diff --git a/controllers/nginx/configuration.md b/controllers/nginx/configuration.md
index c13ea11a8..cbdeea2e3 100644
--- a/controllers/nginx/configuration.md
+++ b/controllers/nginx/configuration.md
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ There are 3 ways to customize NGINX:
 
 It is possible to customize the defaults in NGINX using a ConfigMap.
 
-Please check the [custom configuration](examples/custom-configuration/README.md) example.
+Please check the [custom configuration](examples/customization/custom-configuration/nginx/README.md) example.
 
 #### Annotations
 
diff --git a/examples/customization/custom-configuration/nginx/README.md b/examples/customization/custom-configuration/nginx/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..93acf6737
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/customization/custom-configuration/nginx/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+
+Using a [ConfigMap](https://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/configmap/) is possible to customize the NGINX configuration
+
+For example, if we want to change the timeouts we need to create a ConfigMap:
+
+```
+$ cat nginx-load-balancer-conf.yaml
+apiVersion: v1
+data:
+  proxy-connect-timeout: "10"
+  proxy-read-timeout: "120"
+  proxy-send-timeout: "120"
+kind: ConfigMap
+metadata:
+  name: nginx-load-balancer-conf
+```
+
+```
+$ kubectl create -f nginx-load-balancer-conf.yaml
+```
+
+Please check the example `nginx-custom-configuration.yaml`
+
+If the Configmap it is updated, NGINX will be reloaded with the new configuration.
diff --git a/examples/customization/custom-configuration/nginx/nginx-custom-configuration.yaml b/examples/customization/custom-configuration/nginx/nginx-custom-configuration.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a6546ddf1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/customization/custom-configuration/nginx/nginx-custom-configuration.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: nginx-ingress-controller
+  labels:
+    k8s-app: nginx-ingress-controller
+  namespace: kube-system
+spec:
+  replicas: 1
+  template:
+    metadata:
+      labels:
+        k8s-app: nginx-ingress-controller
+      annotations:
+        prometheus.io/port: '10254'
+        prometheus.io/scrape: 'true'
+    spec:
+      # hostNetwork makes it possible to use ipv6 and to preserve the source IP correctly regardless of docker configuration
+      # however, it is not a hard dependency of the nginx-ingress-controller itself and it may cause issues if port 10254 already is taken on the host
+      # that said, since hostPort is broken on CNI (https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/31307) we have to use hostNetwork where CNI is used
+      # like with kubeadm
+      # hostNetwork: true
+      terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 60
+      containers:
+      - image: gcr.io/google_containers/nginx-ingress-controller:0.9.0-beta.3
+        name: nginx-ingress-controller
+        readinessProbe:
+          httpGet:
+            path: /healthz
+            port: 10254
+            scheme: HTTP
+        livenessProbe:
+          httpGet:
+            path: /healthz
+            port: 10254
+            scheme: HTTP
+          initialDelaySeconds: 10
+          timeoutSeconds: 1
+        ports:
+        - containerPort: 80
+          hostPort: 80
+        - containerPort: 443
+          hostPort: 443
+        env:
+          - name: POD_NAME
+            valueFrom:
+              fieldRef:
+                fieldPath: metadata.name
+          - name: POD_NAMESPACE
+            valueFrom:
+              fieldRef:
+                fieldPath: metadata.namespace
+        args:
+        - /nginx-ingress-controller
+        - --default-backend-service=$(POD_NAMESPACE)/default-http-backend
+        - --configmap=$(POD_NAMESPACE)/nginx-custom-configuration
diff --git a/examples/customization/custom-configuration/nginx/nginx-load-balancer-conf.yaml b/examples/customization/custom-configuration/nginx/nginx-load-balancer-conf.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..afd63d06d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/customization/custom-configuration/nginx/nginx-load-balancer-conf.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+apiVersion: v1
+data:
+  proxy-connect-timeout: "10"
+  proxy-read-timeout: "120"
+  proxy-send-timeout: "120"
+kind: ConfigMap
+metadata:
+  name: nginx-custom-configuration