diff --git a/deployments/helm/templates/configmap.yaml b/deployments/helm/templates/configmap.yaml
index dd52b6fa8c..1ccb773355 100644
--- a/deployments/helm/templates/configmap.yaml
+++ b/deployments/helm/templates/configmap.yaml
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ data:
     <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
     <configuration>
 
-      <--
+      <!--
       in a container environment we only need stdout
       -->
       <appender name="STDOUT" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
diff --git a/deployments/helm/templates/deployment.yaml b/deployments/helm/templates/deployment.yaml
index 928daa5f06..7e19f61e57 100644
--- a/deployments/helm/templates/deployment.yaml
+++ b/deployments/helm/templates/deployment.yaml
@@ -29,6 +29,17 @@ spec:
         volumeMounts:
         - name: data
           mountPath: /data
+      {{- if .Values.plugins }}
+      - name: install-plugins
+        image: alpine:3.8
+        imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
+        command: ['sh', '/scripts/install-plugins.sh']
+        volumeMounts:
+        - name: data
+          mountPath: /data
+        - name: scripts
+          mountPath: /scripts
+      {{- end }}
       containers:
         - name: {{ .Chart.Name }}
           image: "{{ .Values.image.repository }}:{{ .Values.image.tag }}"
@@ -63,6 +74,11 @@ spec:
       - name: config
         configMap: 
           name: {{ include "scm-manager.fullname" . }}
+      {{- if .Values.plugins }}
+      - name: scripts
+        configMap: 
+          name: {{ include "scm-manager.fullname" . }}-scripts
+      {{- end }}
     {{- with .Values.nodeSelector }}
       nodeSelector:
 {{ toYaml . | indent 8 }}
diff --git a/deployments/helm/templates/scripts.yaml b/deployments/helm/templates/scripts.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..43a442a8e2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deployments/helm/templates/scripts.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{{- if .Values.plugins }}
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: ConfigMap
+metadata:
+  name: {{ include "scm-manager.fullname" . }}-scripts
+  labels:
+    app: {{ include "scm-manager.name" . }}
+    chart: "{{ .Chart.Name }}-{{ .Chart.Version }}"
+    release: "{{ .Release.Name }}"
+    heritage: "{{ .Release.Service }}"
+data:
+  install-plugins.sh: |
+    #!/bin/sh
+    mkdir -p /data/plugins
+    chown 1000:1000 /data/plugins
+    {{ range $i, $plugin := .Values.plugins }}
+    # install plugin {{ $plugin.name }}
+    wget -O /data/plugins/{{ $plugin.name }}.smp {{ $plugin.url }}
+    chown 1000:1000 /data/plugins/{{ $plugin.name }}.smp
+    {{ end }}
+{{- end }}
diff --git a/deployments/helm/values.yaml b/deployments/helm/values.yaml
index d54088aa8b..0b107a8168 100644
--- a/deployments/helm/values.yaml
+++ b/deployments/helm/values.yaml
@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ image:
   tag: latest
   pullPolicy: Always
 
+# plugins:
+#  - name: scm-review-plugin
+#    url: https://oss.cloudogu.com/jenkins/job/scm-manager/job/scm-manager-bitbucket/job/scm-review-plugin/job/develop/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/target/scm-review-plugin-2.0.0-SNAPSHOT.smp
+
 nameOverride: ""
 fullnameOverride: ""