diff --git a/helm/templates/embedding_model/deployment.yaml b/helm/templates/embedding_model/deployment.yaml
index 66015c0..ef59fff 100644
--- a/helm/templates/embedding_model/deployment.yaml
+++ b/helm/templates/embedding_model/deployment.yaml
@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ spec:
               value: {{ .Values.embeddingModel.env.EMBEDDING_MODEL_TYPE | quote }}
             - name: EMBEDDING_MODEL_VECTOR_SIZE
               value: {{ .Values.embeddingModel.env.EMBEDDING_MODEL_VECTOR_SIZE | quote }}
+            - name: OPENAI_API_KEY
+              value: {{ .Values.embeddingModel.env.OPENAI_API_KEY | quote }}
       volumes:
         - name: downloaded-models
           persistentVolumeClaim:
diff --git a/helm/values.yaml b/helm/values.yaml
index 7b54271..8ea06f7 100644
--- a/helm/values.yaml
+++ b/helm/values.yaml
@@ -130,6 +130,7 @@ embeddingModel:
     EMBEDDING_MODEL_NAME: "sentence-transformers/gtr-t5-large"
     EMBEDDING_MODEL_TYPE: 1
     EMBEDDING_MODEL_VECTOR_SIZE: 768
+    OPENAI_API_KEY: test
 
 env:
   # APP_ENVIRONMENT: