diff --git a/install/templateservicebroker/apiserver-config.yaml b/install/templateservicebroker/apiserver-config.yaml
index 9c8294183985..e4048d1da426 100644
--- a/install/templateservicebroker/apiserver-config.yaml
+++ b/install/templateservicebroker/apiserver-config.yaml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 kind: TemplateServiceBrokerConfig
 apiVersion: config.templateservicebroker.openshift.io/v1
 templateNamespaces:
-- openshift
\ No newline at end of file
+- openshift
diff --git a/install/templateservicebroker/apiserver-template.yaml b/install/templateservicebroker/apiserver-template.yaml
index 22c4f391c6d1..035e4734b996 100644
--- a/install/templateservicebroker/apiserver-template.yaml
+++ b/install/templateservicebroker/apiserver-template.yaml
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ parameters:
    apiVersion: config.templateservicebroker.openshift.io/v1
    templateNamespaces:
    - openshift
+- name: NODE_SELECTOR
+  value: "{}"
 objects:
 
 # to create the tsb server
@@ -59,6 +61,7 @@ objects:
               path: /healthz
               port: 8443
               scheme: HTTPS
+        nodeSelector: "${{NODE_SELECTOR}}"
         volumes:
         - name: serving-cert
           secret:
@@ -101,7 +104,7 @@ objects:
       targetPort: 8443
 
 # This service account will be granted permission to call the TSB.
-# The token for this SA will be provided to the service catalog for 
+# The token for this SA will be provided to the service catalog for
 # use when calling the TSB.
 - apiVersion: v1
   kind: ServiceAccount
diff --git a/test/extended/templates/helpers.go b/test/extended/templates/helpers.go
index 3bfac909fa00..8564a79e86a1 100644
--- a/test/extended/templates/helpers.go
+++ b/test/extended/templates/helpers.go
@@ -120,6 +120,16 @@ func setUser(cli *exutil.CLI, user *userapi.User) {
 	}
 }
 
+func setEmptyNodeSelector(tsbOC *exutil.CLI) {
+	namespace, err := tsbOC.AdminKubeClient().CoreV1().Namespaces().Get(tsbOC.Namespace(), metav1.GetOptions{})
+	o.Expect(err).NotTo(o.HaveOccurred())
+
+	namespace.Annotations["openshift.io/node-selector"] = ""
+
+	_, err = tsbOC.AdminKubeClient().CoreV1().Namespaces().Update(namespace)
+	o.Expect(err).NotTo(o.HaveOccurred())
+}
+
 // EnsureTSB makes sure a TSB is present where expected and returns a client to
 // speak to it and a close method which provides the proxy.  The caller must
 // call the close method, usually done in AfterEach
@@ -137,6 +147,13 @@ func EnsureTSB(tsbOC *exutil.CLI) (osbclient.Client, func() error) {
 		}
 	}
 
+	// Set an empty node selector on our namespace.  For now this ensures we
+	// don't trigger a spinning state (see bz1494709) with the DaemonSet if
+	// projectConfig.defaultNodeSelector is set in the master config and some
+	// nodes don't match the nodeSelector.  The spinning state wastes CPU and
+	// fills the node logs, but otherwise isn't particularly harmful.
+	setEmptyNodeSelector(tsbOC)
+
 	configPath := exutil.FixturePath("..", "..", "install", "templateservicebroker", "apiserver-template.yaml")
 
 	err := tsbOC.AsAdmin().Run("new-app").Args(configPath, "-p", "LOGLEVEL=4", "-p", "NAMESPACE="+tsbOC.Namespace()).Execute()