diff --git a/charts/simple-app/Chart.yaml b/charts/simple-app/Chart.yaml
index 6a6fce1e..71910dab 100644
--- a/charts/simple-app/Chart.yaml
+++ b/charts/simple-app/Chart.yaml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ apiVersion: v2
 name: simple-app
 description: Default Microservice Helm Chart
 type: application
-version: 0.9.4
+version: 0.9.5
 appVersion: latest
 maintainers:
   - name: diranged
diff --git a/charts/simple-app/README.md b/charts/simple-app/README.md
index 876ae6ce..7c6845fd 100644
--- a/charts/simple-app/README.md
+++ b/charts/simple-app/README.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 Default Microservice Helm Chart
 
-![Version: 0.9.4](https://img.shields.io/badge/Version-0.9.4-informational?style=flat-square) ![Type: application](https://img.shields.io/badge/Type-application-informational?style=flat-square) ![AppVersion: latest](https://img.shields.io/badge/AppVersion-latest-informational?style=flat-square)
+![Version: 0.9.5](https://img.shields.io/badge/Version-0.9.5-informational?style=flat-square) ![Type: application](https://img.shields.io/badge/Type-application-informational?style=flat-square) ![AppVersion: latest](https://img.shields.io/badge/AppVersion-latest-informational?style=flat-square)
 
 [deployments]: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/deployment/
 [hpa]: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/run-application/horizontal-pod-autoscale/
diff --git a/charts/simple-app/templates/_helpers.tpl b/charts/simple-app/templates/_helpers.tpl
index 041767d1..a2cde7db 100644
--- a/charts/simple-app/templates/_helpers.tpl
+++ b/charts/simple-app/templates/_helpers.tpl
@@ -34,10 +34,11 @@ Create chart name and version as used by the chart label.
 Common labels
 */}}
 {{- define "simple-app.labels" -}}
+{{- $tag := default .Chart.AppVersion .Values.image.tag -}}
 helm.sh/chart: {{ include "simple-app.chart" . }}
-{{ include "simple-app.selectorLabels" . }}
-app.kubernetes.io/version: {{ default .Chart.AppVersion .Values.image.tag | trunc 63 | replace ":" "_" | quote }}
+app.kubernetes.io/version: {{ $tag | replace ":" "_" | trunc 63 | quote }}
 app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: {{ .Release.Service }}
+{{ include "simple-app.selectorLabels" . }}
 {{- end }}
 
 {{/*
@@ -58,3 +59,24 @@ Create the name of the service account to use
 {{- default "default" .Values.serviceAccount.name }}
 {{- end }}
 {{- end }}
+
+{{/*
+Proxy and Main App Image Names
+*/}}
+{{- define "simple-app.imageFqdn" -}}
+{{- $tag := default .Chart.AppVersion .Values.image.tag }}
+{{- if hasPrefix "sha256:" $tag }}
+{{- .Values.image.repository }}@{{ $tag }}
+{{- else }}
+{{- .Values.image.repository }}:{{ $tag }}
+{{- end }}
+{{- end }}
+
+{{- define "simple-app.proxyImageFqdn" -}}
+{{- $tag := .Values.proxySidecar.image.tag }}
+{{- if hasPrefix "sha256:" $tag }}
+{{- .Values.proxySidecar.image.repository }}@{{ $tag }}
+{{- else }}
+{{- .Values.proxySidecar.image.repository }}:{{ $tag }}
+{{- end }}
+{{- end }}
diff --git a/charts/simple-app/templates/deployment.yaml b/charts/simple-app/templates/deployment.yaml
index ce05879a..e9229f4e 100644
--- a/charts/simple-app/templates/deployment.yaml
+++ b/charts/simple-app/templates/deployment.yaml
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ spec:
       containers:
         {{- if .Values.proxySidecar.enabled }}
         - name: {{ .Values.proxySidecar.name }}
-          image: "{{ .Values.proxySidecar.image.repository }}:{{ .Values.proxySidecar.image.tag }}"
+          image: {{ include "simple-app.proxyImageFqdn" . }}
           imagePullPolicy: {{ .Values.proxySidecar.image.pullPolicy }}
           {{- with .Values.proxySidecar.envFrom }}
           envFrom:
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ spec:
         - name: {{ .Chart.Name }}
           securityContext:
             {{- toYaml .Values.securityContext | nindent 12 }}
-          image: "{{ .Values.image.repository }}:{{ default .Chart.AppVersion .Values.image.tag }}"
+          image: {{ include "simple-app.imageFqdn" . }}
           imagePullPolicy: {{ .Values.image.pullPolicy }}
           {{- with .Values.envFrom }}
           envFrom:
diff --git a/charts/simple-app/templates/tests/test-connection.yaml b/charts/simple-app/templates/tests/test-connection.yaml
index d1e49220..bb4999f3 100644
--- a/charts/simple-app/templates/tests/test-connection.yaml
+++ b/charts/simple-app/templates/tests/test-connection.yaml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ spec:
         {{- if .Values.tests.connection.image.repository }}
         {{ .Values.tests.connection.image.repository }}:{{ default "latest" .Values.tests.connection.image.tag }}
         {{- else }}
-        {{ .Values.image.repository }}:{{ default .Chart.AppVersion .Values.image.tag }}
+        {{ include "simple-app.imageFqdn" . }}
         {{- end }}
       command:
         {{- toYaml .Values.tests.connection.command | nindent 8 }}
diff --git a/charts/simple-app/values.local.yaml b/charts/simple-app/values.local.yaml
index 9d641d3b..e6613095 100644
--- a/charts/simple-app/values.local.yaml
+++ b/charts/simple-app/values.local.yaml
@@ -7,4 +7,3 @@ ingress:
   # -- Disable the SSL-Redirect explicitly because it only applies to
   # ALB-ingress controllers.
   sslRedirect: false
-