diff --git a/argo-cd-apps/base/member/infra-deployments/konflux-kite/konflux-kite.yaml b/argo-cd-apps/base/member/infra-deployments/konflux-kite/konflux-kite.yaml
index d53caf96737..63a1e29f0f3 100644
--- a/argo-cd-apps/base/member/infra-deployments/konflux-kite/konflux-kite.yaml
+++ b/argo-cd-apps/base/member/infra-deployments/konflux-kite/konflux-kite.yaml
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ spec:
                 # Staging clusters
                 - nameNormalized: stone-stg-rh01
                   values.clusterDir: stone-stg-rh01
+                - nameNormalized: stone-stage-p01
+                  values.clusterDir: stone-stage-p01
   template:
     metadata:
       name: konflux-kite-{{nameNormalized}}
diff --git a/argo-cd-apps/overlays/staging-downstream/delete-applications.yaml b/argo-cd-apps/overlays/staging-downstream/delete-applications.yaml
index 95c9b33ab2b..78631c2bad4 100644
--- a/argo-cd-apps/overlays/staging-downstream/delete-applications.yaml
+++ b/argo-cd-apps/overlays/staging-downstream/delete-applications.yaml
@@ -11,9 +11,3 @@ metadata:
   name: quality-dashboard
 $patch: delete
 ---
-# At this time we're starting with external staging
-apiVersion: argoproj.io/v1alpha1
-kind: ApplicationSet
-metadata:
-  name: konflux-kite
-$patch: delete
diff --git a/components/konflux-kite/staging/stone-stage-p01/database-secret-path.yaml b/components/konflux-kite/staging/stone-stage-p01/database-secret-path.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4a112ca15f8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/components/konflux-kite/staging/stone-stage-p01/database-secret-path.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+---
+- op: add
+  path: /spec/dataFrom/0/extract/key
+  value: integrations-output/external-resources/appsres11ue1/stonesoup-infra-stage/issues-dashboard-staging-rds
diff --git a/components/konflux-kite/staging/stone-stage-p01/kustomization.yaml b/components/konflux-kite/staging/stone-stage-p01/kustomization.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f8896ca1df4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/components/konflux-kite/staging/stone-stage-p01/kustomization.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+apiVersion: kustomize.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
+kind: Kustomization
+resources:
+  - ../../base
+  - ../../base/external-secrets
+
+patches:
+  - path: database-secret-path.yaml
+    target:
+      name: database-secret
+      group: external-secrets.io
+      version: v1beta1
+      kind: ExternalSecret
+  # Delete the base secret since we're using External Secret
+  - patch: |-
+      $patch: delete
+      apiVersion: v1
+      kind: Secret
+      metadata:
+        name: kite-database-credentials
+        namespace: konflux-kite
+
+# Only update some parts of the generated development configmap
+configMapGenerator:
+  - name: kite-config
+    namespace: konflux-kite
+    literals:
+      - KITE_PROJECT_ENV=staging
+      - KITE_DB_SSL_MODE=require
+      - KITE_LOG_LEVEL=info
+      - KITE_LOG_FORMAT=json
+      - KITE_FEATURE_NAMESPACE_CHECKING=true
+    behavior: merge
diff --git a/components/konflux-kite/staging/stone-stg-rh01/kustomization.yaml b/components/konflux-kite/staging/stone-stg-rh01/kustomization.yaml
index bff25e740e0..f8896ca1df4 100644
--- a/components/konflux-kite/staging/stone-stg-rh01/kustomization.yaml
+++ b/components/konflux-kite/staging/stone-stg-rh01/kustomization.yaml
@@ -29,5 +29,5 @@ configMapGenerator:
       - KITE_DB_SSL_MODE=require
       - KITE_LOG_LEVEL=info
       - KITE_LOG_FORMAT=json
-      - KITE_FEATURE_NAMESPACE_CHECKING=false
+      - KITE_FEATURE_NAMESPACE_CHECKING=true
     behavior: merge