diff --git a/charts/all/coco-kyverno-policies/templates/inject-coco-initdata.yaml b/charts/all/coco-kyverno-policies/templates/inject-coco-initdata.yaml
index 84c06855..d7b220a7 100644
--- a/charts/all/coco-kyverno-policies/templates/inject-coco-initdata.yaml
+++ b/charts/all/coco-kyverno-policies/templates/inject-coco-initdata.yaml
@@ -24,6 +24,12 @@ spec:
                 - Pod
               operations:
                 - CREATE
+      exclude:
+        any:
+          - resources:
+              selector:
+                matchLabels:
+                  coco.io/skip-initdata: "true"
       preconditions:
         all:
           - key: "{{ "{{" }}request.object.spec.runtimeClassName || '' {{ "}}" }}"