diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 62e8c1e..9a5ea38 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -143,14 +143,23 @@ See the [HA Setup](docs/ha-setup.md) document for more details.
 ## Configuration
 
 Forgejo offers lots of configuration options.
-This is fully described in the [Cheat Sheet](https://forgejo.org/docs/latest/admin/config-cheat-sheet/).
+Every value described in the [Cheat Sheet](https://forgejo.org/docs/latest/admin/config-cheat-sheet/) can be set as a Helm value.
+Configuration sections map to (lowercased) YAML blocks, while the keys themselves remain in all caps.
 
 ```yaml
 gitea:
   config:
-    APP_NAME: 'Forgejo: With a cup of tea.'
+    # values in the DEFAULT section
+    # (https://forgejo.org/docs/latest/admin/config-cheat-sheet/#overall-default)
+    # are un-namespaced
+    #
+    APP_NAME: 'Forgejo: Git with a cup of tea'
+    #
+    # https://forgejo.org/docs/latest/admin/config-cheat-sheet/#repository-repository
     repository:
       ROOT: '~/gitea-repositories'
+    #
+    # https://forgejo.org/docs/latest/admin/config-cheat-sheet/#repository---pull-request-repositorypull-request
     repository.pull-request:
       WORK_IN_PROGRESS_PREFIXES: 'WIP:,[WIP]:'
 ```
@@ -367,7 +376,7 @@ stringData:
 #### User defined environment variables in app.ini
 
 Users are able to define their own environment variables, which are loaded into the containers.
-We also support to directly interact with the generated _app.ini_.
+We also support interacting directly with the generated _app.ini_.
 
 To inject self defined variables into the _app.ini_ a certain format needs to be honored.
 This is described in detail on the [env-to-ini](https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/tree/main/contrib/environment-to-ini) page.
@@ -378,9 +387,10 @@ For example a database setting needs to have the following format:
 
 ```yaml
 gitea:
+  config:
+    database:
+      HOST: my.own.host
   additionalConfigFromEnvs:
-    - name: FORGEJO__DATABASE__HOST
-      value: my.own.host
     - name: FORGEJO__DATABASE__PASSWD
       valueFrom:
         secretKeyRef:
@@ -406,7 +416,7 @@ If an external database is used, no matter which type, make sure to set `postgre
 gitea:
   config:
     database:
-      DB_TYPE: mysql
+      DB_TYPE: mysql # supported values are mysql, postgres, mssql, sqlite3
       HOST: <mysql HOST>
       NAME: gitea
       USER: root