diff --git a/hack/local-up-cluster.sh b/hack/local-up-cluster.sh
index 16713a9d77..606e968031 100755
--- a/hack/local-up-cluster.sh
+++ b/hack/local-up-cluster.sh
@@ -200,6 +200,7 @@ API_SECURE_PORT=${API_SECURE_PORT:-6443}
 API_HOST=${API_HOST:-localhost}
 API_HOST_IP=${API_HOST_IP:-"127.0.0.1"}
 API_BIND_ADDR=${API_BIND_ADDR:-"0.0.0.0"}
+EXTERNAL_HOSTNAME=${EXTERNAL_HOSTNAME:-localhost}
 
 KUBELET_HOST=${KUBELET_HOST:-"127.0.0.1"}
 # By default only allow CORS for requests on localhost
@@ -513,6 +514,7 @@ function start_apiserver {
       --etcd-servers="http://${ETCD_HOST}:${ETCD_PORT}" \
       --service-cluster-ip-range="${SERVICE_CLUSTER_IP_RANGE}" \
       --feature-gates="${FEATURE_GATES}" \
+      --external-hostname="${EXTERNAL_HOSTNAME}" \
       --cloud-provider="${CLOUD_PROVIDER}" \
       --cloud-config="${CLOUD_CONFIG}" \
       --requestheader-username-headers=X-Remote-User \
diff --git a/pkg/kubeapiserver/options/cloudprovider.go b/pkg/kubeapiserver/options/cloudprovider.go
index cc7775c5f3..f1e5997624 100644
--- a/pkg/kubeapiserver/options/cloudprovider.go
+++ b/pkg/kubeapiserver/options/cloudprovider.go
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
 
+	"github.com/golang/glog"
 	"github.com/spf13/pflag"
 
 	"k8s.io/api/core/v1"
@@ -55,6 +56,8 @@ func (s *CloudProviderOptions) DefaultExternalHost(genericoptions *genericoption
 	}
 
 	if cloudprovider.IsCloudProvider(s.CloudProvider) {
+		glog.Info("--external-hostname was not specified. Trying to get it from the cloud provider.")
+
 		cloud, err := cloudprovider.InitCloudProvider(s.CloudProvider, s.CloudConfigFile)
 		if err != nil {
 			return fmt.Errorf("%q cloud provider could not be initialized: %v", s.CloudProvider, err)