diff --git a/charts/pipelines/Chart.yaml b/charts/pipelines/Chart.yaml
index 016b1c9..7a90f37 100644
--- a/charts/pipelines/Chart.yaml
+++ b/charts/pipelines/Chart.yaml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 apiVersion: v2
 name: pipelines
-version: 0.4.0
+version: 0.5.0
 appVersion: "alpha"
 
 home: https://github.com/open-webui/pipelines
diff --git a/charts/pipelines/README.md b/charts/pipelines/README.md
index 2442639..0e50dda 100644
--- a/charts/pipelines/README.md
+++ b/charts/pipelines/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # pipelines
 
-![Version: 0.2.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/Version-0.2.0-informational?style=flat-square) ![AppVersion: alpha](https://img.shields.io/badge/AppVersion-alpha-informational?style=flat-square)
+![Version: 0.5.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/Version-0.5.0-informational?style=flat-square) ![AppVersion: alpha](https://img.shields.io/badge/AppVersion-alpha-informational?style=flat-square)
 
 Pipelines: UI-Agnostic OpenAI API Plugin Framework
 
@@ -35,7 +35,9 @@ helm upgrade --install open-webui open-webui/pipelines
 | clusterDomain | string | `"cluster.local"` | Value of cluster domain |
 | extraEnvVars | list | `[{"name":"PIPELINES_URLS","value":"https://github.com/open-webui/pipelines/blob/main/examples/filters/detoxify_filter_pipeline.py"}]` | Additional environments variables on the output Deployment definition. These are used to pull initial Pipeline files, and help configure Pipelines with required values (e.g. Langfuse API keys) |
 | extraEnvVars[0] | object | `{"name":"PIPELINES_URLS","value":"https://github.com/open-webui/pipelines/blob/main/examples/filters/detoxify_filter_pipeline.py"}` | Example pipeline to pull and load on deployment startup, see current pipelines here: https://github.com/open-webui/pipelines/blob/main/examples |
+| extraInitContainers | list | `[]` | Additional init containers to add to the deployment ref: <https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/pods/init-containers/> |
 | extraResources | list | `[]` | Extra resources to deploy with Open WebUI Pipelines |
+| hostAliases | list | `[]` | HostAliases to be added to hosts-file of each container |
 | image.pullPolicy | string | `"Always"` |  |
 | image.repository | string | `"ghcr.io/open-webui/pipelines"` |  |
 | image.tag | string | `"main"` |  |
@@ -71,7 +73,6 @@ helm upgrade --install open-webui open-webui/pipelines
 | serviceAccount.enable | bool | `true` |  |
 | strategy | object | `{}` | Strategy for updating the deployment |
 | tolerations | list | `[]` | Tolerations for pod assignment |
-| hostAliases | list | `[]` | HostAliases to be added to hosts-file of each container |
 | volumeMounts | list | `[]` | Configure container volume mounts ref: <https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-volume-storage/> |
 | volumes | list | `[]` | Configure pod volumes ref: <https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-volume-storage/> |
 
diff --git a/charts/pipelines/templates/deployment.yaml b/charts/pipelines/templates/deployment.yaml
index 3855929..4bb2d78 100644
--- a/charts/pipelines/templates/deployment.yaml
+++ b/charts/pipelines/templates/deployment.yaml
@@ -34,6 +34,10 @@ spec:
       imagePullSecrets:
         {{- toYaml . | nindent 8 }}
       {{- end }}
+      {{- with .Values.extraInitContainers }}
+      initContainers:
+        {{- toYaml . | nindent 8 }}
+      {{- end }}
       enableServiceLinks: false
       automountServiceAccountToken: {{ .Values.serviceAccount.automountServiceAccountToken | default false }}
       {{- if .Values.serviceAccount.enable }}
diff --git a/charts/pipelines/values.yaml b/charts/pipelines/values.yaml
index 2bd6dde..5ee4459 100644
--- a/charts/pipelines/values.yaml
+++ b/charts/pipelines/values.yaml
@@ -99,6 +99,16 @@ volumeMounts: []
   # - name: ""
   #   mountPath: ""
 
+# -- Additional init containers to add to the deployment
+# ref: <https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/pods/init-containers/>
+extraInitContainers: []
+# - name: custom-init
+#   image: busybox:latest
+#   command: ['sh', '-c', 'echo "Custom init container running"']
+#   volumeMounts:
+#   - name: data
+#     mountPath: /data
+
 # -- Configure pod volumes
 # ref: <https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-volume-storage/>
 volumes: []