diff --git a/charts/fleet/templates/cron-vulnprocessing.yaml b/charts/fleet/templates/cron-vulnprocessing.yaml
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+++ b/charts/fleet/templates/cron-vulnprocessing.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,226 @@
+{{- if .Values.vulnProcessing.dedicated }}
+apiVersion: batch/v1
+kind: CronJob
+metadata:
+  labels:
+    app: fleet
+    chart: fleet
+    heritage: {{ .Release.Service }}
+    release: {{ .Release.Name }}
+  name: fleet-vulnprocessing
+  namespace: {{ .Release.Namespace }}
+spec:
+  schedule: {{ .Values.vulnProcessing.schedule }}
+  jobTemplate:
+    spec:
+      ttlSecondsAfterFinished: 100
+      template:
+        metadata:
+{{- with .Values.podAnnotations }}
+          annotations:
+{{- toYaml . | trim | nindent 12 }}
+{{- end }}
+          labels:
+            app: fleet
+            chart: fleet
+            heritage: {{ .Release.Service }}
+            release: {{ .Release.Name }}
+        spec:
+          restartPolicy: Never
+          shareProcessNamespace: true
+          containers:
+          - name: fleet-vulnprocessing
+            command: ["/bin/sh", "-c"]
+            args:
+              - |
+                /usr/bin/fleet vuln_processing;
+                {{- if .Values.gke.cloudSQL.enableProxy }}
+                sql_proxy_pid=$(pgrep cloud_sql_proxy) && kill -INT $sql_proxy_pid;
+                {{- end }}
+            image: "{{ .Values.imageRepository }}:{{ .Values.imageTag }}"
+            resources:
+              limits:
+                cpu: {{ .Values.vulnProcessing.resources.limits.cpu }}
+                memory: {{ .Values.vulnProcessing.resources.limits.memory }}
+              requests:
+                cpu: {{ .Values.vulnProcessing.resources.requests.cpu }}
+                memory: {{ .Values.vulnProcessing.resources.requests.memory }}
+            env:
+              ## BEGIN FLEET SECTION
+              - name: FLEET_VULNERABILITIES_DATABASES_PATH
+                value: /tmp/vuln # /tmp might not work on all cloud providers by default
+              # - name: FLEET_SERVER_ADDRESS
+              #   value: "0.0.0.0:{{ .Values.fleet.listenPort }}"
+              # - name: FLEET_AUTH_BCRYPT_COST
+              #   value: "{{ .Values.fleet.auth.bcryptCost }}"
+              # - name: FLEET_AUTH_SALT_KEY_SIZE
+              #   value: "{{ .Values.fleet.auth.saltKeySize }}"
+              # - name: FLEET_APP_TOKEN_KEY_SIZE
+              #   value: "{{ .Values.fleet.app.tokenKeySize }}"
+              # - name: FLEET_APP_TOKEN_VALIDITY_PERIOD
+              #   value: "{{ .Values.fleet.app.inviteTokenValidityPeriod }}"
+              # - name: FLEET_SESSION_KEY_SIZE
+              #   value: "{{ .Values.fleet.session.keySize }}"
+              # - name: FLEET_SESSION_DURATION
+              #   value: "{{ .Values.fleet.session.duration }}"
+              - name: FLEET_LOGGING_DEBUG
+                value: "{{ .Values.fleet.logging.debug }}"
+              - name: FLEET_LOGGING_JSON
+                value: "{{ .Values.fleet.logging.json }}"
+              - name: FLEET_LOGGING_DISABLE_BANNER
+                value: "{{ .Values.fleet.logging.disableBanner }}"
+              # - name: FLEET_SERVER_TLS
+              #   value: "{{ .Values.fleet.tls.enabled }}"
+              # {{- if .Values.fleet.tls.enabled }}
+              # - name: FLEET_SERVER_TLS_COMPATIBILITY
+              #   value: "{{ .Values.fleet.tls.compatibility }}"
+              # - name: FLEET_SERVER_CERT
+              #   value: "/secrets/tls/{{ .Values.fleet.tls.certSecretKey }}"
+              # - name: FLEET_SERVER_KEY
+              #   value: "/secrets/tls/{{ .Values.fleet.tls.keySecretKey }}"
+              # {{- end }}
+              {{- if .Values.fleet.license.secretName }}
+              - name: FLEET_LICENSE_KEY
+                valueFrom:
+                  secretKeyRef:
+                    key: {{ .Values.fleet.license.licenseKey }}
+                    name: {{ .Values.fleet.license.secretName }}
+              {{- end }}
+              ## END FLEET SECTION
+              ## BEGIN MYSQL SECTION
+              - name: FLEET_MYSQL_ADDRESS
+                value: "{{ .Values.database.address }}"
+              - name: FLEET_MYSQL_DATABASE
+                value: "{{ .Values.database.database }}"
+              - name: FLEET_MYSQL_USERNAME
+                value: "{{ .Values.database.username }}"
+              - name: FLEET_MYSQL_PASSWORD
+                valueFrom:
+                  secretKeyRef:
+                    name: {{ .Values.database.secretName }}
+                    key: {{ .Values.database.passwordKey }}
+              - name: FLEET_MYSQL_MAX_OPEN_CONNS
+                value: "{{ .Values.database.maxOpenConns }}"
+              - name: FLEET_MYSQL_MAX_IDLE_CONNS
+                value: "{{ .Values.database.maxIdleConns }}"
+              - name: FLEET_MYSQL_CONN_MAX_LIFETIME
+                value: "{{ .Values.database.connMaxLifetime }}"
+              {{- if .Values.database.tls.enabled }}
+              {{- if .Values.database.tls.caCertKey }}
+              - name: FLEET_MYSQL_TLS_CA
+                value: "/secrets/mysql/{{ .Values.database.tls.caCertKey }}"
+              {{- end }}
+              {{- if .Values.database.tls.certKey }}
+              - name: FLEET_MYSQL_TLS_CERT
+                value: "/secrets/mysql/{{ .Values.database.tls.certKey }}"
+              {{- end }}
+              {{- if .Values.database.tls.keyKey }}
+              - name: FLEET_MYSQL_TLS_KEY
+                value: "/secrets/mysql/{{ .Values.database.tls.keyKey }}"
+              {{- end }}
+              - name: FLEET_MYSQL_TLS_CONFIG
+                value: "{{ .Values.database.tls.config }}"
+              - name: FLEET_MYSQL_TLS_SERVER_NAME
+                value: "{{ .Values.database.tls.serverName }}"
+              {{- end }}
+              ## END MYSQL SECTION
+              ## BEGIN REDIS SECTION
+              - name: FLEET_REDIS_ADDRESS
+                value: "{{ .Values.cache.address }}"
+              - name: FLEET_REDIS_DATABASE
+                value: "{{ .Values.cache.database }}"
+              {{- if .Values.cache.usePassword }}
+              - name: FLEET_REDIS_PASSWORD
+                valueFrom:
+                  secretKeyRef:
+                    name: "{{ .Values.cache.secretName }}"
+                    key: "{{ .Values.cache.passwordKey }}"
+              {{- end }}
+              ## END REDIS SECTION
+              ## APPEND ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES FROM VALUES
+              {{- range $key, $value := .Values.environments }}
+              - name: {{ $key }}
+                value: {{ $value | quote }}
+              {{- end }}
+              ## APPEND ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES FROM SECRETS/CMs
+              {{- range .Values.envsFrom }}
+              - name: {{ .name }}
+                valueFrom:
+              {{- if .valueFrom.configMapKeyRef }}
+                  configMapKeyRef:
+                    name: {{ .valueFrom.configMapKeyRef.name }}
+                    key: {{ .valueFrom.configMapKeyRef.key }}
+              {{- else if .valueFrom.secretKeyRef }}
+                  secretKeyRef:
+                    name: {{ .valueFrom.secretKeyRef.name }}
+                    key: {{ .valueFrom.secretKeyRef.key }}
+              {{- end }}
+              {{- end }}
+            securityContext:
+              allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
+              capabilities:
+                {{- if .Values.gke.cloudSQL.enableProxy }}
+                add:
+                  - SYS_PTRACE
+                {{- else }}
+                drop: [ALL]
+                {{- end }}
+              privileged: false
+              readOnlyRootFilesystem: true
+              runAsGroup: 3333
+              runAsUser: 3333
+              runAsNonRoot: true
+            volumeMounts:
+              - name: tmp
+                mountPath: /tmp
+              {{- if .Values.database.tls.enabled }}
+              - name: mysql-tls
+                readOnly: true
+                mountPath: /secrets/mysql
+              {{- end }}
+          {{- if .Values.gke.cloudSQL.enableProxy }}
+          - name: cloudsql-proxy
+            image: "{{ .Values.gke.cloudSQL.imageRepository }}:{{ .Values.gke.cloudSQL.imageTag }}"
+            command:
+            - "/cloud_sql_proxy"
+            - "-verbose={{ .Values.gke.cloudSQL.verbose}}"
+            - "-instances={{ .Values.gke.cloudSQL.instanceName }}=tcp:3306"
+            resources:
+              limits:
+                cpu: 0.5 # 500Mhz
+                memory: 150Mi
+              requests:
+                cpu: 0.1 # 100Mhz
+                memory: 50Mi
+            securityContext:
+              allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
+              capabilities:
+                drop: [ALL]
+              privileged: false
+              readOnlyRootFilesystem: true
+              runAsGroup: 3333
+              runAsUser: 3333
+              runAsNonRoot: true
+          {{- end }}
+          serviceAccountName: fleet
+          volumes:
+            - name: tmp
+              emptyDir:
+            {{- if .Values.database.tls.enabled }}
+            - name: mysql-tls
+              secret:
+                secretName: "{{ .Values.database.secretName }}"
+            {{- end }}
+          {{- with .Values.nodeSelector }}
+          nodeSelector:
+            {{- toYaml . | nindent 12 }}
+          {{- end }}
+        {{- with .Values.affinity }}
+          affinity:
+            {{- toYaml . | nindent 12 }}
+        {{- end }}
+        {{- with .Values.tolerations }}
+          tolerations:
+            {{- toYaml . | nindent 12 }}
+        {{- end }}
+{{- end }}
diff --git a/charts/fleet/templates/deployment.yaml b/charts/fleet/templates/deployment.yaml
index 74471d38b641..0ec7b9c39e16 100644
--- a/charts/fleet/templates/deployment.yaml
+++ b/charts/fleet/templates/deployment.yaml
@@ -269,6 +269,16 @@ spec:
             value: "{{ .Values.osquery.logging.pubsub.resultTopic }}"
           {{- end }}
           ## END OSQUERY SECTION
+
+          ## BEGIN VULNERABILITY PROCESSING
+          # Disable vulnerability processing in the main deployment when the
+          # dedicated cron is setup to reduce total cpu/memory utilization
+          {{- if .Values.vulnProcessing.dedicated }}
+          - name: FLEET_VULNERABILITIES_DISABLE_SCHEDULE
+            value: "true"
+          {{- end }}
+          ## END Vulnerability Processing
+
           ## APPEND ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES FROM VALUES
           {{- range $key, $value := .Values.environments }}
           - name: {{ $key }}
diff --git a/charts/fleet/values.yaml b/charts/fleet/values.yaml
index 0228b3346ce5..4f87959cc456 100644
--- a/charts/fleet/values.yaml
+++ b/charts/fleet/values.yaml
@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@ affinity:
 ingress:
   enabled: false
   className: ""
-  annotations: {}
+  annotations:
+    {}
     # kubernetes.io/tls-acme: "true"
     # nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/proxy-body-size: 10m
     # kubernetes.io/ingress.class: nginx
@@ -103,6 +104,21 @@ fleet:
   extraVolumes: []
   extraVolumeMounts: []
 
+# Whether to make fleet vulnerability processing run in a dedicated container
+# if you set dedicated=false, you need to increase the main resources section
+# to 4Gi or the fleet container will be OOMKilled when vulnerability processing
+# tries to run.
+vulnProcessing:
+  dedicated: true
+  schedule: "0 1 * * *"
+  resources:
+    limits:
+      cpu: 1 # 1GHz
+      memory: 4Gi
+    requests:
+      cpu: 0.1 # 100Mhz
+      memory: 50Mi
+
 ## Section: osquery
 # All of the settings related to osquery's interactions with the Fleet server
 osquery: