diff --git a/deployments/datahub/config/common.yaml b/deployments/datahub/config/common.yaml
index 8833165e1..5683e39bc 100644
--- a/deployments/datahub/config/common.yaml
+++ b/deployments/datahub/config/common.yaml
@@ -73,14 +73,9 @@ jupyterhub:
         c.JupyterHub.template_paths = ['/usr/local/share/jupyterhub/custom_templates/']
 
   proxy:
-    service:
-      type: LoadBalancer
     chp:
       nodeSelector:
         hub.jupyter.org/pool-name: core-pool-2024-05-08
-    traefik:
-      nodeSelector:
-        hub.jupyter.org/pool-name: core-pool-2024-05-08
   singleuser:
     extraEnv:
       # Unset NotebookApp from hub/values. Necessary for recent lab versions.
diff --git a/deployments/dev/config/common.yaml b/deployments/dev/config/common.yaml
index 46bc8d6b3..c8c081302 100644
--- a/deployments/dev/config/common.yaml
+++ b/deployments/dev/config/common.yaml
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ jupyterhub:
     extraEnv:
       # Unset NotebookApp from hub/values. Necessary for recent lab versions.
       JUPYTERHUB_SINGLEUSER_APP: "jupyter_server.serverapp.ServerApp"
-    defaultUrl: /rstudio
+    defaultUrl: /lab
     profileList:
       - display_name: "Dockerfile image"
         description: "This is the original dev image."
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ jupyterhub:
       - display_name: "Dashboard image"
         description: "A newer repo2docker-based image with a primary focus of building dashboards."
         kubespawner_override:
-          image: us-central1-docker.pkg.dev/ucb-datahub-2018/user-images/dev-secondary:1a64e0a
+          image: us-central1-docker.pkg.dev/ucb-datahub-2018/user-images/dev-secondary:36280727a
       - display_name: "1524699: DataHub Infrastructure"
         slug: "1524699"
         description: "Regular image with per-course subpath."
diff --git a/node-placeholder/values.yaml b/node-placeholder/values.yaml
index bb27bc699..f6760f10b 100644
--- a/node-placeholder/values.yaml
+++ b/node-placeholder/values.yaml
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ nodePools:
       requests:
         # Some value slightly lower than allocatable RAM on the nodepool
         memory: 29247442944
-    replicas: 0
+    replicas: 1
   dlab:
     nodeSelector:
       hub.jupyter.org/pool-name: dlab-pool