diff --git a/deploy/examples/pool-ec.yaml b/deploy/examples/pool-ec.yaml
index d98f964e52a56..22eaee237d2c2 100644
--- a/deploy/examples/pool-ec.yaml
+++ b/deploy/examples/pool-ec.yaml
@@ -10,11 +10,11 @@ metadata:
   namespace: rook-ceph # namespace:cluster
 spec:
   # The failure domain will spread the replicas of the data across different failure zones
-  failureDomain: osd
+  failureDomain: host
   # Make sure you have enough OSDs to support the replica size or sum of the erasure coding and data chunks.
   # This is the minimal example that requires only 3 OSDs.
   erasureCoded:
-    dataChunks: 2
+    dataChunks: 1
     codingChunks: 1
   # Set any property on a given pool
   # see https://docs.ceph.com/docs/master/rados/operations/pools/#set-pool-values
diff --git a/tests/scripts/github-action-helper.sh b/tests/scripts/github-action-helper.sh
index 25e8ede57fabc..2e5c50750d1ce 100755
--- a/tests/scripts/github-action-helper.sh
+++ b/tests/scripts/github-action-helper.sh
@@ -212,6 +212,7 @@ function deploy_cluster() {
   kubectl create -f cluster-test.yaml
   kubectl create -f object-test.yaml
   kubectl create -f pool-test.yaml
+  kubectl create -f pool-ec.yaml
   kubectl create -f filesystem-test.yaml
   kubectl create -f rbdmirror.yaml
   kubectl create -f filesystem-mirror.yaml