✨(helm) allow disallowing search engine indexing per instance

Add an optional ConfigMap-backed robots.txt mounted into the frontend
static export (frontend.robotsTxt.enabled/content), following the same
pattern as backend.themeCustomization, and enable it with a full
Disallow on the feature review-app environment.

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ and this project adheres to
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+### Added
+
+- ✨(helm) allow disallowing search engine indexing per instance #2694
+
 ## [v5.7.0] - 2026-09-15
 
 ### Added

src/helm/env.d/feature/values.impress.yaml.gotmpl

@@ -134,6 +134,12 @@ frontend:
 
   replicas: 1
 
+  robotsTxt:
+    enabled: true
+    content: |
+      User-agent: *
+      Disallow: /
+
   image:
     repository: lasuite/impress-frontend
     pullPolicy: Always

src/helm/impress/README.md

@@ -216,6 +216,8 @@
 | `frontend.extraVolumes`                                | Additional volumes to mount on the frontend.                                        | `[]`                       |
 | `frontend.pdb.enabled`                                 | Enable pdb on frontend                                                              | `true`                     |
 | `frontend.serviceAccountName`                          | Optional service account name to use for frontend pods                              | `nil`                      |
+| `frontend.robotsTxt.enabled`                           | Enable serving a custom robots.txt file from the frontend, e.g. to disallow indexing of non-production instances | `false`                      |
+| `frontend.robotsTxt.content`                           | Content of the robots.txt file                                                      | `"User-agent: *\nAllow: /\n"` |
 
 ### posthog
 

src/helm/impress/templates/frontend_deployment.yaml

@@ -97,6 +97,12 @@ spec:
               subPath: {{ .subPath | default "" }}
               readOnly: {{ .readOnly }}
             {{- end }}
+            {{- if .Values.frontend.robotsTxt.enabled }}
+            - name: robots-txt
+              mountPath: /app/robots.txt
+              subPath: robots.txt
+              readOnly: true
+            {{- end }}
       {{- with .Values.frontend.nodeSelector }}
       nodeSelector:
         {{- toYaml . | nindent 8 }}
@@ -148,6 +154,11 @@ spec:
           emptyDir: {}
           {{- end }}
         {{- end }}
+        {{- if .Values.frontend.robotsTxt.enabled }}
+        - name: robots-txt
+          configMap:
+            name: docs-frontend-robots-txt
+        {{- end }}
 ---
 {{ if .Values.frontend.pdb.enabled }}
 apiVersion: policy/v1

src/helm/impress/templates/robots_txt_cm.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+{{- if .Values.frontend.robotsTxt.enabled }}
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: ConfigMap
+metadata:
+  name: docs-frontend-robots-txt
+  namespace: {{ .Release.Namespace }}
+data:
+  robots.txt: |
+    {{- .Values.frontend.robotsTxt.content | nindent 4 }}
+{{- end }}

src/helm/impress/values.yaml

@@ -573,6 +573,14 @@ frontend:
   ## @param frontend.serviceAccountName Optional service account name to use for frontend pods
   serviceAccountName: null
 
+  ## @param frontend.robotsTxt.enabled Enable serving a custom robots.txt file from the frontend, e.g. to disallow indexing of non-production instances
+  ## @param frontend.robotsTxt.content Content of the robots.txt file
+  robotsTxt:
+    enabled: false
+    content: |
+      User-agent: *
+      Allow: /
+
 ## @section posthog
 
 posthog: