diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.github_repo_name}}/doc/terraform-init-stack.png b/{{cookiecutter.github_repo_name}}/doc/terraform-init-stack.png
index 8ae13542..063ce453 100644
Binary files a/{{cookiecutter.github_repo_name}}/doc/terraform-init-stack.png and b/{{cookiecutter.github_repo_name}}/doc/terraform-init-stack.png differ
diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.github_repo_name}}/terraform/stacks/modules/kubernetes_karpenter/main.tf b/{{cookiecutter.github_repo_name}}/terraform/stacks/modules/kubernetes_karpenter/main.tf
index ad30948d..6ef9d6f5 100644
--- a/{{cookiecutter.github_repo_name}}/terraform/stacks/modules/kubernetes_karpenter/main.tf
+++ b/{{cookiecutter.github_repo_name}}/terraform/stacks/modules/kubernetes_karpenter/main.tf
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ module "karpenter_controller_irsa_role" {
 
 
 resource "helm_release" "karpenter" {
-  namespace        = "monitoring"
+  namespace        = "karpenter"
   create_namespace = true
 
   name       = "karpenter"
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ resource "aws_iam_role_policy_attachment" "ec2_spot_fleet_tagging" {
 }
 
 resource "kubectl_manifest" "vpa-karpenter" {
-  yaml_body = file("${path.module}/yml/verticalpodautoscalers/vpa-karpenter.yaml")
+  yaml_body = file("${path.module}/yml/vpa-karpenter.yaml")
 
   depends_on = [
     helm_release.karpenter
diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.github_repo_name}}/terraform/stacks/modules/kubernetes_karpenter/verticalpodautoscalers.tf b/{{cookiecutter.github_repo_name}}/terraform/stacks/modules/kubernetes_karpenter/verticalpodautoscalers.tf
index a5ac6ebc..4e7095e1 100644
--- a/{{cookiecutter.github_repo_name}}/terraform/stacks/modules/kubernetes_karpenter/verticalpodautoscalers.tf
+++ b/{{cookiecutter.github_repo_name}}/terraform/stacks/modules/kubernetes_karpenter/verticalpodautoscalers.tf
@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@ data "template_file" "karpenter" {
   template = file("${path.module}/yml/vpa-karpenter.yaml")
 }
 
-resource "kubectl_manifest" "nginx" {
+resource "kubectl_manifest" "karpenter" {
   yaml_body = data.template_file.karpenter.rendered
+
+  depends_on = [
+    helm_release.karpenter
+  ]
 }
diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.github_repo_name}}/terraform/stacks/modules/kubernetes_karpenter/yml/vpa-karpenter.yaml b/{{cookiecutter.github_repo_name}}/terraform/stacks/modules/kubernetes_karpenter/yml/vpa-karpenter.yaml
index 515c5fba..d29751f9 100644
--- a/{{cookiecutter.github_repo_name}}/terraform/stacks/modules/kubernetes_karpenter/yml/vpa-karpenter.yaml
+++ b/{{cookiecutter.github_repo_name}}/terraform/stacks/modules/kubernetes_karpenter/yml/vpa-karpenter.yaml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ apiVersion: autoscaling.k8s.io/v1
 kind: VerticalPodAutoscaler
 metadata:
   name: vpa-recommender-karpenter
-  namespace: vpa
+  namespace: karpenter
 spec:
   targetRef:
     apiVersion: "apps/v1"