diff --git a/patterns/karpenter-mng/README.md b/patterns/karpenter-mng/README.md
index c570ff0801..80f0494b3d 100644
--- a/patterns/karpenter-mng/README.md
+++ b/patterns/karpenter-mng/README.md
@@ -11,7 +11,9 @@ This pattern demonstrates how to provision Karpenter on an EKS managed node grou
 
 ## Code
 
-```terraform hl_lines="30-36 40 58-72 75-80 98-100 106-109 117-141"
+The areas of significance related to this pattern are highlighted in the code provided below:
+
+```terraform hl_lines="20-28 31 49-62 67-70 89-91 97-100 108-132"
 {% include  "../../patterns/karpenter-mng/eks.tf" %}
 ```
 
@@ -38,9 +40,9 @@ See [here](https://aws-ia.github.io/terraform-aws-eks-blueprints/getting-started
     ```sh
     kubectl get nodes
 
-    NAME                                       STATUS   ROLES    AGE     VERSION
-    ip-10-0-18-71.us-west-2.compute.internal   Ready    <none>   3h44m   v1.29.3-eks-ae9a62a
-    ip-10-0-46-81.us-west-2.compute.internal   Ready    <none>   3h44m   v1.29.3-eks-ae9a62a
+    NAME                                      STATUS   ROLES    AGE     VERSION
+    ip-10-0-38-5.us-west-2.compute.internal   Ready    <none>   2m40s   v1.29.3-eks-ae9a62a
+    ip-10-0-9-38.us-west-2.compute.internal   Ready    <none>   2m35s   v1.29.3-eks-ae9a62a
     ```
 
 2. Provision the Karpenter `EC2NodeClass` and `NodePool` resources which provide Karpenter the necessary configurations to provision EC2 resources:
@@ -67,9 +69,9 @@ See [here](https://aws-ia.github.io/terraform-aws-eks-blueprints/getting-started
     kubectl get nodes
 
     NAME                                        STATUS   ROLES    AGE     VERSION
-    ip-10-0-18-71.us-west-2.compute.internal    Ready    <none>   3h53m   v1.29.3-eks-ae9a62a
-    ip-10-0-37-213.us-west-2.compute.internal   Ready    <none>   17s     v1.29.3-eks-ae9a62a # <== EC2 created by Karpenter
-    ip-10-0-46-81.us-west-2.compute.internal    Ready    <none>   3h53m   v1.29.3-eks-ae9a62a
+    ip-10-0-38-109.us-west-2.compute.internal   Ready    <none>   11s     v1.29.3-eks-ae9a62a # <== EC2 created by Karpenter
+    ip-10-0-38-5.us-west-2.compute.internal     Ready    <none>   3m54s   v1.29.3-eks-ae9a62a
+    ip-10-0-9-38.us-west-2.compute.internal     Ready    <none>   3m49s   v1.29.3-eks-ae9a62a
     ```
 
 ## Destroy
diff --git a/patterns/karpenter-mng/eks.tf b/patterns/karpenter-mng/eks.tf
index 37cb797d1f..a1214cb5c8 100644
--- a/patterns/karpenter-mng/eks.tf
+++ b/patterns/karpenter-mng/eks.tf
@@ -18,15 +18,6 @@ module "eks" {
     coredns = {
       configuration_values = jsonencode({
         tolerations = [
-          # Carry-over the default values from the addon
-          {
-            key      = "CriticalAddonsOnly"
-            operator = "Exists"
-          },
-          {
-            key    = "node-role.kubernetes.io/control-plane"
-            effect = "NoSchedule"
-          },
           # Allow CoreDNS to run on the same nodes as the Karpenter controller
           # for use during cluster creation when Karpenter nodes do not yet exist
           {
@@ -63,7 +54,7 @@ module "eks" {
       taints = {
         # The pods that do not tolerate this taint should run on nodes
         # created by Karpenter
-        gpu = {
+        karpenter = {
           key    = "karpenter.sh/controller"
           value  = "true"
           effect = "NO_SCHEDULE"