diff --git a/nova/templates/deployment-placement.yaml b/nova/templates/deployment-placement.yaml
index cd02da6012..818c0c9d69 100644
--- a/nova/templates/deployment-placement.yaml
+++ b/nova/templates/deployment-placement.yaml
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ spec:
         - name: nova-placement-api
 {{ tuple $envAll "nova_placement" | include "helm-toolkit.snippets.image" | indent 10 }}
 {{ tuple $envAll $envAll.Values.pod.resources.placement | include "helm-toolkit.snippets.kubernetes_resources" | indent 10 }}
+{{ dict "envAll" $envAll "application" "nova" "container" "nova_placement_api" | include "helm-toolkit.snippets.kubernetes_container_security_context" | indent 10 }}
           command:
             - /tmp/nova-placement-api.sh
             - start
diff --git a/nova/values.yaml b/nova/values.yaml
index fa8669d0bc..f0ed44bf00 100644
--- a/nova/values.yaml
+++ b/nova/values.yaml
@@ -2203,6 +2203,9 @@ pod:
         nova_novncproxy:
           readOnlyRootFilesystem: true
           allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
+        nova_placement_api:
+          readOnlyRootFilesystem: false
+          allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
         nova_scheduler:
           readOnlyRootFilesystem: true
           allowPrivilegeEscalation: false