diff --git a/docs/deployment/kubernetes.md b/docs/deployment/kubernetes.md
index 9996ffb2..9d5fa13e 100644
--- a/docs/deployment/kubernetes.md
+++ b/docs/deployment/kubernetes.md
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ A guide is available for configuring minikube here:
       --user="$(gcloud config get-value core/account)"
     ```
 
+    Also, ensure any [default load-balancer timeouts within GKE](https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/#timeouts_and_retries) are understood and configured appropriately.
+
 ### Install the `faas-cli`
 
 You can install the OpenFaaS CLI using `brew` or a `curl` script.
diff --git a/docs/deployment/troubleshooting.md b/docs/deployment/troubleshooting.md
index f84d1cd5..9080c8c3 100644
--- a/docs/deployment/troubleshooting.md
+++ b/docs/deployment/troubleshooting.md
@@ -154,6 +154,10 @@ For asynchronous invocations of functions a separate timeout can be configured a
 
 If the `ack_wait` is exceeded the task will not be acknowledge and the queue system will retry the invocation.
 
+### Timeouts - Cloud Service Providers
+
+There are situations where timeout values external to OpenFaaS may impact successful function execution.  A typical scenario is where a cloud platform's load balancer product is fronting the cluster in which OpenFaaS is running.  A common example is when using the [GCP Kubernetes product, GKE](https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/#timeouts_and_retries). 
+
 ## Function execution logs
 
 By default the functions will not log out the result, but just show how long the process took to run and the length of the result in bytes.