diff --git a/charts/kyverno/Chart.yaml b/charts/kyverno/Chart.yaml
index 17501119fb..9f6ea405fb 100644
--- a/charts/kyverno/Chart.yaml
+++ b/charts/kyverno/Chart.yaml
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ annotations:
   artifacthub.io/changes: |
     - kind: fixed
       description: fix validation error in validate.yaml
+    - kind: fixed
+      description: fixed global image registry config by introducing *.image.defaultRegistry.
 dependencies:
   - name: grafana
     version: v0.0.0
diff --git a/charts/kyverno/README.md b/charts/kyverno/README.md
index 88e5361cf5..f4d682b80c 100644
--- a/charts/kyverno/README.md
+++ b/charts/kyverno/README.md
@@ -264,7 +264,8 @@ The chart values are organised per component.
 | crds.customLabels | object | `{}` | Additional CRDs labels |
 | crds.migration.enabled | bool | `true` | Enable CRDs migration using helm post upgrade hook |
 | crds.migration.resources | list | `["cleanuppolicies.kyverno.io","clustercleanuppolicies.kyverno.io","clusterpolicies.kyverno.io","globalcontextentries.kyverno.io","policies.kyverno.io","policyexceptions.kyverno.io","updaterequests.kyverno.io"]` | Resources to migrate |
-| crds.migration.image.registry | string | `"ghcr.io"` | Image registry |
+| crds.migration.image.registry | string | `nil` | Image registry |
+| crds.migration.image.defaultRegistry | string | `"ghcr.io"` |  |
 | crds.migration.image.repository | string | `"kyverno/kyverno-cli"` | Image repository |
 | crds.migration.image.tag | string | `nil` | Image tag Defaults to appVersion in Chart.yaml if omitted |
 | crds.migration.image.pullPolicy | string | `"IfNotPresent"` | Image pull policy |
@@ -404,7 +405,8 @@ The chart values are organised per component.
 | admissionController.caCertificates.data | string | `nil` | CA certificates to use with Kyverno deployments This value is expected to be one large string of CA certificates |
 | admissionController.caCertificates.volume | object | `{}` | Volume to be mounted for CA certificates Not used when `.Values.admissionController.caCertificates.data` is defined |
 | admissionController.imagePullSecrets | list | `[]` | Image pull secrets |
-| admissionController.initContainer.image.registry | string | `"ghcr.io"` | Image registry |
+| admissionController.initContainer.image.registry | string | `nil` | Image registry |
+| admissionController.initContainer.image.defaultRegistry | string | `"ghcr.io"` |  |
 | admissionController.initContainer.image.repository | string | `"kyverno/kyvernopre"` | Image repository |
 | admissionController.initContainer.image.tag | string | `nil` | Image tag If missing, defaults to image.tag |
 | admissionController.initContainer.image.pullPolicy | string | `nil` | Image pull policy If missing, defaults to image.pullPolicy |
@@ -413,7 +415,8 @@ The chart values are organised per component.
 | admissionController.initContainer.securityContext | object | `{"allowPrivilegeEscalation":false,"capabilities":{"drop":["ALL"]},"privileged":false,"readOnlyRootFilesystem":true,"runAsNonRoot":true,"seccompProfile":{"type":"RuntimeDefault"}}` | Container security context |
 | admissionController.initContainer.extraArgs | object | `{}` | Additional container args. |
 | admissionController.initContainer.extraEnvVars | list | `[]` | Additional container environment variables. |
-| admissionController.container.image.registry | string | `"ghcr.io"` | Image registry |
+| admissionController.container.image.registry | string | `nil` | Image registry |
+| admissionController.container.image.defaultRegistry | string | `"ghcr.io"` |  |
 | admissionController.container.image.repository | string | `"kyverno/kyverno"` | Image repository |
 | admissionController.container.image.tag | string | `nil` | Image tag Defaults to appVersion in Chart.yaml if omitted |
 | admissionController.container.image.pullPolicy | string | `"IfNotPresent"` | Image pull policy |
@@ -471,7 +474,8 @@ The chart values are organised per component.
 | backgroundController.rbac.serviceAccount.annotations | object | `{}` | Annotations for the ServiceAccount |
 | backgroundController.rbac.coreClusterRole.extraResources | list | See [values.yaml](values.yaml) | Extra resource permissions to add in the core cluster role. This was introduced to avoid breaking change in the chart but should ideally be moved in `clusterRole.extraResources`. |
 | backgroundController.rbac.clusterRole.extraResources | list | `[]` | Extra resource permissions to add in the cluster role |
-| backgroundController.image.registry | string | `"ghcr.io"` | Image registry |
+| backgroundController.image.registry | string | `nil` | Image registry |
+| backgroundController.image.defaultRegistry | string | `"ghcr.io"` |  |
 | backgroundController.image.repository | string | `"kyverno/background-controller"` | Image repository |
 | backgroundController.image.tag | string | `nil` | Image tag Defaults to appVersion in Chart.yaml if omitted |
 | backgroundController.image.pullPolicy | string | `"IfNotPresent"` | Image pull policy |
@@ -546,7 +550,8 @@ The chart values are organised per component.
 | cleanupController.rbac.serviceAccount.annotations | object | `{}` | Annotations for the ServiceAccount |
 | cleanupController.rbac.clusterRole.extraResources | list | `[]` | Extra resource permissions to add in the cluster role |
 | cleanupController.createSelfSignedCert | bool | `false` | Create self-signed certificates at deployment time. The certificates won't be automatically renewed if this is set to `true`. |
-| cleanupController.image.registry | string | `"ghcr.io"` | Image registry |
+| cleanupController.image.registry | string | `nil` | Image registry |
+| cleanupController.image.defaultRegistry | string | `"ghcr.io"` |  |
 | cleanupController.image.repository | string | `"kyverno/cleanup-controller"` | Image repository |
 | cleanupController.image.tag | string | `nil` | Image tag Defaults to appVersion in Chart.yaml if omitted |
 | cleanupController.image.pullPolicy | string | `"IfNotPresent"` | Image pull policy |
@@ -629,7 +634,8 @@ The chart values are organised per component.
 | reportsController.rbac.serviceAccount.annotations | object | `{}` | Annotations for the ServiceAccount |
 | reportsController.rbac.coreClusterRole.extraResources | list | See [values.yaml](values.yaml) | Extra resource permissions to add in the core cluster role. This was introduced to avoid breaking change in the chart but should ideally be moved in `clusterRole.extraResources`. |
 | reportsController.rbac.clusterRole.extraResources | list | `[]` | Extra resource permissions to add in the cluster role |
-| reportsController.image.registry | string | `"ghcr.io"` | Image registry |
+| reportsController.image.registry | string | `nil` | Image registry |
+| reportsController.image.defaultRegistry | string | `"ghcr.io"` |  |
 | reportsController.image.repository | string | `"kyverno/reports-controller"` | Image repository |
 | reportsController.image.tag | string | `nil` | Image tag Defaults to appVersion in Chart.yaml if omitted |
 | reportsController.image.pullPolicy | string | `"IfNotPresent"` | Image pull policy |
diff --git a/charts/kyverno/templates/_helpers/_image.tpl b/charts/kyverno/templates/_helpers/_image.tpl
index 125059f728..7f804917d1 100644
--- a/charts/kyverno/templates/_helpers/_image.tpl
+++ b/charts/kyverno/templates/_helpers/_image.tpl
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 {{- if not (typeIs "string" $tag) -}}
   {{ fail "Image tags must be strings." }}
 {{- end -}}
-{{- $imageRegistry := default .globalRegistry .image.registry -}}
+{{- $imageRegistry := default (default .image.defaultRegistry .globalRegistry) .image.registry -}}
 {{- if $imageRegistry -}}
   {{- print $imageRegistry "/" (required "An image repository is required" .image.repository) ":" $tag -}}
 {{- else -}}
diff --git a/charts/kyverno/templates/background-controller/_helpers.tpl b/charts/kyverno/templates/background-controller/_helpers.tpl
index 6b75cb329e..10aac22b48 100644
--- a/charts/kyverno/templates/background-controller/_helpers.tpl
+++ b/charts/kyverno/templates/background-controller/_helpers.tpl
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 {{- end -}}
 
 {{- define "kyverno.background-controller.image" -}}
-{{- $imageRegistry := default .image.registry .globalRegistry -}}
+{{- $imageRegistry := default (default .image.defaultRegistry .globalRegistry) .image.registry -}}
 {{- if $imageRegistry -}}
   {{ $imageRegistry }}/{{ required "An image repository is required" .image.repository }}:{{ default .defaultTag .image.tag }}
 {{- else -}}
diff --git a/charts/kyverno/templates/cleanup-controller/_helpers.tpl b/charts/kyverno/templates/cleanup-controller/_helpers.tpl
index f8da54e192..1804291d39 100644
--- a/charts/kyverno/templates/cleanup-controller/_helpers.tpl
+++ b/charts/kyverno/templates/cleanup-controller/_helpers.tpl
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 {{- end -}}
 
 {{- define "kyverno.cleanup-controller.image" -}}
-{{- $imageRegistry := default .image.registry .globalRegistry -}}
+{{- $imageRegistry := default (default .image.defaultRegistry .globalRegistry) .image.registry -}}
 {{- if $imageRegistry -}}
   {{ $imageRegistry }}/{{ required "An image repository is required" .image.repository }}:{{ default .defaultTag .image.tag }}
 {{- else -}}
diff --git a/charts/kyverno/templates/reports-controller/_helpers.tpl b/charts/kyverno/templates/reports-controller/_helpers.tpl
index 2cf441df6d..fe8e41e8ad 100644
--- a/charts/kyverno/templates/reports-controller/_helpers.tpl
+++ b/charts/kyverno/templates/reports-controller/_helpers.tpl
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 {{- end -}}
 
 {{- define "kyverno.reports-controller.image" -}}
-{{- $imageRegistry := default .image.registry .globalRegistry -}}
+{{- $imageRegistry := default (default .image.defaultRegistry .globalRegistry) .image.registry -}}
 {{- if $imageRegistry -}}
   {{ $imageRegistry }}/{{ required "An image repository is required" .image.repository }}:{{ default .defaultTag .image.tag }}
 {{- else -}}
diff --git a/charts/kyverno/values.yaml b/charts/kyverno/values.yaml
index b2b3d74725..9065d9c0f7 100644
--- a/charts/kyverno/values.yaml
+++ b/charts/kyverno/values.yaml
@@ -118,7 +118,8 @@ crds:
 
     image:
       # -- (string) Image registry
-      registry: ghcr.io
+      registry: ~
+      defaultRegistry: ghcr.io
       # -- (string) Image repository
       repository: kyverno/kyverno-cli
       # -- (string) Image tag
@@ -957,7 +958,8 @@ admissionController:
 
     image:
       # -- Image registry
-      registry: ghcr.io
+      registry: ~
+      defaultRegistry: ghcr.io
       # -- Image repository
       repository: kyverno/kyvernopre
       # -- (string) Image tag
@@ -1003,7 +1005,8 @@ admissionController:
 
     image:
       # -- Image registry
-      registry: ghcr.io
+      registry: ~
+      defaultRegistry: ghcr.io
       # -- Image repository
       repository: kyverno/kyverno
       # -- (string) Image tag
@@ -1220,7 +1223,8 @@ backgroundController:
 
   image:
     # -- Image registry
-    registry: ghcr.io
+    registry: ~
+    defaultRegistry: ghcr.io
     # -- Image repository
     repository: kyverno/background-controller
     # -- Image tag
@@ -1486,7 +1490,8 @@ cleanupController:
 
   image:
     # -- Image registry
-    registry: ghcr.io
+    registry: ~
+    defaultRegistry: ghcr.io
     # -- Image repository
     repository: kyverno/cleanup-controller
     # -- (string) Image tag
@@ -1802,7 +1807,8 @@ reportsController:
 
   image:
     # -- Image registry
-    registry: ghcr.io
+    registry: ~
+    defaultRegistry: ghcr.io
     # -- Image repository
     repository: kyverno/reports-controller
     # -- (string) Image tag