diff --git a/stable/heapster/templates/deployment.yaml b/stable/heapster/templates/deployment.yaml
index fd76443aa9..359ac34842 100644
--- a/stable/heapster/templates/deployment.yaml
+++ b/stable/heapster/templates/deployment.yaml
@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ spec:
           timeoutSeconds: 5
         resources:
 {{ toYaml .Values.resources | indent 12 }}
+      {{- if .Values.env }}
+        env:
+{{ toYaml .Values.env | indent 10 }}
+      {{- end }}
         command:
           {{- range .Values.command }}
           - {{ . | quote }}
diff --git a/stable/heapster/values.yaml b/stable/heapster/values.yaml
index 83bae6b5cf..4bc15b7402 100644
--- a/stable/heapster/values.yaml
+++ b/stable/heapster/values.yaml
@@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ command:
 - "/heapster"
 - "--source=kubernetes.summary_api:''"
 
+## heapster env variables
+env: []
+
 ## Resizer scales resources linearly with the number of nodes in the cluster
 ## Resizer is enabled by default
 ##