diff --git a/devplanetv2/dev-environments/qa-vpodc-helm/additional-configs/configmap.yaml b/devplanetv2/dev-environments/qa-vpodc-helm/additional-configs/configmap.yaml
index 141f048..8cd5602 100644
--- a/devplanetv2/dev-environments/qa-vpodc-helm/additional-configs/configmap.yaml
+++ b/devplanetv2/dev-environments/qa-vpodc-helm/additional-configs/configmap.yaml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ data:
     metadata:
       name: workflow-WORKFLOW_NAME
     spec:
-      amiFamily: AL2
+      amiFamily: AL2023
       amiSelectorTerms:
       - name: EKS-1-33-al23*
         owner: "143731057154"
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ data:
       role: eks_ENVIRONMENT_workers_role
       securityGroupSelectorTerms:
       - tags:
-          karpenter.sh/discovery: ENVIRONMENT-workflow
+          karpenter.sh/discovery: ENVIRONMENT
       subnetSelectorTerms:
       - tags:
           karpenter.sh/discovery: ENVIRONMENT
@@ -53,12 +53,9 @@ data:
         Content-Type: text/x-shellscript; charset="us-ascii"
 
         #!/bin/bash -x
-        instanceId=$(curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/dynamic/instance-identity/document | jq -r .instanceId)
-        curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/uc-cdis/cloud-automation/master/files/authorized_keys/ops_team >> /home/ec2-user/.ssh/authorized_keys
-
         echo "$(jq '.registryPullQPS=0' /etc/kubernetes/kubelet/kubelet-config.json)" > /etc/kubernetes/kubelet/kubelet-config.json
-
-        sysctl -w fs.inotify.max_user_watches=12000
+        curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/uc-cdis/cloud-automation/master/files/authorized_keys/ops_team >> /home/ec2-user/.ssh/authorized_keys &
+        sysctl -w fs.inotify.max_user_watches=12000 &
 
         --BOUNDARY--