In tempo templates:

• compactor/deployment-compactor.yaml
• distributor/deployment-distributor.yaml
• gateway/deployment-gateway.yaml
• ingester/statefulset-ingester.yaml
• metrics-generator/deployment-metrics-generator.yaml
• metrics-generator/statefulset-metrics-generator.yaml
• querier/deployment-querier.yaml
• query-frontend/deployment-query-frontend.yaml

should use {{- include "tempo.podAnnotations" (dict "ctx" . "component" "...") | nindent 8 }} to render annotations and utilize the externalConfigVersion.