diff --git a/charts/k8s-image-availability-exporter/templates/deployment.yaml b/charts/k8s-image-availability-exporter/templates/deployment.yaml
index d394411..140426f 100644
--- a/charts/k8s-image-availability-exporter/templates/deployment.yaml
+++ b/charts/k8s-image-availability-exporter/templates/deployment.yaml
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@ apiVersion: apps/v1
 kind: Deployment
 metadata:
   name: {{ template "k8s-image-availability-exporter.fullname" . }}
+  {{- with .Values.annotations }}
+  annotations: {{- toYaml . | nindent 4 }}
+  {{- end }}
   labels:
     helm.sh/chart: "{{ .Chart.Name }}-{{ .Chart.Version | replace "+" "_" }}"
     app.kubernetes.io/name: "{{ template "k8s-image-availability-exporter.fullname" . }}"
@@ -21,6 +24,9 @@ spec:
       app: {{ template "k8s-image-availability-exporter.fullname" . }}
   template:
     metadata:
+      {{- with .Values.podAnnotations }}
+      annotations: {{- toYaml . | nindent 8 }}
+      {{- end }}
       labels:
         app: {{ template "k8s-image-availability-exporter.fullname" . }}
     spec:
diff --git a/charts/k8s-image-availability-exporter/values.yaml b/charts/k8s-image-availability-exporter/values.yaml
index ff660b7..070f9dc 100644
--- a/charts/k8s-image-availability-exporter/values.yaml
+++ b/charts/k8s-image-availability-exporter/values.yaml
@@ -13,6 +13,12 @@ k8sImageAvailabilityExporter:
   # -- Setting this to false will prevent k8s-iae having unconstrained cluster-wide secret access
   useSecretsForPrivateRepositories: true
 
+# -- additional annotations for deployment
+annotations: {}
+
+# -- additional annotations added to the pod
+podAnnotations: {}
+
 # -- Number of replicas (pods) to launch.
 replicaCount: 1