diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index ea29c05..d31cd27 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -7,3 +7,6 @@ url = https://github.com/ethersphere/swarm.git
 [submodule "grafana-provisioning/dashboards/swarm-dashboards"]
 	path = grafana-provisioning/dashboards/swarm-dashboards
 	url = https://github.com/ethersphere/grafana-dashboards.git
+[submodule "bee"]
+	path = bee
+	url = git@github.com:ethersphere/bee.git
diff --git a/bee b/bee
new file mode 160000
index 0000000..4b98b68
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bee
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 4b98b688785b9e71b98c4745ac8eeea04f04ef7b