diff --git a/eventrouter/internal/router/handler.go b/eventrouter/internal/router/handler.go
index 3d2ba75..73e2216 100644
--- a/eventrouter/internal/router/handler.go
+++ b/eventrouter/internal/router/handler.go
@@ -71,9 +71,11 @@ func (c *pusher) Handle(evt corev1.Event) {
 		return
 	}
 
-	out := minifyEvent(evt)
+	if len(evt.ManagedFields) == 0 {
+		evt.ManagedFields = nil
+	}
 
-	labels := out.GetLabels()
+	labels := evt.GetLabels()
 	if labels == nil {
 		labels = map[string]string{
 			keyCompositionID: compositionId,
@@ -81,9 +83,9 @@ func (c *pusher) Handle(evt corev1.Event) {
 	} else {
 		labels[keyCompositionID] = compositionId
 	}
-	out.SetLabels(labels)
+	evt.SetLabels(labels)
 
-	c.notifyAll(all, out)
+	c.notifyAll(all, evt)
 }
 
 func (c *pusher) notifyAll(all map[string]v1alpha1.RegistrationSpec, evt corev1.Event) {
diff --git a/eventrouter/manifests/deployment.yaml b/eventrouter/manifests/deployment.yaml
index 982d8b2..8bcd9d2 100644
--- a/eventrouter/manifests/deployment.yaml
+++ b/eventrouter/manifests/deployment.yaml
@@ -23,10 +23,9 @@ spec:
         image: kind.local/eventrouter:latest
         imagePullPolicy: Never
         args:
-          - --namespace=demo-system
           - --insecure=true
           - --debug=true
-          - --v=4
+          - --v=6
         securityContext:
           allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
           readOnlyRootFilesystem: false
diff --git a/eventrouter/scripts/build.sh b/eventrouter/scripts/build.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..513fa3c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/eventrouter/scripts/build.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+KO_DOCKER_REPO=kind.local ko build --base-import-paths .
+
+printf '\n\nList of current docker images loaded in KinD:\n'
+
+kubectl get nodes kind-control-plane -o json \
+    | jq -r '.status.images[] | " - " + .names[-1]'
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/eventrouter/scripts/install.sh b/eventrouter/scripts/install.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..1abd221
--- /dev/null
+++ b/eventrouter/scripts/install.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Install Registration CRD
+kubectl apply -f manifests/eventrouter.krateo.io_registrations.yaml
+
+# Deploy EventRouter
+kubectl apply -f manifests/ns.yaml
+kubectl apply -f manifests/sa.yaml
+kubectl apply -f manifests/rbac.yaml
+kubectl apply -f manifests/rbac-bind.yaml
+kubectl apply -f manifests/deployment.yaml
diff --git a/eventrouter/scripts/kind-up.sh b/eventrouter/scripts/kind-up.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..4b35aa0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/eventrouter/scripts/kind-up.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+kind get kubeconfig >/dev/null 2>&1 || kind create cluster
diff --git a/eventrouter/testdata/registration.sample.yaml b/eventrouter/testdata/registration.sample.yaml
index ba38d1a..f29e748 100644
--- a/eventrouter/testdata/registration.sample.yaml
+++ b/eventrouter/testdata/registration.sample.yaml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 apiVersion: eventrouter.krateo.io/v1alpha1
 kind: Registration
 metadata:
-  name: eventrouter-echo
+  name: httpecho-registration
 spec:
-  serviceName: EventRouter Echo
-  endpoint: http://127.0.0.1:9092/handle
\ No newline at end of file
+  serviceName: HTTP Echo
+  endpoint: http://127.0.0.1:9090/handle
\ No newline at end of file