diff --git a/kubernetes/aai/components/aai-sparky-be/resources/config/application/application-resources.properties b/kubernetes/aai/components/aai-sparky-be/resources/config/application/application-resources.properties
index 8bd4494..7c82d1f 100644
--- a/kubernetes/aai/components/aai-sparky-be/resources/config/application/application-resources.properties
+++ b/kubernetes/aai/components/aai-sparky-be/resources/config/application/application-resources.properties
@@ -25,6 +25,6 @@
 resources.client-cert={{ .Values.certInitializer.credsPath }}/{{ .Values.certInitializer.fqi_namespace }}.p12
 resources.client-cert-password=${KEYSTORE_PASSWORD}
 {{ else }}
-resources.port=8080
+resources.port=80
 resources.authType=HTTP_NOAUTH
 {{ end }}
diff --git a/kubernetes/aai/components/aai-sparky-be/templates/deployment.yaml b/kubernetes/aai/components/aai-sparky-be/templates/deployment.yaml
index d23d9cf..bb0b9bb 100644
--- a/kubernetes/aai/components/aai-sparky-be/templates/deployment.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes/aai/components/aai-sparky-be/templates/deployment.yaml
@@ -140,18 +140,19 @@
           subPath: logback.xml
         ports:
         - containerPort: {{ .Values.service.internalPort }}
+        - containerPort: {{ .Values.service.internalPlainPort }}
         # disable liveness probe when breakpoints set in debugger
         # so K8s doesn't restart unresponsive container
         {{- if eq .Values.liveness.enabled true }}
         livenessProbe:
           tcpSocket:
-            port: {{ .Values.service.internalPort }}
+            port: {{ (eq "true" (include "common.needTLS" .)) | ternary .Values.service.internalPort .Values.service.internalPlainPort }}
           initialDelaySeconds: {{ .Values.liveness.initialDelaySeconds }}
           periodSeconds: {{ .Values.liveness.periodSeconds }}
         {{ end -}}
         readinessProbe:
           tcpSocket:
-            port: {{ .Values.service.internalPort }}
+            port: {{ (eq "true" (include "common.needTLS" .)) | ternary .Values.service.internalPort .Values.service.internalPlainPort }}
           initialDelaySeconds: {{ .Values.readiness.initialDelaySeconds }}
           periodSeconds: {{ .Values.readiness.periodSeconds }}
         resources:
diff --git a/kubernetes/aai/components/aai-sparky-be/templates/service.yaml b/kubernetes/aai/components/aai-sparky-be/templates/service.yaml
index 457b357..9e3ffd6 100644
--- a/kubernetes/aai/components/aai-sparky-be/templates/service.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes/aai/components/aai-sparky-be/templates/service.yaml
@@ -25,16 +25,13 @@
     release: {{ include "common.release" . }}
     heritage: {{ .Release.Service }}
 spec:
-  type: {{ .Values.service.type }}
   ports:
-  {{if eq .Values.service.type "NodePort" -}}
-  - port: {{ .Values.service.internalPort }}
+  - name: {{ .Values.service.portName }}{{ if (include "common.needTLS" .) }}s{{ end }}
+    port: {{ .Values.service.externalPort }}
+    targetPort: {{ (eq "true" (include "common.needTLS" .)) | ternary .Values.service.internalPort .Values.service.internalPlainPort }}
+    {{- if eq .Values.service.type "NodePort" }}
     nodePort: {{ .Values.global.nodePortPrefix | default .Values.nodePortPrefix }}{{ .Values.service.nodePort }}
-    name: {{ .Values.service.portName }}{{ (eq "true" (include "common.needTLS" .)) | ternary "s" "" }}
-  {{- else -}}
-  - port: {{ .Values.service.internalPort }}
-    name: {{ .Values.service.portName }}{{ ternary "s" "" (eq "true" (include "common.needTLS" .)) }}
-  {{- end }}
+    {{- end }}
+  type: {{ .Values.service.type }}
   selector:
     app: {{ include "common.name" . }}
-    release: {{ include "common.release" . }}
diff --git a/kubernetes/aai/components/aai-sparky-be/values.yaml b/kubernetes/aai/components/aai-sparky-be/values.yaml
index b4cea4c..a8896e0 100644
--- a/kubernetes/aai/components/aai-sparky-be/values.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes/aai/components/aai-sparky-be/values.yaml
@@ -114,7 +114,9 @@
 service:
   type: NodePort
   portName: http
+  externalPort: 8000
   internalPort: 8000
+  internalPlainPort: 9517
   nodePort: 20
 
 ingress: