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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