diff --git a/deploy/charts/litellm-helm/Chart.yaml b/deploy/charts/litellm-helm/Chart.yaml
index 4d856fdc0f..5de591fd73 100644
--- a/deploy/charts/litellm-helm/Chart.yaml
+++ b/deploy/charts/litellm-helm/Chart.yaml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ type: application
 # This is the chart version. This version number should be incremented each time you make changes
 # to the chart and its templates, including the app version.
 # Versions are expected to follow Semantic Versioning (https://semver.org/)
-version: 0.4.2
+version: 0.4.3
 
 # This is the version number of the application being deployed. This version number should be
 # incremented each time you make changes to the application. Versions are not expected to
diff --git a/deploy/charts/litellm-helm/templates/deployment.yaml b/deploy/charts/litellm-helm/templates/deployment.yaml
index 52f761ed15..5b9488c19b 100644
--- a/deploy/charts/litellm-helm/templates/deployment.yaml
+++ b/deploy/charts/litellm-helm/templates/deployment.yaml
@@ -97,6 +97,9 @@ spec:
               value: {{ $val | quote }}
             {{- end }}
             {{- end }}
+            {{- with .Values.extraEnvVars }}
+              {{- toYaml . | nindent 12 }}
+            {{- end }}
           envFrom:
           {{- range .Values.environmentSecrets }}
             - secretRef:
diff --git a/deploy/charts/litellm-helm/tests/deployment_tests.yaml b/deploy/charts/litellm-helm/tests/deployment_tests.yaml
index 0e4b8e0b1f..b71f91377f 100644
--- a/deploy/charts/litellm-helm/tests/deployment_tests.yaml
+++ b/deploy/charts/litellm-helm/tests/deployment_tests.yaml
@@ -80,3 +80,38 @@ tests:
               secretKeyRef:
                 name: my-secret
                 key: my-key
+  - it: should work with extraEnvVars
+    template: deployment.yaml
+    set:
+      extraEnvVars:
+        - name: EXTRA_ENV_VAR
+          valueFrom:
+            fieldRef:
+              fieldPath: metadata.labels['env']
+    asserts:
+      - contains:
+          path: spec.template.spec.containers[0].env
+          content:
+            name: EXTRA_ENV_VAR
+            valueFrom:
+              fieldRef:
+                fieldPath: metadata.labels['env']
+  - it: should work with both extraEnvVars and envVars
+    template: deployment.yaml
+    set:
+      envVars:
+        ENV_VAR: ENV_VAR_VALUE
+      extraEnvVars:
+        - name: EXTRA_ENV_VAR
+          value: EXTRA_ENV_VAR_VALUE
+    asserts:
+      - contains:
+          path: spec.template.spec.containers[0].env
+          content:
+            name: ENV_VAR
+            value: ENV_VAR_VALUE
+      - contains:
+          path: spec.template.spec.containers[0].env
+          content:
+            name: EXTRA_ENV_VAR
+            value: EXTRA_ENV_VAR_VALUE
diff --git a/deploy/charts/litellm-helm/values.yaml b/deploy/charts/litellm-helm/values.yaml
index 70f6c2ef23..0440e28eed 100644
--- a/deploy/charts/litellm-helm/values.yaml
+++ b/deploy/charts/litellm-helm/values.yaml
@@ -195,9 +195,15 @@ migrationJob:
   annotations: {}
   ttlSecondsAfterFinished: 120
 
-# Additional environment variables to be added to the deployment
+# Additional environment variables to be added to the deployment as a map of key-value pairs
 envVars: {
     # USE_DDTRACE: "true"
 }
 
+# Additional environment variables to be added to the deployment as a list of k8s env vars
+extraEnvVars: {
+    # - name: EXTRA_ENV_VAR
+    #   value: EXTRA_ENV_VAR_VALUE
+}
+