From f9142d79610125a7d7232b013f86056ddd113561 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: tin-berri <tin@berri.ai>
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2026 12:07:19 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] fix(helm): Enable Backend Deployment to mount Gateway
 config.yaml (#29605)

* change deployment configs to include a litellm.cache for litellm-backend pod mirroring litellm-gateway pod

* omit backend annotations block when config and podAnnotations are both empty

* reuse gateway config/configmap for backend instead of separate backend config

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Co-authored-by: shin-berri <shin-laptop@berri.ai>
Co-authored-by: yuneng-jiang <yuneng@berri.ai>
Co-authored-by: Tin Chi Lo <tin@Tins-MBP.localdomain>
Co-authored-by: Tin Chi Lo <tin@Tins-MacBook-Pro.local>
---
 .../litellm/templates/backend/deployment.yaml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/helm/litellm/templates/backend/deployment.yaml b/helm/litellm/templates/backend/deployment.yaml
index 3b59c58c8b..b355db4354 100644
--- a/helm/litellm/templates/backend/deployment.yaml
+++ b/helm/litellm/templates/backend/deployment.yaml
@@ -12,9 +12,14 @@ spec:
       {{- include "litellm.backend.selectorLabels" . | nindent 6 }}
   template:
     metadata:
-      {{- with .Values.backend.podAnnotations }}
+      {{- if or .Values.gateway.config.create .Values.backend.podAnnotations }}
       annotations:
+        {{- if .Values.gateway.config.create }}
+        checksum/config: {{ include (print $.Template.BasePath "/gateway/configmap.yaml") . | sha256sum }}
+        {{- end }}
+        {{- with .Values.backend.podAnnotations }}
         {{- toYaml . | nindent 8 }}
+        {{- end }}
       {{- end }}
       labels:
         {{- include "litellm.backend.selectorLabels" . | nindent 8 }}
@@ -35,7 +40,17 @@ spec:
               protocol: TCP
           env:
             {{- include "litellm.serverEnv" (dict "root" $ "component" .Values.backend) | nindent 12 }}
+            {{- if .Values.gateway.config.create }}
+            - name: CONFIG_FILE_PATH
+              value: /app/config/config.yaml
+            {{- end }}
           {{- include "litellm.envFrom" .Values.backend | nindent 10 }}
+          {{- if .Values.gateway.config.create }}
+          volumeMounts:
+            - name: gateway-config
+              mountPath: /app/config/config.yaml
+              subPath: config.yaml
+          {{- end }}
           {{- with .Values.backend.livenessProbe }}
           livenessProbe:
             {{- toYaml . | nindent 12 }}
@@ -46,6 +61,12 @@ spec:
           {{- end }}
           resources:
             {{- toYaml .Values.backend.resources | nindent 12 }}
+      {{- if .Values.gateway.config.create }}
+      volumes:
+        - name: gateway-config
+          configMap:
+            name: {{ include "litellm.gateway.fullname" . }}-config
+      {{- end }}
       {{- with .Values.backend.nodeSelector }}
       nodeSelector:
         {{- toYaml . | nindent 8 }}