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[DOCS-11896] Add rolling tag warning for Ingress-NGINX init container #36275

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Expand Up @@ -120,6 +120,8 @@ Check your Ingress-NGINX Controller version and ensure you have the matching Dat
The init-container version ([datadog/ingress-nginx-injection][1]) must exactly match your controller version to prevent startup issues.
For example, if you're running Ingress-NGINX v1.11.3, you need [datadog/ingress-nginx-injection:v1.11.3][2].

<div class="alert alert-info">Version tags like <code>v1.11.3</code> are rolling tags. The underlying Datadog NGINX module may be updated while the tag stays the same. To pin an exact version, reference the image by its digest (for example, <code>datadog/ingress-nginx-injection@sha256:...</code>).</div>

**2. Modify your controller's pod specification**<br>
Update the controller pod specification to include the init-container and configure the Datadog Agent host environment variable:

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The init-container version ([datadog/ingress-nginx-injection][1]) must exactly match your controller version to prevent startup issues.
For example, if you're running Ingress-NGINX v1.11.3, you need [datadog/ingress-nginx-injection:v1.11.3][2].

<div class="alert alert-info">Version tags like <code>v1.11.3</code> are rolling tags. The underlying Datadog NGINX module may be updated while the tag stays the same. To pin an exact version, reference the image by its digest (for example, <code>datadog/ingress-nginx-injection@sha256:...</code>).</div>

**2. Overriding Helm chart values**<br>
To customize the Ingress-NGINX Helm chart and load the required Datadog module, create a YAML file or modify an existing one with the following configuration:

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