diff --git a/chart/templates/deployment-django.yaml b/chart/templates/deployment-django.yaml
index 557db4180399a6c0557250332b35beb7a5644c2c..5a4d54fffd4bb033b41c562171723a86e5dbdd74 100644
--- a/chart/templates/deployment-django.yaml
+++ b/chart/templates/deployment-django.yaml
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ spec:
 #        command: ["/docker-entrypoint.sh", "gunicorn", "--bind", ":8000", "ippisite.wsgi:application", "--threads", "4"]
         env:
           - name: DJANGO_DEBUG
-            value: "true"
+            value: {{ .Values.django.debug | quote }}
           - name: POSTGRES_HOST
             value: {{ printf "%s-postgresql" .Release.Name }}{{- if .Values.postgresqlBackend.bitnami.enabled }}bitnami{{end}}
           - name: POSTGRES_DB
diff --git a/chart/values.ippidb-dev.yaml b/chart/values.ippidb-dev.yaml
index 9d8310e3040a9f2dcb4d3efdc66cf922949e4a21..f6932094953814b903bbd06a11016b0bc6c6510e 100644
--- a/chart/values.ippidb-dev.yaml
+++ b/chart/values.ippidb-dev.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 # this file overwrites default settings from values.yaml to fit into the dev namespaces
 django:
+  debug: true
   resources:
     requests:
       ephemeral-storage: "0"
diff --git a/chart/values.yaml b/chart/values.yaml
index 6c633a0b1450e50d96dcc1e43a2db7aaed815792..e198e1d790740e117aa3766531b16302c2f04e89 100644
--- a/chart/values.yaml
+++ b/chart/values.yaml
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ ingress:
 
 django:
   name: ippidb
+  debug: false
   persistence:
     size: 130Gi
     enabled: true