diff --git a/charts/kyverno/Chart.yaml b/charts/kyverno/Chart.yaml
index e278ce49b2..653d3c97e2 100644
--- a/charts/kyverno/Chart.yaml
+++ b/charts/kyverno/Chart.yaml
@@ -77,6 +77,8 @@ annotations:
       description: missing image pull policy missing in a couple of deployments
     - kind: added
       description: added TUF flags for custom sigstore deployments
+    - kind: added
+      description: allow setting admission controller replica count to 2
 dependencies:
   - name: grafana
     version: "0.0.0"
diff --git a/charts/kyverno/templates/NOTES.txt b/charts/kyverno/templates/NOTES.txt
index 5eb551ec51..356e69e67a 100644
--- a/charts/kyverno/templates/NOTES.txt
+++ b/charts/kyverno/templates/NOTES.txt
@@ -22,9 +22,9 @@ The following components have been installed in your cluster:
 {{- end }}
 
 {{ if not .Values.admissionController.replicas }}
-⚠️  WARNING: Setting the admission controller replica count below 3 means Kyverno is not running in high availability mode.
-{{- else if lt (int .Values.admissionController.replicas) 3 }}
-⚠️  WARNING: Setting the admission controller replica count below 3 means Kyverno is not running in high availability mode.
+⚠️  WARNING: Setting the admission controller replica count below 2 means Kyverno is not running in high availability mode.
+{{- else if lt (int .Values.admissionController.replicas) 2 }}
+⚠️  WARNING: Setting the admission controller replica count below 2 means Kyverno is not running in high availability mode.
 {{- end }}
 
 {{- if semverCompare "<1.21.0" .Capabilities.KubeVersion.Version }}
diff --git a/charts/kyverno/templates/validate.yaml b/charts/kyverno/templates/validate.yaml
index fab8dd8de6..94469fba8d 100644
--- a/charts/kyverno/templates/validate.yaml
+++ b/charts/kyverno/templates/validate.yaml
@@ -2,12 +2,6 @@
   {{- fail "mode is not supported anymore, please remove it from your release and use admissionController.replicas instead." -}}
 {{- end -}}
 
-{{- if .Values.admissionController.replicas -}}
-  {{- if eq (int .Values.admissionController.replicas) 2 -}}
-    {{- fail "Kyverno does not support running with 2 replicas. For a highly-available deployment, select 3 replicas or for standalone select 1 replica." -}}
-  {{- end -}}
-{{- end -}}
-
 {{- if eq (include "kyverno.namespace" .) "kube-system" -}}
   {{- fail "Kyverno cannot be installed in namespace kube-system." -}}
 {{- end -}}