diff --git a/internal/go-configmap/cli.go b/internal/go-configmap/cli.go
index d467cfc9c32..23fb2e147d9 100644
--- a/internal/go-configmap/cli.go
+++ b/internal/go-configmap/cli.go
@@ -27,6 +27,17 @@ func (c *Map) SetFromCLIArgs(key string, args ...string) error {
 		return nil
 	}
 
+	// Some args might be coming from env vars that are specifying multiple values
+	// in a single string. We expand those cases by splitting every args with whitespace
+	// Example: args=["e1 e2", "e3"] -> args=["e1","e2","e3"]
+	argsExpantion := func(values []string) []string {
+		result := []string{}
+		for _, v := range values {
+			result = append(result, strings.Split(v, " ")...)
+		}
+		return result
+	}
+	args = argsExpantion(args)
 	// in case of schemaless configuration, we don't know the type of the setting
 	// we will save it as a string or array of strings
 	if len(c.schema) == 0 {
diff --git a/internal/go-configmap/configuration_test.go b/internal/go-configmap/configuration_test.go
index c9c025cb3ce..5dbb10ecd6f 100644
--- a/internal/go-configmap/configuration_test.go
+++ b/internal/go-configmap/configuration_test.go
@@ -79,10 +79,22 @@ func TestApplyEnvVars(t *testing.T) {
 	c.Set("foo", "bar")
 	c.Set("fooz.bar", "baz")
 	c.Set("answer", 42)
+	c.Set("array", []string{})
 	c.InjectEnvVars([]string{"APP_FOO=app-bar", "APP_FOOZ_BAR=app-baz"}, "APP")
 	require.Equal(t, "app-bar", c.Get("foo"))
 	require.Equal(t, "app-baz", c.Get("fooz.bar"))
 	require.Equal(t, 42, c.Get("answer"))
+
+	c.InjectEnvVars([]string{"APP_ARRAY=e1 e2 e3"}, "APP")
+	require.Equal(t, []string{"e1", "e2", "e3"}, c.GetStringSlice("array"))
+
+	// Test env containing array values with typed schema
+	{
+		m := configmap.New()
+		m.SetKeyTypeSchema("array", []string{})
+		m.InjectEnvVars([]string{"APP_ARRAY=e1 e2 e3"}, "APP")
+		require.Equal(t, []string{"e1", "e2", "e3"}, m.GetStringSlice("array"))
+	}
 }
 
 func TestMerge(t *testing.T) {