diff --git a/examples/kafka-single.yaml b/examples/kafka-single.yaml
index 31aa36c..5a7e496 100644
--- a/examples/kafka-single.yaml
+++ b/examples/kafka-single.yaml
@@ -16,5 +16,10 @@
 # for development purposes deploy a single instance of kafka
 
 replicas: 1
+enabled: true
+persistence:
+  enabled: false
 zookeeper:
+  persistence:
+    enabled: false
   servers: 1 # NOTE this differs from the zookeper documentation as the kafka chart is still referencing zookeper 0.5.0
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diff --git a/xos-services/volt/templates/_helpers.tpl b/xos-services/volt/templates/_helpers.tpl
index 6b6791d..bbf2a38 100644
--- a/xos-services/volt/templates/_helpers.tpl
+++ b/xos-services/volt/templates/_helpers.tpl
@@ -52,6 +52,9 @@
   username: {{ .Values.xosAdminUser | quote }}
   password: {{ .Values.xosAdminPassword | quote }}
   endpoint: xos-core:50051
+event_bus:
+  endpoint: cord-kafka-kafka
+  kind: kafka
 required_models:
   - VOLTService
   - VOLTServiceInstance
@@ -62,6 +65,7 @@
 models_dir: "/opt/xos/synchronizers/volt/models"
 steps_dir: "/opt/xos/synchronizers/volt/steps"
 pull_steps_dir: "/opt/xos/synchronizers/volt/pull_steps"
+event_steps_dir: "/opt/xos/synchronizers/volt/event_steps"
 logging:
   version: 1
   handlers: