diff --git a/theodolite-quarkus/src/main/kotlin/theodolite/execution/TheodoliteExecutor.kt b/theodolite-quarkus/src/main/kotlin/theodolite/execution/TheodoliteExecutor.kt
index c53c758c5c26b17c4b01cbfad72f2e9bbe1db499..86f3baf840be4891b295c36e750403c158c57928 100644
--- a/theodolite-quarkus/src/main/kotlin/theodolite/execution/TheodoliteExecutor.kt
+++ b/theodolite-quarkus/src/main/kotlin/theodolite/execution/TheodoliteExecutor.kt
@@ -17,9 +17,12 @@ class TheodoliteExecutor() {
                 kafkaPartition = 40,
                 kafkaReplication = 3,
                 kafkaTopics = listOf("input", "output"),
-                ucDeploymentPath = "",
-                ucServicePath = "",
-                wgDeploymentPath = ""
+                // TODO("handle path in a more nice way (not absolut)")
+                ucDeploymentPath = "src/main/resources/yaml/aggregation-deployment.yaml",
+                ucServicePath = "src/main/resources/yaml/aggregation-service.yaml",
+                wgDeploymentPath = "src/main/resources/yaml/workloadGenerator.yaml",
+                ucImageURL = "ghcr.io/cau-se/theodolite-uc1-kstreams-app:latest",
+                wgImageURL = "ghcr.io/cau-se/theodolite-uc1-kstreams-workload-generator:latest"
         ))
         val results: Results = Results()
         val executionDuration = Duration.ofSeconds(60*5 )
diff --git a/theodolite-quarkus/src/main/kotlin/theodolite/k8s/UC1Benchmark.kt b/theodolite-quarkus/src/main/kotlin/theodolite/k8s/UC1Benchmark.kt
index ec83c47e4197750a022dc9570b15f4cd6e8e94e6..128fefd2a27010f444dfaf01399d3dadadfa3e51 100644
--- a/theodolite-quarkus/src/main/kotlin/theodolite/k8s/UC1Benchmark.kt
+++ b/theodolite-quarkus/src/main/kotlin/theodolite/k8s/UC1Benchmark.kt
@@ -29,9 +29,6 @@ class UC1Benchmark(config: UC1BenchmarkConfig) : Benchmark(config) {
         this.serviceManager = ServiceManager(this.kubernetesClient)
         ucDeployment = this.yamlLoader.loadDeployment(this.config.ucDeploymentPath)
         ucService = this.yamlLoader.loadService(this.config.ucServicePath)
-
-
-
     }
 
     override fun clearClusterEnvironment() {
@@ -48,11 +45,14 @@ class UC1Benchmark(config: UC1BenchmarkConfig) : Benchmark(config) {
     }
 
     override fun startSUT(resources: Resource) {
+        this.deploymentManager.setImageName(ucDeployment, "uc-application", this.config.ucImageURL)
+
         // set environment variables
         val environmentVariables: MutableMap<String, String> = mutableMapOf()
         environmentVariables.put("KAFKA_BOOTSTRAP_SERVER", this.config.kafkaIPConnectionString)
         environmentVariables.put("SCHEMA_REGISTRY_URL", this.config.schemaRegistryConnectionString)
 
+
         // setup deployment
         this.deploymentManager.setReplica(ucDeployment, resources.get())
         this.deploymentManager.setWorkloadEnv(ucDeployment,"uc-application", environmentVariables)
@@ -63,12 +63,15 @@ class UC1Benchmark(config: UC1BenchmarkConfig) : Benchmark(config) {
     }
 
     override fun startWorkloadGenerator(load: LoadDimension) {
+        this.deploymentManager.setImageName(ucDeployment, "workload-generator", this.config.wgImageURL)
         val wgDeployment = this.yamlLoader.loadDeployment(this.config.wgDeploymentPath)
-        val environmentVariables: MutableMap<String, String> = mutableMapOf()
-        environmentVariables.put("NUM_SENSORS", load.get().toString())
+
         // TODO ("calculate number of required instances")
         val requiredInstances: Int = 1
+        val environmentVariables: MutableMap<String, String> = mutableMapOf()
+        environmentVariables.put("NUM_SENSORS", load.get().toString())
         environmentVariables.put("NUM_INSTANCES", requiredInstances.toString())
+
         this.deploymentManager.setWorkloadEnv(wgDeployment, "workload-generator", environmentVariables)
     }
 
@@ -81,6 +84,8 @@ class UC1Benchmark(config: UC1BenchmarkConfig) : Benchmark(config) {
         val kafkaPartition: Int,
         val ucDeploymentPath: String,
         val ucServicePath: String,
-        val wgDeploymentPath: String
+        val wgDeploymentPath: String,
+        val ucImageURL: String,
+        val wgImageURL: String
         ) {}
 }
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diff --git a/theodolite-quarkus/YAML/aggregation-deployment.yaml b/theodolite-quarkus/src/main/resources/yaml/aggregation-deployment.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from theodolite-quarkus/YAML/aggregation-deployment.yaml
rename to theodolite-quarkus/src/main/resources/yaml/aggregation-deployment.yaml
diff --git a/theodolite-quarkus/YAML/aggregation-service.yaml b/theodolite-quarkus/src/main/resources/yaml/aggregation-service.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from theodolite-quarkus/YAML/aggregation-service.yaml
rename to theodolite-quarkus/src/main/resources/yaml/aggregation-service.yaml
diff --git a/theodolite-quarkus/YAML/jmx-configmap.yaml b/theodolite-quarkus/src/main/resources/yaml/jmx-configmap.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from theodolite-quarkus/YAML/jmx-configmap.yaml
rename to theodolite-quarkus/src/main/resources/yaml/jmx-configmap.yaml
diff --git a/theodolite-quarkus/YAML/service-monitor.yaml b/theodolite-quarkus/src/main/resources/yaml/service-monitor.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from theodolite-quarkus/YAML/service-monitor.yaml
rename to theodolite-quarkus/src/main/resources/yaml/service-monitor.yaml
diff --git a/theodolite-quarkus/YAML/theodolite.yaml b/theodolite-quarkus/src/main/resources/yaml/theodolite.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from theodolite-quarkus/YAML/theodolite.yaml
rename to theodolite-quarkus/src/main/resources/yaml/theodolite.yaml
diff --git a/theodolite-quarkus/YAML/workloadGenerator.yaml b/theodolite-quarkus/src/main/resources/yaml/workloadGenerator.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from theodolite-quarkus/YAML/workloadGenerator.yaml
rename to theodolite-quarkus/src/main/resources/yaml/workloadGenerator.yaml