diff --git a/docs/admin/deploy/kubernetes/index.mdx b/docs/admin/deploy/kubernetes/index.mdx
index 3809a4fa2..2ac9f5a27 100644
--- a/docs/admin/deploy/kubernetes/index.mdx
+++ b/docs/admin/deploy/kubernetes/index.mdx
@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ data:
   password: ""
   port: ""
   user: ""
+  pgsslmode: "require" # optional, enable if using SSL
 ---
 apiVersion: v1
 kind: Secret
@@ -115,6 +116,7 @@ data:
   password: ""
   port: ""
   user: ""
+  pgsslmode: "require" # optional, enable if using SSL
 ---
 apiVersion: v1
 kind: Secret
@@ -127,6 +129,7 @@ data:
   password: ""
   port: ""
   user: ""
+  pgsslmode: "require" # optional, enable if using SSL
 ```
 
 The above Secrets should be deployed to the same namespace as the existing Sourcegraph deployment.
@@ -163,6 +166,7 @@ pgsql:
     user: "new-user"
     password: "new-password"
     port: "5432"
+    pgsslmode: "require" # optional, enable if using SSL
 ```
 
 #### Using external Redis instances