diff --git a/core/admin/migrations/env.py b/core/admin/migrations/env.py
index 45938160..bb43fc55 100755
--- a/core/admin/migrations/env.py
+++ b/core/admin/migrations/env.py
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ from alembic import context
 from sqlalchemy import engine_from_config, pool
 from logging.config import fileConfig
 import logging
+import tenacity
+from tenacity import retry
 
 # this is the Alembic Config object, which provides
 # access to the values within the .ini file in use.
@@ -68,8 +70,8 @@ def run_migrations_online():
     engine = engine_from_config(config.get_section(config.config_ini_section),
                                 prefix='sqlalchemy.',
                                 poolclass=pool.NullPool)
+    connection = retry(engine.connect, stop=tenacity.stop_after_attempt(100), wait=tenacity.wait_random(min=2, max=5))()
 
-    connection = engine.connect()
     context.configure(connection=connection,
                       target_metadata=target_metadata,
                       process_revision_directives=process_revision_directives,
diff --git a/core/admin/requirements-prod.txt b/core/admin/requirements-prod.txt
index 0b9489cc..ba206f12 100644
--- a/core/admin/requirements-prod.txt
+++ b/core/admin/requirements-prod.txt
@@ -46,3 +46,4 @@ WTForms==2.2.1
 WTForms-Components==0.10.3
 psycopg2
 sqlalchemy-citext
+tenacity
diff --git a/core/admin/requirements.txt b/core/admin/requirements.txt
index 95a65bbe..70372dee 100644
--- a/core/admin/requirements.txt
+++ b/core/admin/requirements.txt
@@ -17,3 +17,4 @@ PyYAML
 PyOpenSSL
 dnspython
 bcrypt
+tenacity