diff --git a/docs/_releasenotes/2196.change.flux2-updated-to-2.17.2 b/docs/_releasenotes/2196.change.flux2-updated-to-2.17.2
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d34b72c604869eb98133a85bedc0d253bcbbc9cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/_releasenotes/2196.change.flux2-updated-to-2.17.2
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Updated default version of helm chart flux2 of https://github.com/fluxcd-community/helm-charts from 2.17.0 to 2.17.2
diff --git a/docs/user/reference/options/yk8s.k8s-service-layer.fluxcd.rst b/docs/user/reference/options/yk8s.k8s-service-layer.fluxcd.rst
index d476da14092e2a4389d1ffe66c9dc56518fa28d3..8924319ee45f34e2d03641164e80cb9d7426a1b8 100644
--- a/docs/user/reference/options/yk8s.k8s-service-layer.fluxcd.rst
+++ b/docs/user/reference/options/yk8s.k8s-service-layer.fluxcd.rst
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ Helm chart version of FluxCD to be deployed.
 
 **Default:**::
 
-  "2.17.0"
+  "2.17.2"
 
 
 **Declared by**
diff --git a/nix/yk8s/k8s-supplements/fluxcd.nix b/nix/yk8s/k8s-supplements/fluxcd.nix
index 04b7b49e5ee986ec946e063f8e257152e7367916..a521372daedd55722fcbd204c4bf4f2bc0bd930d 100644
--- a/nix/yk8s/k8s-supplements/fluxcd.nix
+++ b/nix/yk8s/k8s-supplements/fluxcd.nix
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ in {
       '';
       type = types.yk8s.oci.imageTag;
       # renovate: datasource=helm depName=flux2 registryUrl=https://fluxcd-community.github.io/helm-charts
-      default = "2.17.0";
+      default = "2.17.2";
     };
     namespace = mkOption {
       description = ''