diff --git a/apps/k8s01/nextcloud/database-override.yaml b/apps/k8s01/nextcloud/database-override.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..22974bdced8d8c66d0963517af18473abacda69c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/k8s01/nextcloud/database-override.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+apiVersion: "acid.zalan.do/v1"
+kind: postgresql
+metadata:
+  name: nextcloud-postgres
+  namespace: nextcloud
+spec:
+  numberOfInstances: 2
+  volume:
+    size: 1Gi
diff --git a/apps/k8s01/nextcloud/kustomization.yaml b/apps/k8s01/nextcloud/kustomization.yaml
index 36c1a5e6bb9d0984729c3828b4b509c44c3471e5..f7c10af7a0d48f5ed8ed516421f69490175f6f3d 100644
--- a/apps/k8s01/nextcloud/kustomization.yaml
+++ b/apps/k8s01/nextcloud/kustomization.yaml
@@ -6,3 +6,5 @@ resources:
   - certificate.yaml
   - nextcloud-values.yaml
   - ../../../shared/resourcequotas/default.yaml
+patchesStrategicMerge:
+  - database-override.yaml