diff --git a/deploy/kubernetes/production/database.yaml b/deploy/kubernetes/production/database.yaml
index a35a36a..4b17793 100644
--- a/deploy/kubernetes/production/database.yaml
+++ b/deploy/kubernetes/production/database.yaml
@@ -66,6 +66,13 @@ spec:
   instances: 2
   imageName: ghcr.io/cloudnative-pg/postgresql:18.4-standard-trixie@sha256:4587df73024408f5b2be9b4dd6ba2ccee8c9e5dc0c9a87c274c292291cc8a68c
   imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
+  env:
+    - name: KUBERNETES_SERVICE_HOST
+      valueFrom:
+        fieldRef:
+          fieldPath: spec.nodeName
+    - name: KUBERNETES_SERVICE_PORT
+      value: "6443"
   primaryUpdateStrategy: unsupervised
   primaryUpdateMethod: switchover
   failoverDelay: 0