diff --git a/incubator/patroni/Chart.yaml b/incubator/patroni/Chart.yaml
index 6dce71d657..8945260ea7 100644
--- a/incubator/patroni/Chart.yaml
+++ b/incubator/patroni/Chart.yaml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 name: patroni
 description: 'Highly available elephant herd: HA PostgreSQL cluster.'
-version: 0.3.2
-appVersion: 1.0-p5
+version: 0.4.0
+appVersion: 1.2-p17
 home: https://github.com/zalando/patroni
 sources:
 - https://github.com/zalando/patroni
diff --git a/incubator/patroni/README.md b/incubator/patroni/README.md
index 00d6eb31fc..e1d7628d88 100644
--- a/incubator/patroni/README.md
+++ b/incubator/patroni/README.md
@@ -67,6 +67,14 @@ The following tables lists the configurable parameters of the patroni chart and
 | `Credentials.Standby`   | password for the replication user   | `pinacolada`                                        |
 | `Etcd.Host`             | host name of etcd cluster           | not used (Etcd.Discovery is used instead)            |
 | `Etcd.Discovery`        | domain name of etcd cluster         | `<release-name>-etcd.<namespace>.svc.cluster.local` |
+| `WalE.Enable`           | use of wal-e tool for base backup/restore | `false` |
+| `WalE.Schedule_Cron_Job` | schedule of wal-e backups          | `00 01 * * *` |
+| `WalE.Retain_Backups`   | number of backups to retain         | `2` |
+| `WalE.S3_Bucket:`       | Amazon S3 bucket used for wal-e backups | `` |
+| `WalE.GCS_Bucket`       | Google cloud plataform storage used for wal-e backups | `` |
+| `WalE.Kubernetes_Secret` | kubernetes secret for provider bucket | `` |
+| `WalE.Backup_Threshold_Megabytes` | maximum size of the WAL segments accumulated after the base backup to consider WAL-E restore instead of pg_basebackup | `1024` |
+| `WalE.Backup_Threshold_Percentage` | maximum ratio (in percents) of the accumulated WAL files to the base backup to consider WAL-E restore instead of pg_basebackup | `30` |
 | `persistentVolume.accessModes` | Persistent Volume access modes | `[ReadWriteOnce]` |
 | `persistentVolume.annotations` | Annotations for Persistent Volume Claim` | `{}` |
 | `persistentVolume.mountPath` | Persistent Volume mount root path | `/home/postgres/pgdata` |
diff --git a/incubator/patroni/requirements.lock b/incubator/patroni/requirements.lock
index a8433054b6..ec6d3542e4 100644
--- a/incubator/patroni/requirements.lock
+++ b/incubator/patroni/requirements.lock
@@ -1,10 +1,6 @@
 dependencies:
-- condition: ""
-  enabled: false
-  import-values: null
-  name: etcd
+- name: etcd
   repository: https://kubernetes-charts-incubator.storage.googleapis.com/
-  tags: null
-  version: 0.2.0
-digest: sha256:ed1ddf10ed804801e6b01afd2533dcf3ef4b0c6000513110ff78c1430934c2a1
-generated: 2017-06-08T12:51:07.354627568+02:00
+  version: 0.2.1
+digest: sha256:23b32faa2e44e5541a57aaf91729bcb3114d112c3f5d98e3e26837b4c4ffc40e
+generated: 2017-09-15T14:30:48.734386881+02:00
diff --git a/incubator/patroni/templates/statefulset-patroni.yaml b/incubator/patroni/templates/statefulset-patroni.yaml
index 1ca9ecfa13..c7716008af 100644
--- a/incubator/patroni/templates/statefulset-patroni.yaml
+++ b/incubator/patroni/templates/statefulset-patroni.yaml
@@ -53,8 +53,40 @@ spec:
         {{end}}
         - name: SCOPE
           value: {{ template "patroni.fullname" . }}
+        {{if .Values.WalE.Enable }}
+        - name: USE_WALE
+          value: {{ .Values.WalE.Enable | quote }}
+        {{if .Values.WalE.Schedule_Cron_Job }}
+        - name: BACKUP_SCHEDULE
+          value: {{ .Values.WalE.Schedule_Cron_Job | quote}}
+        {{end}}
+        {{if .Values.WalE.Retain_Backups }}
+        - name: BACKUP_NUM_TO_RETAIN
+          value: {{ .Values.WalE.Retain_Backups | quote}}
+        {{end}}
+        {{if .Values.WalE.S3_Bucket }}
+        - name: WAL_S3_BUCKET
+          value: {{ .Values.WalE.S3_Bucket | quote }}
+        {{else if .Values.WalE.GCS_Bucket }}
+        - name: WAL_GCS_BUCKET
+          value: {{ .Values.WalE.GCS_Bucket | quote }}
+        {{if .Values.WalE.Kubernetes_Secret }}
+        - name: GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS
+          value: "/etc/credentials/{{.Values.WalE.Kubernetes_Secret}}.json"
+        {{end}}
+        {{end}}
+        {{if .Values.WalE.Backup_Threshold_Megabytes }}
+        - name: WALE_BACKUP_THRESHOLD_MEGABYTES
+          value: {{ .Values.WalE.Backup_Threshold_Megabytes | quote }}
+        {{end}}
+        {{if .Values.WalE.Backup_Threshold_Percentage }}
+        - name: WALE_BACKUP_THRESHOLD_PERCENTAGE
+          value: {{ .Values.WalE.Backup_Threshold_Percentage | quote }}
+        {{end}}
+        {{else}}
         - name: USE_WALE
           value: ""
+        {{end}}
         - name: PGROOT
           value: "{{ .Values.persistentVolume.mountPath }}/pgroot"
         - name: POD_NAMESPACE
@@ -76,11 +108,24 @@ spec:
         - mountPath: /etc/patroni
           name: patroni-config
           readOnly: true
+        {{if .Values.WalE.Enable }}
+        {{if .Values.WalE.Kubernetes_Secret }}
+        - name: {{ .Values.WalE.Kubernetes_Secret }}
+          mountPath: /etc/credentials
+          readOnly: true
+        {{end}}
+        {{end}}
       volumes:
       - name: patroni-config
         secret:
           secretName: {{ template "patroni.fullname" . }}
-
+      {{if .Values.WalE.Enable }}
+      {{if .Values.WalE.Kubernetes_Secret }}
+      - name: {{ .Values.WalE.Kubernetes_Secret }}
+        secret:
+          secretName: {{ .Values.WalE.Kubernetes_Secret }}
+      {{end}}
+      {{end}}
   volumeClaimTemplates:
     - metadata:
         name: storage-volume
diff --git a/incubator/patroni/values.yaml b/incubator/patroni/values.yaml
index e246c4a1c8..9537c5ec8b 100644
--- a/incubator/patroni/values.yaml
+++ b/incubator/patroni/values.yaml
@@ -33,12 +33,21 @@ Etcd:
   Host: # fill-in value for etcd host (etcd.default.svc.cluster.local), leave blank to use the discovery parameter
   Discovery: # leave blank to use vendored etcd chart
 
+WalE:
+  Enable: false
+  Schedule_Cron_Job: 00 01 * * *
+  Retain_Backups: 2
+  S3_Bucket:
+  GCS_Bucket:
+  Kubernetes_Secret:
+  Backup_Threshold_Megabytes: 1024
+  Backup_Threshold_Percentage: 30
+
 persistentVolume:
   size: 1G
   storageClass: ""
   subPath: ""
   mountPath: "/home/postgres/pgdata"
   annotations: {}
-
   accessModes:
-    - ReadWriteOnce
+    - ReadWriteOnce
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