diff --git a/hiera.yaml b/hiera.yaml
index 989092ee..5e5bf9a9 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/7ejidqmfi9/encnew
   data_hash: yaml_data
 
 hierarchy:
diff --git a/linuxaid_enc.rb b/linuxaid_enc.rb
index 0f8651a4..33a87d40 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 = 'encnew'
 OBMONDO_MONITOR = true
 SUBSCRIPTION = false
 HIERA_DATADIR = '../../hiera-data'