diff --git a/charts/fluent-bit/Chart.yaml b/charts/fluent-bit/Chart.yaml
index 4e6aee87..3b3ee7a4 100644
--- a/charts/fluent-bit/Chart.yaml
+++ b/charts/fluent-bit/Chart.yaml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ keywords:
   - logging
   - fluent-bit
   - fluentd
-version: 0.44.0
+version: 0.45.0
 appVersion: 2.2.2
 icon: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cncf/artwork/master/projects/fluentd/fluentbit/icon/fluentbit-icon-color.svg
 home: https://fluentbit.io/
@@ -22,5 +22,7 @@ maintainers:
     email: steve.hipwell@gmail.com
 annotations:
   artifacthub.io/changes: |
+    - kind: added
+      description: "Added support for ingress.annotations tpl rendering"
     - kind: changed
-      description: "Added local internalTrafficPolicy for daemonsets"
+      description: "Changed default image pull policy to IfNotPresent in values.yaml"
diff --git a/charts/fluent-bit/templates/ingress.yaml b/charts/fluent-bit/templates/ingress.yaml
index 6c01be53..a6ce859b 100644
--- a/charts/fluent-bit/templates/ingress.yaml
+++ b/charts/fluent-bit/templates/ingress.yaml
@@ -14,7 +14,9 @@ metadata:
     {{- include "fluent-bit.labels" . | nindent 4 }}
   {{- with .Values.ingress.annotations }}
   annotations:
-    {{- toYaml . | nindent 4 }}
+  {{- range $key, $value := . }}
+    {{ printf "%s: %s" $key ((tpl $value $) | quote) }}
+  {{- end }}
   {{- end }}
 spec:
   {{- if and $ingressSupportsIngressClassName .Values.ingress.ingressClassName }}
diff --git a/charts/fluent-bit/values.yaml b/charts/fluent-bit/values.yaml
index c9ae9843..1a60fe7b 100644
--- a/charts/fluent-bit/values.yaml
+++ b/charts/fluent-bit/values.yaml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ image:
   # Set to "-" to not use the default value
   tag:
   digest:
-  pullPolicy: Always
+  pullPolicy: IfNotPresent
 
 testFramework:
   enabled: true