From 79b97c7c55c34abaac4840ea76aa154f00637f03 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "shawn.mulford" <48554759+hsdp-smulford@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2026 12:47:02 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] feat(helm): add namespaceOverride support to FluentBit chart

Adds fluentbit.namespaceOverride value so users can deploy FluentBit
resources into a namespace different from .Release.Namespace.

Fixes #1918

Signed-off-by: shawn.mulford <48554759+hsdp-smulford@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 charts/fluent-operator/templates/fluentbit-fluentBit.yaml | 2 +-
 charts/fluent-operator/values.yaml                        | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/charts/fluent-operator/templates/fluentbit-fluentBit.yaml b/charts/fluent-operator/templates/fluentbit-fluentBit.yaml
index 051f2ff7e..0e35937df 100644
--- a/charts/fluent-operator/templates/fluentbit-fluentBit.yaml
+++ b/charts/fluent-operator/templates/fluentbit-fluentBit.yaml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ apiVersion: fluentbit.fluent.io/v1alpha2
 kind: FluentBit
 metadata:
   name: fluent-bit
-  namespace: {{ .Release.Namespace | quote }}
+  namespace: {{ default .Release.Namespace .Values.fluentbit.namespaceOverride | quote }}
   labels:
     app.kubernetes.io/name: fluent-bit
 spec:
diff --git a/charts/fluent-operator/values.yaml b/charts/fluent-operator/values.yaml
index 9983563e3..d57448468 100644
--- a/charts/fluent-operator/values.yaml
+++ b/charts/fluent-operator/values.yaml
@@ -113,6 +113,8 @@ operator:
 fluentbit:
   # -- Enable Fluent Bit deployment
   enable: true
+  # -- Override the namespace for FluentBit resources; defaults to .Release.Namespace
+  namespaceOverride: ""
   serviceMonitor:
     # -- Enable Prometheus ServiceMonitor for Fluent Bit
     enable: false