diff --git a/charts/ingress-nginx/README.md b/charts/ingress-nginx/README.md
index 5487ca218..ab16eb9ca 100644
--- a/charts/ingress-nginx/README.md
+++ b/charts/ingress-nginx/README.md
@@ -378,6 +378,7 @@ As of version `1.26.0` of this chart, by simply not providing any clusterIP valu
 | controller.opentelemetry.containerSecurityContext.allowPrivilegeEscalation | bool | `false` |  |
 | controller.opentelemetry.enabled | bool | `false` |  |
 | controller.opentelemetry.image | string | `"registry.k8s.io/ingress-nginx/opentelemetry:v20230721-3e2062ee5@sha256:13bee3f5223883d3ca62fee7309ad02d22ec00ff0d7033e3e9aca7a9f60fd472"` |  |
+| controller.opentelemetry.resources | object | `{}` |  |
 | controller.podAnnotations | object | `{}` | Annotations to be added to controller pods # |
 | controller.podLabels | object | `{}` | Labels to add to the pod container metadata |
 | controller.podSecurityContext | object | `{}` | Security Context policies for controller pods |
diff --git a/charts/ingress-nginx/templates/_helpers.tpl b/charts/ingress-nginx/templates/_helpers.tpl
index 7206fe5ba..bd268cfb2 100644
--- a/charts/ingress-nginx/templates/_helpers.tpl
+++ b/charts/ingress-nginx/templates/_helpers.tpl
@@ -208,6 +208,9 @@ Extra modules.
   {{- if .containerSecurityContext }}
   securityContext: {{ .containerSecurityContext | toYaml | nindent 4 }}
   {{- end }}
+  {{- if .resources }}
+  resources: {{ .resources | toYaml | nindent 4 }}
+  {{- end }}
   volumeMounts:
     - name: {{ toYaml "modules"}}
       mountPath: {{ toYaml "/modules_mount"}}
diff --git a/charts/ingress-nginx/templates/controller-deployment.yaml b/charts/ingress-nginx/templates/controller-deployment.yaml
index e23414ec9..df597076a 100644
--- a/charts/ingress-nginx/templates/controller-deployment.yaml
+++ b/charts/ingress-nginx/templates/controller-deployment.yaml
@@ -192,7 +192,8 @@ spec:
       {{- end }}
       {{- if .Values.controller.opentelemetry.enabled}}
           {{- $otelContainerSecurityContext := $.Values.controller.opentelemetry.containerSecurityContext | default $.Values.controller.containerSecurityContext }}
-          {{- include "extraModules" (dict "name" "opentelemetry" "image" .Values.controller.opentelemetry.image "containerSecurityContext" $otelContainerSecurityContext "distroless" true) | nindent 8}}
+          {{ $otelResources := $.Values.controller.opentelemetry.resources | default dict }}
+          {{- include "extraModules" (dict "name" "opentelemetry" "image" .Values.controller.opentelemetry.image "containerSecurityContext" $otelContainerSecurityContext "distroless" true "resources" $otelResources) | nindent 8}}
       {{- end}}
     {{- end }}
     {{- if .Values.controller.hostNetwork }}
diff --git a/charts/ingress-nginx/values.yaml b/charts/ingress-nginx/values.yaml
index fffbe90b2..6a1031223 100644
--- a/charts/ingress-nginx/values.yaml
+++ b/charts/ingress-nginx/values.yaml
@@ -577,6 +577,7 @@ controller:
     image: registry.k8s.io/ingress-nginx/opentelemetry:v20230721-3e2062ee5@sha256:13bee3f5223883d3ca62fee7309ad02d22ec00ff0d7033e3e9aca7a9f60fd472
     containerSecurityContext:
       allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
+    resources: {}
   admissionWebhooks:
     annotations: {}
     # ignore-check.kube-linter.io/no-read-only-rootfs: "This deployment needs write access to root filesystem".