diff --git a/docs/nodevertical.md b/docs/nodevertical.md
index f4600d9a..2b1a2901 100644
--- a/docs/nodevertical.md
+++ b/docs/nodevertical.md
@@ -150,8 +150,27 @@ Period of time (in seconds) that cluster loader will wait for pods to come up to
 Default: `600`  
 Pass/fail criteria. Value to determine if NodeVertical workload executed in duration expected.
 
-## Smoke test variables
+### NODEVERTICAL_HEAVY
+Default: `false`
+Trigger nodevertical heavy workload. Rather than deploy sleep pods throughout all labeled nodes, this workload deploys a two layer application composed by a PostgreSQL database pod and another pod wih simple application that is able to perform several operations and store a result in the database. [Heavy node vertical app](https://github.com/rsevilla87/perfApp)
+
+### NODEVERTICAL_HEAVY_PROBE_ENDPOINT
+Default: `/ready`
+Readiness probe endpoint for the application deployed by the heavy nodevertical. The default `/ready` endpoint inserts a record with the current timestamp in the ts table of the DDBB. i.e. `INSERT INTO ts VALUES ('2006-01-02T15:04:05Z07:00')`
 
+Results obtained of running 2 pods (client + database) with the default `/ready` endpoint.
+```
+# oc adm top pods -n nodevertical
+NAME                            CPU(cores)   MEMORY(bytes)
+perfapp-99-67684bbc6d-98kdq     0m           8Mi
+postgres-0-7bd7864c58-j7ndx     0m           32Mi
+```
+
+### NODEVERTICAL_HEAVY_PROBE_PERIOD
+Default: `30`
+Readiness probe period for the application deployed by the heavy nodevertical.
+
+## Smoke test variables
 ```
 NODEVERTICAL_NODE_COUNT=4
 NODEVERTICAL_TEST_PREFIX=nodevertical_smoke
diff --git a/workloads/nodevertical.yml b/workloads/nodevertical.yml
index 92b12bbe..0efa2d1a 100644
--- a/workloads/nodevertical.yml
+++ b/workloads/nodevertical.yml
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@
 
     - name: Set NodeVertical template
       set_fact:
-        nodevertical_template: "{% if nodevertical_heavy %}workload-nodevertical-heavy-script-cm.yml.j2{% else %}workload-nodevertical-script-cm.yml.j2{% endif %}"
+        nodevertical_template: "{% if nodevertical_heavy|bool %}workload-nodevertical-heavy-script-cm.yml.j2{% else %}workload-nodevertical-script-cm.yml.j2{% endif %}"
 
     - name: Template workload templates
       template:
diff --git a/workloads/templates/workload-nodevertical-heavy-script-cm.yml.j2 b/workloads/templates/workload-nodevertical-heavy-script-cm.yml.j2
index bbb374b3..8a2e4701 100644
--- a/workloads/templates/workload-nodevertical-heavy-script-cm.yml.j2
+++ b/workloads/templates/workload-nodevertical-heavy-script-cm.yml.j2
@@ -134,8 +134,8 @@ data:
     metadata:
       name: perf-app
     objects:
-    - kind: DeploymentConfig
-      apiVersion: v1
+    - kind: Deployment
+      apiVersion: apps/v1
       metadata:
         name: postgres-${IDENTIFIER}
       spec:
@@ -169,13 +169,14 @@ data:
             serviceAccount: ''
         replicas: 1
         selector:
-          name: postgres-${IDENTIFIER}
+          matchLabels:
+            name: postgres-${IDENTIFIER}
         triggers:
         - type: ConfigChange
         strategy:
-          type: Rolling
-    - kind: DeploymentConfig
-      apiVersion: v1
+          type: RollingUpdate
+    - kind: Deployment
+      apiVersion: apps/v1
       metadata:
         name: perfapp-${IDENTIFIER}
       spec:
@@ -223,11 +224,12 @@ data:
             serviceAccount: ''
         replicas: 1
         selector:
-          name: perfapp-${IDENTIFIER}
+          matchLabels:
+            name: perfapp-${IDENTIFIER}
         triggers:
         - type: ConfigChange
         strategy:
-          type: Rolling
+          type: RollingUpdate
     - kind: Service
       apiVersion: v1
       metadata: