_key)
+
+    logger.info("obtaining postgres database user password")
+    app_keyvault = SecretsClient(vault_url=app_keyvault)
+    user_password = app_keyvault.get_secret(user_password_key)
+
+    logger.info("starting docker process")
+
+    cmd = (
+        f"docker run -e PGHOST={dbhost}"
+        +f" -e PGPASSWORD=\"{root_password}\""
+        +f" -e PGUSER='{root_name}@{dbhost}'"
+        +f" -e PGDATABASE=\"{dbname}\""
+        +f" -e REDIS_HOST=host.docker.internal"
+        +f" -e PGSSLMODE=require"
+        +f" -v {ccpo_users}:/opt/atat/atst/users.yml"
+        +f" {container}"
+        +f" .venv/bin/python script/database_setup.py {user_username} '{user_password}' users.yml"
+    )
+    print(cmd)
+    _run_cmd(cmd)
+
+
+database.add_command(provision)
diff --git a/terraform/secrets-tool/postgres-user.yaml b/terraform/secrets-tool/postgres-user.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ffca46ea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/terraform/secrets-tool/postgres-user.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+---
+- PGPASSWORD:
+    type: 'password'
+    length: 30
diff --git a/terraform/secrets-tool/secrets-tool b/terraform/secrets-tool/secrets-tool
index 58079e3e..04270813 100755
--- a/terraform/secrets-tool/secrets-tool
+++ b/terraform/secrets-tool/secrets-tool
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import logging
 
 from commands.secrets import secrets
 from commands.terraform import terraform
+from commands.database import database
 
 config.setup_logging()
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
@@ -21,6 +22,7 @@ def cli():
 # Add additional command groups
 cli.add_command(secrets)
 cli.add_command(terraform)
+cli.add_command(database)
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
@@ -41,12 +43,12 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
             val = keyvault.get_secret(secret)
             #print(val)
             os.environ[name] = val
-        env = os.environ.copy() 
+        env = os.environ.copy()
         command = "{} {}".format(PROCESS, sys.argv[1])
         with subprocess.Popen(command, env=env, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, shell=True) as proc:
             for line in proc.stdout:
                 logging.info(line.decode("utf-8") )
-        
+
     except Exception as e:
         print(e, traceback.print_stack)
-'''
\ No newline at end of file
+'''
diff --git a/terraform/secrets-tool/utils/keyvault/secrets.py b/terraform/secrets-tool/utils/keyvault/secrets.py
index af8b5201..40a6120d 100644
--- a/terraform/secrets-tool/utils/keyvault/secrets.py
+++ b/terraform/secrets-tool/utils/keyvault/secrets.py
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ class SecretsLoader():
     load the secrets in to keyvault
     """
     def __init__(self, yaml_file: str, keyvault: object):
-        assert Path(yaml_file).exists() 
+        assert Path(yaml_file).exists()
         self.yaml_file = yaml_file
         self.keyvault = keyvault
         self.config = dict()
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ class SecretsLoader():
     def _load_yaml(self):
         with open(self.yaml_file) as handle:
             self.config = yaml.load(handle, Loader=yaml.FullLoader)
-    
+
     def _generate_secrets(self):
         secrets = GenerateSecrets(self.config).process_definition()
         self.secrets = secrets
@@ -60,12 +60,14 @@ class SecretsLoader():
 
 class GenerateSecrets():
     """
-    Read the secrets definition and generate requiesite 
+    Read the secrets definition and generate requiesite
     secrets based on the type of secret and arguments
     provided
     """
     def __init__(self, definitions: dict):
         self.definitions = definitions
+        most_punctuation = string.punctuation.replace("'", "").replace('"', "")
+        self.password_characters = string.ascii_letters + string.digits + most_punctuation
 
     def process_definition(self):
         """
@@ -101,9 +103,8 @@ class GenerateSecrets():
     # Types. Can be usernames, passwords, or in the future things like salted
     # tokens, uuid, or other specialized types
     def _generate_password(self, length: int):
-        self.password_characters = string.ascii_letters + string.digits + string.punctuation
         return ''.join(secrets.choice(self.password_characters) for i in range(length))
-    
+
     def _generate_username(self, length: int):
         self.username_characters = string.ascii_letters
         return ''.join(secrets.choice(self.username_characters) for i in range(length))