diff --git a/pkg/action/install.go b/pkg/action/install.go
index 292a7ec27..07149e3e9 100644
--- a/pkg/action/install.go
+++ b/pkg/action/install.go
@@ -453,6 +453,10 @@ func (c *Configuration) renderResources(ch *chart.Chart, values chartutil.Values
 		return hs, b, "", err
 	}
 
+	for _, f := range ch.Manifests {
+		files[f.Name] = string(f.Data)
+	}
+
 	// NOTES.txt gets rendered like all the other files, but because it's not a hook nor a resource,
 	// pull it out of here into a separate file so that we can actually use the output of the rendered
 	// text file. We have to spin through this map because the file contains path information, so we
diff --git a/pkg/chart/chart.go b/pkg/chart/chart.go
index c3e99eae6..92551e095 100644
--- a/pkg/chart/chart.go
+++ b/pkg/chart/chart.go
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ type Chart struct {
 	Lock *Lock `json:"lock"`
 	// Templates for this chart.
 	Templates []*File `json:"templates"`
+	// Manifests which won't be passed through the rendering engine.
+	Manifests []*File `json:"manifests"`
 	// Values are default config for this chart.
 	Values map[string]interface{} `json:"values"`
 	// Schema is an optional JSON schema for imposing structure on Values