diff --git a/components/clusters/k3s/kustomization.yaml b/components/clusters/k3s/kustomization.yaml
index 37a9a771..9eba6868 100644
--- a/components/clusters/k3s/kustomization.yaml
+++ b/components/clusters/k3s/kustomization.yaml
@@ -10,4 +10,4 @@ configMapGenerator:
   - name: sourcegraph-frontend-env
     behavior: merge
     literals:
-      - DEPLOY_TYPE=k3s
+      - DEPLOY_TYPE=kustomize
diff --git a/components/patches/frontend-vars.yaml b/components/patches/frontend-vars.yaml
index 2a9a7ff9..3bba379b 100644
--- a/components/patches/frontend-vars.yaml
+++ b/components/patches/frontend-vars.yaml
@@ -3,5 +3,5 @@ kind: ConfigMap
 metadata:
   name: sourcegraph-frontend-env
 data:
-  DEPLOY: kustomize
+  DEPLOY_TYPE: kustomize
   # Add env vars for frontend service below