diff --git a/charts/localstack/templates/deployment.yaml b/charts/localstack/templates/deployment.yaml
index ca2e668..c5a904d 100644
--- a/charts/localstack/templates/deployment.yaml
+++ b/charts/localstack/templates/deployment.yaml
@@ -35,6 +35,9 @@ spec:
       serviceAccountName: {{ include "localstack.serviceAccountName" . }}
       securityContext:
         {{- toYaml .Values.podSecurityContext | nindent 8 }}
+      {{- if .Values.dnsPolicy }}
+      dnsPolicy: {{ .Values.dnsPolicy }}
+      {{- end }}
       containers:
         - name: {{ .Chart.Name }}
           securityContext:
diff --git a/charts/localstack/test-values.yaml b/charts/localstack/test-values.yaml
index 24f3409..9b76c8b 100644
--- a/charts/localstack/test-values.yaml
+++ b/charts/localstack/test-values.yaml
@@ -9,6 +9,11 @@ command:
   - -c
   - echo 'ulimit -Sn 32767' >> /root/.bashrc && echo 'ulimit -Su 16383' >> /root/.bashrc && docker-entrypoint.sh
 
+## @param dnsPolicy Allows you to set the Pod dnsPolicy.
+## The default is actually ClusterFirst. Uncomment this to avoid a circular DNS path that will
+## cause the LocalStack instance to crash.
+## Ref: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/dns-pod-service/#pod-s-dns-policy
+dnsPolicy: "Default"
 
 # enable startup scripts, create a startup script which creates an SQS queue
 enableStartupScripts: true
diff --git a/charts/localstack/values.yaml b/charts/localstack/values.yaml
index 72357a4..d4f4f8c 100644
--- a/charts/localstack/values.yaml
+++ b/charts/localstack/values.yaml
@@ -66,6 +66,11 @@ debug: false
 ##
 command: []
 
+## @param dnsPolicy Allows you to set the Pod dnsPolicy.
+## The default is actually ClusterFirst. Uncomment this to avoid a circular DNS path that will
+## cause the LocalStack instance to crash.
+## Ref: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/dns-pod-service/#pod-s-dns-policy
+# dnsPolicy: "Default"
 
 startServices: ""
 # Comma-separated list of AWS CLI service names which are the only ones allowed to be used (other services will then by default be prevented from being loaded).