diff --git a/kubernetes/dcaegen2/charts/dcae-cloudify-manager/values.yaml b/kubernetes/dcaegen2/charts/dcae-cloudify-manager/values.yaml
index 50c5653..08e01d6 100644
--- a/kubernetes/dcaegen2/charts/dcae-cloudify-manager/values.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes/dcaegen2/charts/dcae-cloudify-manager/values.yaml
@@ -52,7 +52,8 @@
   periodSeconds: 10
   # necessary to disable liveness probe when setting breakpoints
   # in debugger so K8s doesn't restart unresponsive container
-  enabled: true
+  # liveness not desirable for Cloudify Manager container
+  enabled: false
 
 readiness:
   initialDelaySeconds: 10