diff --git a/components/13-ironic/aio-values.yaml b/components/13-ironic/aio-values.yaml
index 8b2d45710..86f45fa81 100644
--- a/components/13-ironic/aio-values.yaml
+++ b/components/13-ironic/aio-values.yaml
@@ -89,6 +89,13 @@ dependencies:
           service: oslo_db
         - endpoint: internal
           service: oslo_messaging
+    # (nicholas.kuechler) The upstream helm values have ironic-db-init
+    # as a dependency for db_sync, but we have job_db_init false so
+    # ironic-db-init never gets created, and this dependency won't pass.
+    # unset it, so that ironic-db-init is no longer listed in it.
+    # https://opendev.org/openstack/openstack-helm/src/branch/master/ironic/values.yaml#L310-L312
+    db_sync:
+      jobs:
 
 manifests:
   job_db_init: false