diff --git a/examples/va/hci/edpm-pre-ceph/values.yaml b/examples/va/hci/edpm-pre-ceph/values.yaml
index 30ca0c002..3aada3137 100644
--- a/examples/va/hci/edpm-pre-ceph/values.yaml
+++ b/examples/va/hci/edpm-pre-ceph/values.yaml
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ metadata:
   annotations:
     config.kubernetes.io/local-config: "true"
 data:
+  deployment:
+    name: edpm-deployment-pre-ceph
   ssh_keys:
     # Authorized keys that will have access to the dataplane computes via SSH
     authorized: CHANGEME
diff --git a/va/hci/edpm-pre-ceph/kustomization.yaml b/va/hci/edpm-pre-ceph/kustomization.yaml
index 5e48047b0..8f272b24c 100644
--- a/va/hci/edpm-pre-ceph/kustomization.yaml
+++ b/va/hci/edpm-pre-ceph/kustomization.yaml
@@ -19,11 +19,15 @@ transformers:
 components:
 - ../../../lib/dataplane
 
-patches:
-- target:
-    kind: OpenStackDataPlaneDeployment
-    name: .*
-  patch: |-
-    - op: replace
-      path: /metadata/name
-      value: edpm-deployment-pre-ceph
+replacements:
+- source:
+    kind: ConfigMap
+    name: edpm-values
+    fieldPath: data.deployment.name
+  targets:
+  - select:
+      kind: OpenStackDataPlaneDeployment
+    fieldPaths:
+    - metadata.name
+    options:
+      create: true