diff --git a/elasticsearch/Chart.yaml b/elasticsearch/Chart.yaml
index 0968186473..d692806ce3 100644
--- a/elasticsearch/Chart.yaml
+++ b/elasticsearch/Chart.yaml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ apiVersion: v1
 appVersion: v7.6.2
 description: OpenStack-Helm ElasticSearch
 name: elasticsearch
-version: 0.2.2
+version: 0.2.3
 home: https://www.elastic.co/
 sources:
   - https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch
diff --git a/elasticsearch/templates/job-elasticsearch-template.yaml b/elasticsearch/templates/job-elasticsearch-template.yaml
index b7c031929a..5d902a731d 100644
--- a/elasticsearch/templates/job-elasticsearch-template.yaml
+++ b/elasticsearch/templates/job-elasticsearch-template.yaml
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ metadata:
   annotations:
     {{ tuple $envAll | include "helm-toolkit.snippets.release_uuid" }}
 spec:
+  backoffLimit: {{ .Values.jobs.create_elasticsearch_templates.backoffLimit }}
   template:
     metadata:
       labels:
diff --git a/elasticsearch/values.yaml b/elasticsearch/values.yaml
index 9155250f60..1e1de7cb15 100644
--- a/elasticsearch/values.yaml
+++ b/elasticsearch/values.yaml
@@ -430,6 +430,8 @@ jobs:
     history:
       success: 3
       failed: 1
+  create_elasticsearch_templates:
+    backoffLimit: 6
 
 conf:
   httpd: |
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/elasticsearch.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/elasticsearch.yaml
index 747271214e..355cfc0d0b 100644
--- a/releasenotes/notes/elasticsearch.yaml
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/elasticsearch.yaml
@@ -12,4 +12,5 @@ elasticsearch:
   - 0.2.0 Add more S3 configuration options
   - 0.2.1 Make templates job more robust & allow overrides
   - 0.2.2 Update the ES curator config to {}
+  - 0.2.3 Add configurable backoffLimit to templates job
 ...