diff --git a/vertical-pod-autoscaler/pkg/admission-controller/config.go b/vertical-pod-autoscaler/pkg/admission-controller/config.go
index 4207b94ab57d..2b535055a9a8 100644
--- a/vertical-pod-autoscaler/pkg/admission-controller/config.go
+++ b/vertical-pod-autoscaler/pkg/admission-controller/config.go
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ func configTLS(clientset *kubernetes.Clientset, serverCert, serverKey []byte) *t
 
 // register this webhook admission controller with the kube-apiserver
 // by creating MutatingWebhookConfiguration.
-func selfRegistration(clientset *kubernetes.Clientset, caCert []byte, namespace *string) {
+func selfRegistration(clientset *kubernetes.Clientset, caCert []byte, namespace *string, url string, registerByURL bool) {
 	time.Sleep(10 * time.Second)
 	client := clientset.AdmissionregistrationV1beta1().MutatingWebhookConfigurations()
 	_, err := client.Get(webhookConfigName, metav1.GetOptions{})
@@ -66,6 +66,14 @@ func selfRegistration(clientset *kubernetes.Clientset, caCert []byte, namespace
 			glog.Fatal(err2)
 		}
 	}
+	RegisterClientConfig := v1beta1.WebhookClientConfig{}
+	if !registerByURL {
+		RegisterClientConfig.Service.Name = *namespace
+		RegisterClientConfig.Service.Name = "vpa-webhook"
+	} else {
+		RegisterClientConfig.URL = &url
+	}
+	RegisterClientConfig.CABundle = caCert
 	webhookConfig := &v1beta1.MutatingWebhookConfiguration{
 		ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{
 			Name: webhookConfigName,
@@ -90,13 +98,7 @@ func selfRegistration(clientset *kubernetes.Clientset, caCert []byte, namespace
 							Resources:   []string{"verticalpodautoscalers"},
 						},
 					}},
-				ClientConfig: v1beta1.WebhookClientConfig{
-					Service: &v1beta1.ServiceReference{
-						Namespace: *namespace,
-						Name:      "vpa-webhook",
-					},
-					CABundle: caCert,
-				},
+				ClientConfig: RegisterClientConfig,
 			},
 		},
 	}
diff --git a/vertical-pod-autoscaler/pkg/admission-controller/main.go b/vertical-pod-autoscaler/pkg/admission-controller/main.go
index e2ea9ccbab66..30e4fd8270dc 100644
--- a/vertical-pod-autoscaler/pkg/admission-controller/main.go
+++ b/vertical-pod-autoscaler/pkg/admission-controller/main.go
@@ -48,9 +48,12 @@ var (
 		tlsPrivateKey: flag.String("tls-private-key", "/etc/tls-certs/serverKey.pem", "Path to server certificate key PEM file."),
 	}
 
-	port      = flag.Int("port", 8000, "The port to listen on.")
-	address   = flag.String("address", ":8944", "The address to expose Prometheus metrics.")
-	namespace = os.Getenv("NAMESPACE")
+	port           = flag.Int("port", 8000, "The port to listen on.")
+	address        = flag.String("address", ":8944", "The address to expose Prometheus metrics.")
+	namespace      = os.Getenv("NAMESPACE")
+	webhookAddress = flag.String("webhook-address", "", "Address under which webhook is registered. Used when registerByURL is set to true.")
+	webhookPort    = flag.String("webhook-port", "", "Server Port for Webhook")
+	registerByURL  = flag.Bool("register-by-url", false, "If set to true, admission webhook will be registered by URL (webhookAddress:webhookPort) instead of by service name")
 )
 
 func main() {
@@ -86,6 +89,7 @@ func main() {
 		Addr:      fmt.Sprintf(":%d", *port),
 		TLSConfig: configTLS(clientset, certs.serverCert, certs.serverKey),
 	}
-	go selfRegistration(clientset, certs.caCert, &namespace)
+	url := fmt.Sprintf("%v:%v", webhookAddress, webhookPort)
+	go selfRegistration(clientset, certs.caCert, &namespace, url, *registerByURL)
 	server.ListenAndServeTLS("", "")
 }