diff --git a/charts/beekeeper/Chart.yaml b/charts/beekeeper/Chart.yaml
index d67f4b0..2c5ab57 100644
--- a/charts/beekeeper/Chart.yaml
+++ b/charts/beekeeper/Chart.yaml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 apiVersion: v2
 appVersion: latest
 name: beekeeper
-version: 0.4.2
+version: 0.4.3
 description: Ethereum Swarm Beekeeper Helm chart for Kubernetes
 home: https://www.ethswarm.org
 icon: https://docs.ethswarm.org/img/swarm-logo-2.svg
diff --git a/charts/beekeeper/templates/cronjob.yaml b/charts/beekeeper/templates/cronjob.yaml
index 99b0401..43fef2c 100644
--- a/charts/beekeeper/templates/cronjob.yaml
+++ b/charts/beekeeper/templates/cronjob.yaml
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ spec:
       labels:
         {{- include "beekeeper.selectorLabels" . | nindent 8 }}
     spec:
+      parallelism: {{ .Values.config.parallelism }}
       template:
         spec:
         {{- with .Values.imagePullSecrets }}
diff --git a/charts/beekeeper/values.yaml b/charts/beekeeper/values.yaml
index cd66035..be9b755 100644
--- a/charts/beekeeper/values.yaml
+++ b/charts/beekeeper/values.yaml
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ nodeSelector: {}
 
 config:
   command: ['beekeeper', 'check']
+  parallelism: 1
   dirPath: 'files'
   # environment variables
   CONFIG_GIT_REPO: ''