diff --git a/charts/argo-cd/templates/argocd-applicationset/deployment.yaml b/charts/argo-cd/templates/argocd-applicationset/deployment.yaml
index 303106b5..ca4eeb63 100644
--- a/charts/argo-cd/templates/argocd-applicationset/deployment.yaml
+++ b/charts/argo-cd/templates/argocd-applicationset/deployment.yaml
@@ -211,6 +211,18 @@ spec:
                   name: argocd-cmd-params-cm
                   key: applicationsetcontroller.webhook.parallelism.limit
                   optional: true
+            - name: ARGOCD_APPLICATIONSET_CONTROLLER_ENABLE_GITHUB_CACHE
+              valueFrom:
+                configMapKeyRef:
+                  name: argocd-cmd-params-cm
+                  key: applicationsetcontroller.enable.github.cache
+                  optional: true
+            - name: ARGOCD_APPLICATIONSET_CONTROLLER_GITHUB_CACHE_SIZE
+              valueFrom:
+                configMapKeyRef:
+                  name: argocd-cmd-params-cm
+                  key: applicationsetcontroller.github.cache.size
+                  optional: true
           {{- with .Values.applicationSet.extraEnvFrom }}
           envFrom:
             {{- toYaml . | nindent 12 }}
diff --git a/charts/argo-cd/values.yaml b/charts/argo-cd/values.yaml
index d5056840..fcde6318 100644
--- a/charts/argo-cd/values.yaml
+++ b/charts/argo-cd/values.yaml
@@ -303,7 +303,10 @@ configs:
     # @default -- `""` (default is only the ns where the controller is installed)
     ## For more information: https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/operator-manual/applicationset/Appset-Any-Namespace/
     applicationsetcontroller.namespaces: ""
-
+    # -- Enables caching of github api requests
+    applicationsetcontroller.enable.github.caching: false
+    # -- Max items to store in the github lru cache
+    applicationsetcontroller.github.cache.size: 1000
     # -- Enables [Applications in any namespace]
     ## List of additional namespaces where applications may be created in and reconciled from.
     ## The namespace where Argo CD is installed to will always be allowed.