diff --git a/hiera.yaml b/hiera.yaml
index 989092ee..b74660f4 100644
--- a/hiera.yaml
+++ b/hiera.yaml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ version: 5
 defaults:
   # relative path as per puppetserver on k8s, defaulting to main branch
   # in case of opensource the customer_id will be empty
-  datadir: ../../hiera-data/%{hiera_datapath}
+  datadir: ../../hiera-data/abbnoa6nlk/blacklist
   data_hash: yaml_data
 
 hierarchy:
diff --git a/linuxaid_enc.rb b/linuxaid_enc.rb
index 0f8651a4..248fd946 100755
--- a/linuxaid_enc.rb
+++ b/linuxaid_enc.rb
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 CERTNAME = ARGV[0]
 MAX_TAGS = 10
-DEFAULT_HIERA_BRANCH = 'main'
+DEFAULT_HIERA_BRANCH = 'blacklist'
 OBMONDO_MONITOR = true
 SUBSCRIPTION = false
 HIERA_DATADIR = '../../hiera-data'
diff --git a/puppet_enc.rb b/puppet_enc.rb
index 5c54c513..8b5b146e 100755
--- a/puppet_enc.rb
+++ b/puppet_enc.rb
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 MAX_TAGS = 10
 
 # NOTE: Change this to your feature branch, if you want to test your input from hiera
-DEFAULT_HIERA_BRANCH = 'main'
+DEFAULT_HIERA_BRANCH = 'blacklist'
 
 (hostname, customer_id) = CERTNAME.split('.', 2)
 customer_host_re = /^[a-z0-9-]+$/