diff --git a/apps/reloader/overlays/test/kustomization.yaml b/apps/reloader/overlays/test/kustomization.yaml
index 192ff72..30e3c2c 100644
--- a/apps/reloader/overlays/test/kustomization.yaml
+++ b/apps/reloader/overlays/test/kustomization.yaml
@@ -3,3 +3,15 @@ kind: Kustomization
 namespace: tools
 resources:
 - ../../base
+patches:
+# Add flags to reload workloads when ConfigMaps or Secrets are created or deleted
+- target:
+    kind: Deployment
+    name: reloader-reloader
+  patch: |-
+    - op: add
+      path: /spec/template/spec/containers/0/args
+      value:
+        - '--reload-on-create=true'
+        - '--reload-on-delete=true'
+        - '--reload-strategy=annotations'