diff --git a/deploy/eck-operator/templates/statefulset.yaml b/deploy/eck-operator/templates/statefulset.yaml
index 5c1fd034d0..4358e5f92c 100644
--- a/deploy/eck-operator/templates/statefulset.yaml
+++ b/deploy/eck-operator/templates/statefulset.yaml
@@ -117,6 +117,10 @@ spec:
         {{- with .Values.volumes }}
           {{- toYaml . | nindent 8 }}
         {{- end }}
+      {{- if .Values.webhook.hostNetwork }}
+      hostNetwork: true
+      dnsPolicy: ClusterFirstWithHostNet
+      {{- end }}
       {{- with .Values.nodeSelector }}
       nodeSelector:
         {{- toYaml . | nindent 12 }}
diff --git a/deploy/eck-operator/values.yaml b/deploy/eck-operator/values.yaml
index aa2ddd2f81..fba1f672cf 100644
--- a/deploy/eck-operator/values.yaml
+++ b/deploy/eck-operator/values.yaml
@@ -119,6 +119,10 @@ webhook:
   # objectSelector corresponds to the objectSelector property of the webhook.
   # Setting this restricts the webhook to act only on objects that match the selector.
   objectSelector: {}
+  # HostNetwork allows a Pod to use the Node network namespace.
+  # This is required to allow for communication with the kube API when using some alternate CNIs in conjunction with webhook enabled.
+  # CAUTION: Proceed at your own risk. This setting has security concerns such as allowing malicious users to access workloads running on the host.
+  hostNetwork: false
 
 softMultiTenancy:
   # enabled determines whether the operator is installed with soft multi-tenancy extensions.
@@ -235,4 +239,3 @@ global:
   createOperatorNamespace: true
   # kubeVersion is the effective Kubernetes version we target when generating the all-in-one.yaml.
   kubeVersion: 1.21.0
-