diff --git a/examples/ci-cd-workflow.yaml b/examples/ci-cd-workflow.yaml
index 7ba46257ea42..aae30163d905 100644
--- a/examples/ci-cd-workflow.yaml
+++ b/examples/ci-cd-workflow.yaml
@@ -71,6 +71,8 @@
 #
 #   - Network Policy Traffic Configuration: Create a `NetworkPolicy` to allow traffic from the Argo namespace to the ArgoCD namespace for `argocd-server`.
 
+apiVersion: argoproj.io/v1alpha1
+kind: WorkflowTemplate
 metadata:
   name: ci-cd-workflow
   namespace: argo