diff --git a/charts/pdc-agent/Chart.yaml b/charts/pdc-agent/Chart.yaml
index bd59c6c652..fb41f7bc4c 100644
--- a/charts/pdc-agent/Chart.yaml
+++ b/charts/pdc-agent/Chart.yaml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ name: pdc-agent
 description: PDC agent is an agent for connecting to Grafana Private Data source Connect
 type: application
 appVersion: "0.0.45"
-version: 0.0.1
+version: 0.0.2
 home: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/connect-externally-hosted/private-data-source-connect/
 sources:
   - https://github.com/grafana/pdc-agent
diff --git a/charts/pdc-agent/README.md b/charts/pdc-agent/README.md
index c765919780..65d97573b7 100644
--- a/charts/pdc-agent/README.md
+++ b/charts/pdc-agent/README.md
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ PDC agent is an agent for connecting to Grafana Private Data source Connect
 | securityContext.allowPrivilegeEscalation | bool | `false` |  |
 | securityContext.capabilities.drop[0] | string | `"ALL"` |  |
 | securityContext.privileged | bool | `false` |  |
+| securityContext.readOnlyRootFilesystem | bool | `false` |  |
 | securityContext.runAsNonRoot | bool | `true` |  |
 | tokenSecretName | string | `""` | secretName Expects a secret with key `token` which contains the Access Policy token you generated |
 | tolerations | list | `[]` | not required, but left in as a choice |
diff --git a/charts/pdc-agent/templates/deployment.yaml b/charts/pdc-agent/templates/deployment.yaml
index c86cbd22fa..e740c39fec 100644
--- a/charts/pdc-agent/templates/deployment.yaml
+++ b/charts/pdc-agent/templates/deployment.yaml
@@ -75,6 +75,17 @@ spec:
             {{- range .Values.extraArgs }}
             - {{ . }}
             {{- end }}
+          {{- if .Values.securityContext.readOnlyRootFilesystem }}
+          volumeMounts:
+            - mountPath: /home/pdc/
+              name: ssh-cache
+          {{- end }}
+      {{- if .Values.securityContext.readOnlyRootFilesystem }}
+      volumes:
+        - name: ssh-cache
+          emptyDir:
+            sizeLimit: 50Mi
+      {{- end }}
       {{- with .Values.nodeSelector }}
       nodeSelector:
         {{- toYaml . | nindent 8 }}
diff --git a/charts/pdc-agent/values.yaml b/charts/pdc-agent/values.yaml
index 3124d9a033..0be15127ce 100644
--- a/charts/pdc-agent/values.yaml
+++ b/charts/pdc-agent/values.yaml
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ securityContext:
   runAsNonRoot: true
   privileged: false
   allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
+  readOnlyRootFilesystem: false
 
 resources:
   requests: