diff --git a/ingress-nginx/overlay/kustomization.yaml b/ingress-nginx/overlay/kustomization.yaml
index 93aa2ed2..96d9d614 100644
--- a/ingress-nginx/overlay/kustomization.yaml
+++ b/ingress-nginx/overlay/kustomization.yaml
@@ -25,3 +25,13 @@ kind: Kustomization
 
 resources:
   - ../base
+
+patches:
+  # enable this for dev / staging environments to use internal IP load balancer only
+  # if enabling this later you'll need to delete the load balancer so it gets recreated correctly
+  #
+  # XXX: beware this is a very disruptive operation if anybody is using the nginx ingress on the cluster
+  #
+  #   kubectl delete svc -n ingress-nginx ingress-nginx-controller
+  #
+  #- internal-loadbalancer-service.patch.yaml