diff --git a/build.py b/build.py
index 5546503..7a5a489 100644
--- a/build.py
+++ b/build.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ use_plugin("python.distutils")
 default_task = "publish"
 
 name = "ddadevops"
-version = "4.0.0-dev47"
+version = "4.0.0-dev48"
 summary = "tools to support builds combining gopass, terraform, dda-pallet, aws & hetzner-cloud"
 description = __doc__
 authors = [Author("meissa GmbH", "buero@meissa-gmbh.de")]
diff --git a/src/main/python/ddadevops/domain/provs_k3s.py b/src/main/python/ddadevops/domain/provs_k3s.py
index 5e809d9..20e0a1d 100644
--- a/src/main/python/ddadevops/domain/provs_k3s.py
+++ b/src/main/python/ddadevops/domain/provs_k3s.py
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ class K3s(Validateable):
 
     def validate(self) -> List[str]:
         result = []
-        result += self.__validate_is_not_empty__("k3s_provision_user")
         result += self.__validate_is_not_empty__("k3s_letsencrypt_email")
         result += self.__validate_is_not_empty__("k3s_letsencrypt_endpoint")
         result += self.__validate_is_not_empty__("k3s_app_filename_to_provision")
diff --git a/src/test/python/domain/helper.py b/src/test/python/domain/helper.py
index dc83665..9386531 100644
--- a/src/test/python/domain/helper.py
+++ b/src/test/python/domain/helper.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ def devops_config(overrides: dict) -> dict:
         "k3s_provision_user": "k3s_provision_user",
         "k3s_letsencrypt_email": "k3s_letsencrypt_email",
         "k3s_letsencrypt_endpoint": "k3s_letsencrypt_endpoint",
-        "k3s_enable_echo": False,
+        "k3s_enable_echo": "false",
         "k3s_app_filename_to_provision": "k3s_app.yaml",
         "release_type": "NONE",
         "release_main_branch": "main",