diff --git a/manifests/complete-postgres-manifest.yaml b/manifests/complete-postgres-manifest.yaml
index b8f8d4906..68bda81cf 100644
--- a/manifests/complete-postgres-manifest.yaml
+++ b/manifests/complete-postgres-manifest.yaml
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ spec:
     zalando:
     - superuser
     - createdb
-  # enableMasterLoadBalancer: true
-  # enableReplicaLoadBalancer: true 
+  enableMasterLoadBalancer: true
+  enableReplicaLoadBalancer: true 
   allowedSourceRanges: # load balancers' source ranges for both master and replica services
   - 127.0.0.1/32
   databases:
diff --git a/manifests/configmap.yaml b/manifests/configmap.yaml
index be3fddf3b..49ec872e9 100644
--- a/manifests/configmap.yaml
+++ b/manifests/configmap.yaml
@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ data:
   workers: "4"
   # turn on/off load balancers for all Postgres clusters managed by the operator
   # LB settings in cluster manifests take priority over these settings
-  # enable_master_load_balancer: "true"
-  # enable_replica_load_balancer: "true"
+  enable_master_load_balancer: "true"
+  enable_replica_load_balancer: "false"
   api_port: "8080"
   ring_log_lines: "100"
   cluster_history_entries: "1000"
diff --git a/pkg/util/config/config.go b/pkg/util/config/config.go
index 2127e6038..0e653ce0b 100644
--- a/pkg/util/config/config.go
+++ b/pkg/util/config/config.go
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ type Config struct {
 	EnableTeamsAPI            bool   `name:"enable_teams_api" default:"true"`
 	EnableTeamSuperuser       bool   `name:"enable_team_superuser" default:"false"`
 	TeamAdminRole             string `name:"team_admin_role" default:"admin"`
-	EnableMasterLoadBalancer  bool   `name:"enable_master_load_balancer" default:"false"`
+	EnableMasterLoadBalancer  bool   `name:"enable_master_load_balancer" default:"true"`
 	EnableReplicaLoadBalancer bool   `name:"enable_replica_load_balancer" default:"false"`
 	// deprecated and kept for backward compatibility
 	EnableLoadBalancer       *bool             `name:"enable_load_balancer" default:"true"`