diff --git a/charts/sn-operator/templates/sa.yaml b/charts/sn-operator/templates/sa.yaml
index 7267a84..c5e4927 100644
--- a/charts/sn-operator/templates/sa.yaml
+++ b/charts/sn-operator/templates/sa.yaml
@@ -10,4 +10,5 @@ metadata:
   annotations:
     {{- toYaml . | nindent 4 }}
   {{- end }}
-{{- end }}
\ No newline at end of file
+automountServiceAccountToken: {{ .Values.serviceAccount.automountServiceAccountToken }}
+{{- end }}
diff --git a/charts/sn-operator/values.yaml b/charts/sn-operator/values.yaml
index bfc3bb6..a5d1d72 100644
--- a/charts/sn-operator/values.yaml
+++ b/charts/sn-operator/values.yaml
@@ -42,6 +42,10 @@ serviceAccount:
   # -- Specifies whether a service account should be created
   # if set to false, pre-create service account and specify the sa name, so the chart will bind the role/clusterrole to the sa.
   create: true
+  # -- Controls whether Kubernetes automatically mounts API credentials into pods using this service account.
+  # The operator requires Kubernetes API credentials. When set to false, configure
+  # volumeMounts and volumes below to project the service account credentials manually.
+  automountServiceAccountToken: true
   # Annotations to add to the service account
   annotations: {}
   # The name of the service account to use.
@@ -70,6 +74,35 @@ securityContext: {}
   # runAsNonRoot: true
   # runAsUser: 1000
 
+# -- Additional volume mounts for the operator container.
+# When serviceAccount.automountServiceAccountToken is false, the following example
+# mounts the credentials required by the operator at the standard in-cluster path.
+volumeMounts: []
+  # - name: kube-api-access
+  #   mountPath: /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount
+  #   readOnly: true
+
+# -- Additional volumes for the operator pod.
+volumes: []
+  # - name: kube-api-access
+  #   projected:
+  #     defaultMode: 420
+  #     sources:
+  #       - serviceAccountToken:
+  #           expirationSeconds: 3607
+  #           path: token
+  #       - configMap:
+  #           name: kube-root-ca.crt
+  #           items:
+  #             - key: ca.crt
+  #               path: ca.crt
+  #       - downwardAPI:
+  #           items:
+  #             - path: namespace
+  #               fieldRef:
+  #                 apiVersion: v1
+  #                 fieldPath: metadata.namespace
+
 # -- Add resource limits and requests
 resources: {}
   # We usually recommend not to specify default resources and to leave this as a conscious