diff --git a/docs/user-guide/quick-start.md b/docs/user-guide/quick-start.md
index 913614ac2e..78e43eb1ce 100644
--- a/docs/user-guide/quick-start.md
+++ b/docs/user-guide/quick-start.md
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ To expose your service to the public internet, run:
 $ kubectl expose deployment my-nginx --target-port=80 --type=LoadBalancer
 service "my-nginx" exposed
 ```
+Note: The type, LoadBalancer, is highly dependent upon the underlying platform that Kubernetes is running on. If your cloud provider doesn't have a load balancer implementation (e.g. OpenStack) for Kubernetes, you can simply use the allocated [NodePort](http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/services/#type-nodeport) as a rudimentary form of load balancing across your endpoints.
 
 You can see that they are running by: