diff --git a/deploy/charts/x509-certificate-exporter/README.md b/deploy/charts/x509-certificate-exporter/README.md
index 2cd3757..8cc9802 100644
--- a/deploy/charts/x509-certificate-exporter/README.md
+++ b/deploy/charts/x509-certificate-exporter/README.md
@@ -390,6 +390,7 @@ hostPathsExporter:
 | secretsExporter.excludeLabels | list | `[]` | Exclude TLS Secrets having these labels. Items can be keys such as `my-label` or also require a value with syntax `my-label=my-value`. |
 | secretsExporter.cache.enabled | bool | `true` | Enable caching of Kubernetes objects to prevent scraping timeouts |
 | secretsExporter.cache.maxDuration | int | `300` | Maximum time an object can stay in cache unrefreshed (seconds) - it will be at least half of that |
+| secretsExporter.env | list | `[]` | Additional environment variables for container |
 | hostPathsExporter.debugMode | bool | `false` | Should debug messages be produced by hostPath exporters (default for all hostPathsExporter.daemonSets) |
 | hostPathsExporter.restartPolicy | string | `"Always"` | restartPolicy for Pods of hostPath exporters (default for all hostPathsExporter.daemonSets) |
 | hostPathsExporter.updateStrategy | object | `{}` | updateStrategy for DaemonSet of hostPath exporters (default for all hostPathsExporter.daemonSets) |
@@ -408,6 +409,7 @@ hostPathsExporter:
 | hostPathsExporter.watchDirectories | list | `[]` | [SEE README] List of directory paths of the host to scan for PEM encoded certificate files to be watched and exported as metrics (one level deep) |
 | hostPathsExporter.watchFiles | list | `[]` | [SEE README] List of file paths of the host for PEM encoded certificates to be watched and exported as metrics (one level deep) |
 | hostPathsExporter.watchKubeconfFiles | list | `[]` | [SEE README] List of Kubeconf file paths of the host to scan for embedded certificates to export metrics about |
+| hostPathsExporter.env | list | `[]` | Additional environment variables for container |
 | hostPathsExporter.daemonSets | object | `{}` | [SEE README] Map to define one or many DaemonSets running hostPath exporters. Key is used as a name ; value is a map to override all default settings set by `hostPathsExporter.*`. |
 | podListenPort | int | `9793` | TCP port to expose Pods on (whether kube-rbac-proxy is enabled or not) |
 | hostNetwork | bool | `false` | Enable hostNetwork mode. Useful when Prometheus is deployed outside of the Kubernetes cluster |
diff --git a/deploy/charts/x509-certificate-exporter/templates/daemonset.yaml b/deploy/charts/x509-certificate-exporter/templates/daemonset.yaml
index 100e317..0385770 100644
--- a/deploy/charts/x509-certificate-exporter/templates/daemonset.yaml
+++ b/deploy/charts/x509-certificate-exporter/templates/daemonset.yaml
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 {{- range $dsName, $dsDef := . }}
 {{- $extraVolumes := concat ( default $.Values.hostPathsExporter.extraVolumes $dsDef.extraVolumes ) $.Values.extraVolumes }}
 {{- $extraVolumeMounts := concat ( default $.Values.hostPathsExporter.extraVolumeMounts $dsDef.extraVolumeMounts ) $.Values.extraVolumeMounts }}
+{{- $extraEnvs := concat (default (list) $.Values.hostPathsExporter.env) (default (list) $dsDef.env) }}
 ---
 apiVersion: apps/v1
 kind: DaemonSet
@@ -70,6 +71,10 @@ spec:
         {{- end }}
         image: {{ include "x509-certificate-exporter.image" $ }}
         imagePullPolicy: {{ $.Values.image.pullPolicy }}
+        {{- if $extraEnvs }}
+        env:
+        {{- toYaml $extraEnvs | trim | nindent 8 }}
+        {{- end }}
         args:
         {{- with default $.Values.hostPathsExporter.debugMode $dsDef.debugMode }}
         - --debug
diff --git a/deploy/charts/x509-certificate-exporter/templates/deployment.yaml b/deploy/charts/x509-certificate-exporter/templates/deployment.yaml
index 973b4f8..7c27897 100644
--- a/deploy/charts/x509-certificate-exporter/templates/deployment.yaml
+++ b/deploy/charts/x509-certificate-exporter/templates/deployment.yaml
@@ -90,6 +90,10 @@ spec:
           readOnly: true
         {{- end }}
         {{- end }}
+        {{- if .Values.secretsExporter.env }}
+        env:
+        {{- toYaml .Values.secretsExporter.env | trim | nindent 8 }}
+        {{- end }}
         args:
         {{- if .Values.secretsExporter.debugMode }}
         - --debug
diff --git a/deploy/charts/x509-certificate-exporter/values.yaml b/deploy/charts/x509-certificate-exporter/values.yaml
index 3bd6074..7501efe 100644
--- a/deploy/charts/x509-certificate-exporter/values.yaml
+++ b/deploy/charts/x509-certificate-exporter/values.yaml
@@ -127,6 +127,11 @@ secretsExporter:
     # -- Maximum time an object can stay in cache unrefreshed (seconds) - it will be at least half of that
     maxDuration: 300
 
+  # -- Additional environment variables for container
+  env: []
+  # - name: GOMAXPROCS
+  #   value: "1"
+
 hostPathsExporter:
   # -- Should debug messages be produced by hostPath exporters (default for all hostPathsExporter.daemonSets)
   debugMode: false
@@ -180,6 +185,11 @@ hostPathsExporter:
   # -- [SEE README] List of Kubeconf file paths of the host to scan for embedded certificates to export metrics about
   watchKubeconfFiles: []
 
+  # -- Additional environment variables for container
+  env: []
+  # - name: GOMAXPROCS
+  #   value: "1"
+
   # -- [SEE README] Map to define one or many DaemonSets running hostPath exporters. Key is used as a name ; value is a map to override all default settings set by `hostPathsExporter.*`.
   daemonSets: {}