# Helm installation with JWT & JWT2HEADER plugin

**URL:** <https://discuss.konghq.com/t/helm-installation-with-jwt-jwt2header-plugin/13416>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [March 11, 2025, 4:46pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/helm-installation-with-jwt-jwt2header-plugin/13416 "2025-03-11T16:46:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Anand\_R](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discuss.konghq.com/anand_r/32/4863_2.png) [@Anand\_R](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/Anand_R)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 4:46pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/helm-installation-with-jwt-jwt2header-plugin/13416/1 "2025-03-11T16:46:32Z")

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Hello,

I am pretty new to Kong and I was trying to bring up a Kong IC (non-DB mode) on my self-managed K8s cluster using the default helm charts as per documentation (kong/ingress chart).

1. I got both controller & gateway pods running without any issue and when I look up the Dashboard (Gateway UI), I can not find any plugins in it (I need both JWT & JWT2HEADER plugins) and I am unable to install any plugins in the UI screen
2. When I manually printed out all ENV variables from the gateway-pod, I see KONG\_PLUGINS=bundled.

a) Does anyone know which plugins come by default (“bundled”) and in case JWT & JWT2HEADER plugins is already present, how do I enable this?

b) In case these are not present in “bundled” mode, do I need to inject JWT & JWT2HEADER plugin manually as per this documentation [Custom Plugins - Kong Ingress Controller | Kong Docs](https://docs.konghq.com/kubernetes-ingress-controller/latest/plugins/custom/)

Would appreciate any help on this topic.

Thanks,  
Anand

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**Author:** ![Anand\_R](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discuss.konghq.com/anand_r/32/4863_2.png) [@Anand\_R](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/Anand_R)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2025, 4:19am UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/helm-installation-with-jwt-jwt2header-plugin/13416/2 "2025-03-12T04:19:13Z")

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As an update, I looked through the gateway pod file system under /usr/local/share/lua/5.1/kong/plugins/ folder and it lists the following folders:

$ ls /usr/local/share/lua/5.1/kong/plugins/  
acl aws-lambda grpc-gateway loggly redirect statsd  
acme azure-functions grpc-web oauth2 request-size-limiting syslog  
ai-prompt-decorator basic-auth hmac-auth opentelemetry request-termination tcp-log  
ai-prompt-guard bot-detection http-log post-function request-transformer udp-log  
ai-prompt-template correlation-id ip-restriction pre-function response-ratelimiting zipkin  
ai-proxy cors jwt prometheus response-transformer  
ai-request-transformer datadog key-auth proxy-cache session  
ai-response-transformer file-log ldap-auth rate-limiting standard-webhooks

Does this mean, all these plugins are already bundled? If so, should we enable them before we start using any of them and what is the config to do so.

Thanks,  
Anand