diff --git a/discovery/discovery_client.go b/discovery/discovery_client.go
index 646820cbc..04b385467 100644
--- a/discovery/discovery_client.go
+++ b/discovery/discovery_client.go
@@ -59,12 +59,14 @@ const (
 	// defaultBurst is the default burst to be used with the discovery client's token bucket rate limiter
 	defaultBurst = 300
 
+	AcceptV1 = runtime.ContentTypeJSON
 	AcceptV1 = runtime.ContentTypeJSON
 	// Aggregated discovery content-type (v2beta1). NOTE: content-type parameters
 	// MUST be ordered (g, v, as) for server in "Accept" header (BUT we are resilient
 	// to ordering when comparing returned values in "Content-Type" header).
-	AcceptV2Beta1 = runtime.ContentTypeJSON + ";" + "g=apidiscovery.k8s.io;v=v2beta1;as=APIGroupDiscoveryList"
-	AcceptV2      = runtime.ContentTypeJSON + ";" + "g=apidiscovery.k8s.io;v=v2;as=APIGroupDiscoveryList"
+	AcceptV2Beta1  = runtime.ContentTypeJSON + ";" + "g=apidiscovery.k8s.io;v=v2beta1;as=APIGroupDiscoveryList"
+	AcceptV2       = runtime.ContentTypeJSON + ";" + "g=apidiscovery.k8s.io;v=v2;as=APIGroupDiscoveryList"
+	AcceptV2NoPeer = runtime.ContentTypeJSON + ";" + "g=apidiscovery.k8s.io;v=v2;as=APIGroupDiscoveryList;profile=nopeer"
 	// Prioritize aggregated discovery by placing first in the order of discovery accept types.
 	acceptDiscoveryFormats = AcceptV2 + "," + AcceptV2Beta1 + "," + AcceptV1
 )
@@ -168,6 +170,11 @@ type DiscoveryClient struct {
 	LegacyPrefix string
 	// Forces the client to request only "unaggregated" (legacy) discovery.
 	UseLegacyDiscovery bool
+	// NoPeerDiscovery will request the "nopeer" profile of aggregated discovery.
+	// This allows a client to get just the discovery documents served by the single apiserver
+	// that it is talking to. This is useful for clients that need to understand the state
+	// of a single apiserver, for example, to validate that the apiserver is ready to serve traffic.
+	NoPeerDiscovery bool
 }
 
 var _ AggregatedDiscoveryInterface = &DiscoveryClient{}
@@ -241,10 +248,7 @@ func (d *DiscoveryClient) downloadLegacy() (
 	map[schema.GroupVersion]*metav1.APIResourceList,
 	map[schema.GroupVersion]error,
 	error) {
-	accept := acceptDiscoveryFormats
-	if d.UseLegacyDiscovery {
-		accept = AcceptV1
-	}
+	accept := selectDiscoveryAcceptHeader(d.UseLegacyDiscovery, d.NoPeerDiscovery)
 	var responseContentType string
 	body, err := d.restClient.Get().
 		AbsPath("/api").
@@ -307,10 +311,7 @@ func (d *DiscoveryClient) downloadAPIs() (
 	map[schema.GroupVersion]*metav1.APIResourceList,
 	map[schema.GroupVersion]error,
 	error) {
-	accept := acceptDiscoveryFormats
-	if d.UseLegacyDiscovery {
-		accept = AcceptV1
-	}
+	accept := selectDiscoveryAcceptHeader(d.UseLegacyDiscovery, d.NoPeerDiscovery)
 	var responseContentType string
 	body, err := d.restClient.Get().
 		AbsPath("/apis").
@@ -351,6 +352,16 @@ func (d *DiscoveryClient) downloadAPIs() (
 	return apiGroupList, resourcesByGV, failedGVs, nil
 }
 
+func selectDiscoveryAcceptHeader(useLegacy, nopeer bool) string {
+	if useLegacy {
+		return AcceptV1
+	}
+	if nopeer {
+		return AcceptV2NoPeer + "," + acceptDiscoveryFormats
+	}
+	return acceptDiscoveryFormats
+}
+
 // ContentTypeIsGVK checks of the content-type string is both
 // "application/json" and matches the provided GVK. An error
 // is returned if the content type string is malformed.