diff --git a/internal/testing/local_env_prep.sh b/internal/testing/local_env_prep.sh
index 0688b0e..149697c 100755
--- a/internal/testing/local_env_prep.sh
+++ b/internal/testing/local_env_prep.sh
@@ -35,6 +35,15 @@ fi
 echo "KIND: setting up k8s-shredder rbac..."
 kubectl apply -f "${test_dir}/rbac.yaml"
 
+if  [[ ${ENABLE_APISERVER_DEBUG} == "true" ]]
+then
+  echo -e "K8S_SHREDDER: Enable debug logging on apiserver"
+  TOKEN=$(kubectl create token default)
+
+  APISERVER=$(kubectl config view -o jsonpath="{.clusters[?(@.name==\"kind-${K8S_CLUSTER_NAME}\")].cluster.server}")
+curl -s -X PUT -d '5' "$APISERVER"/debug/flags/v --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" -k
+fi
+
 echo "KIND: deploying k8s-shredder..."
 kubectl apply -f "${test_dir}/k8s-shredder.yaml"
 
@@ -48,8 +57,8 @@ echo "KIND: deploying test applications..."
 kubectl apply -f "${test_dir}/test_apps.yaml"
 
 # Adjust the correct UID for the test-app-argo-rollout ownerReference
-rollout_uid=$(kubectl -n ns-team-k8s-shredder-test get rollout test-app-argo-rollout -ojsonpath='{.metadata.uid}')
-cat "${test_dir}/test_apps.yaml" | sed "s/REPLACE_WITH_ROLLOUT_UID/${rollout_uid}/" | kubectl apply -f -
+rollout_uid=$(kubectl -n ns-team-k8s-shredder-test get rollout test-app-argo-rollout -o jsonpath='{.metadata.uid}')
+sed "s/REPLACE_WITH_ROLLOUT_UID/${rollout_uid}/" < "${test_dir}/test_apps.yaml"  | kubectl apply -f -
 
 
 echo "K8S_SHREDDER: waiting for k8s-shredder deployment to become ready!"
@@ -65,6 +74,18 @@ while [[  ${status} == *"False"* || -z ${status} ]]; do
         jq '.items[].status.conditions[] | select(.type=="Ready")| .status' 2> /dev/null)
   retry_count=$((retry_count+1))
 done
+echo ""
+
+echo "K8S_SHREDDER: waiting for rollout object PDB to become ready!"
+retry_count=0
+while [[ $(kubectl get pdb -n ns-team-k8s-shredder-test test-app-argo-rollout \
+           -o jsonpath="{.status.currentHealthy}"  2> /dev/null) != "2" ]]; do
+  # set 5 minute timeout
+  if [[ ${retry_count} == 600 ]]; then echo "Timeout exceeded!" && exit 1; fi
+  # shellcheck disable=SC2059
+  printf "\b${sp:i++%${#sp}:1}" && sleep 0.5;
+  retry_count=$((retry_count+1))
+done
 
 echo ""
 kubectl logs -l app=k8s-shredder -n kube-system
diff --git a/internal/testing/rbac.yaml b/internal/testing/rbac.yaml
index 57fad7d..0ce03f3 100644
--- a/internal/testing/rbac.yaml
+++ b/internal/testing/rbac.yaml
@@ -34,4 +34,32 @@ rules:
   - apiGroups: [ "argoproj.io" ]
     resources: [ rollouts ]
     verbs: [ get, list, watch, update, patch ]
-
+---
+apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
+kind: ClusterRole
+metadata:
+  name: edit-debug-flags-v
+rules:
+- apiGroups:
+  - ""
+  resources:
+  - nodes/proxy
+  verbs:
+  - update
+- nonResourceURLs:
+  - /debug/flags/v
+  verbs:
+  - put
+---
+apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
+kind: ClusterRoleBinding
+metadata:
+  name: edit-debug-flags-v
+roleRef:
+  apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
+  kind: ClusterRole
+  name: edit-debug-flags-v
+subjects:
+- kind: ServiceAccount
+  name: default
+  namespace: default
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/internal/testing/test_apps.yaml b/internal/testing/test_apps.yaml
index e22eaf9..7852bc1 100644
--- a/internal/testing/test_apps.yaml
+++ b/internal/testing/test_apps.yaml
@@ -266,16 +266,14 @@ spec:
     spec:
       affinity:
         podAntiAffinity:
-          preferredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution:
-          - weight: 100
-            podAffinityTerm:
-              labelSelector:
-                matchExpressions:
-                - key: app
-                  operator: In
-                  values:
-                  - test-app-argo-rollout
-              topologyKey: kubernetes.io/hostname
+          requiredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution:
+          - labelSelector:
+              matchExpressions:
+              - key: app
+                operator: In
+                values:
+                - test-app-argo-rollout
+            topologyKey: kubernetes.io/hostname
       containers:
       - name: test-app-argo-rollout
         image: aaneci/canary