diff --git a/kube-fluentd-operator.yaml b/kube-fluentd-operator.yaml
index 9676a2b64df..4e161f96666 100644
--- a/kube-fluentd-operator.yaml
+++ b/kube-fluentd-operator.yaml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 package:
   name: kube-fluentd-operator
   version: 1.17.4
-  epoch: 0
+  epoch: 1
   description: foo
   copyright:
     - license: MIT
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ environment:
       - openssl-dev
       - gpg
       - wget
+      - bash
+      - go
       # - shadow
 
 vars:
@@ -53,8 +55,6 @@ pipeline:
       mkdir -p ${{targets.destdir}}/etc/fluent/plugin
       mv ./plugins/* ${{targets.destdir}}/etc/fluent/plugin
 
-      mkdir -p ${{targets.destdir}}/usr/bin
-
       # a forked version of fluent-plugin-google-cloud is used to align the fluentd version
       # cloning here as CI checks fail when using the git-checkout pipeline
       cd ..
@@ -67,6 +67,13 @@ pipeline:
 
   - uses: strip
 
+  - runs: |
+      mkdir -p ${{targets.destdir}}/usr/bin
+      cd config-reloader
+      make build VERSION=${{package.version}}
+      mv config-reloader ${{targets.destdir}}/usr/bin/
+      mv ./templates ${{targets.destdir}}/etc/fluent/
+
 subpackages:
   - name: kube-fluentd-operator-oci-entrypoint
     description: Entrypoint for using kube-fluentd-operator
@@ -92,9 +99,12 @@ subpackages:
     pipeline:
       - runs: |
           mkdir -p ${{targets.subpkgdir}}/fluentd/etc
+          mkdir -p ${{targets.subpkgdir}}/etc/fluent/templates
+
           ln -sf /var/lib/kube-fluentd-operator/initdb/entrypoint.sh ${{targets.subpkgdir}}/fluentd/entrypoint.sh
-          ln -sf /etc/fluent/fluent.conf ${{targets.subpkgdir}}/fluentd/etc/failsafe.conf
+          ln -sf /etc/fluent/fluent.conf ${{targets.subpkgdir}}/fluentd/failsafe.conf
           ln -sf /etc/fluent/plugin ${{targets.subpkgdir}}/fluentd/plugins
+          ln -sf /templates ${{targets.subpkgdir}}/etc/fluent/templates
 
 update:
   enabled: true