diff --git a/cluster/gce/config-default.sh b/cluster/gce/config-default.sh
index 4ec0c0178fe..d30f4fc1c76 100755
--- a/cluster/gce/config-default.sh
+++ b/cluster/gce/config-default.sh
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ if [[ "${ENABLE_CLUSTER_AUTOSCALER}" == "true" ]]; then
 fi
 
 # Optional: Enable Rescheduler
-ENABLE_RESCHEDULER="${KUBE_ENABLE_RESCHEDULER:-false}"
+ENABLE_RESCHEDULER="${KUBE_ENABLE_RESCHEDULER:-true}"
 
 # Admission Controllers to invoke prior to persisting objects in cluster
 # If we included ResourceQuota, we should keep it at the end of the list to prevent incremeting quota usage prematurely.
diff --git a/cluster/gce/config-test.sh b/cluster/gce/config-test.sh
index 3dd2ea0e0ba..237d3ff7157 100755
--- a/cluster/gce/config-test.sh
+++ b/cluster/gce/config-test.sh
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ if [[ "${ENABLE_CLUSTER_AUTOSCALER}" == "true" ]]; then
 fi
 
 # Optional: Enable Rescheduler
-ENABLE_RESCHEDULER="${KUBE_ENABLE_RESCHEDULER:-false}"
+ENABLE_RESCHEDULER="${KUBE_ENABLE_RESCHEDULER:-true}"
 
 # If we included ResourceQuota, we should keep it at the end of the list to prevent incremeting quota usage prematurely.
 ADMISSION_CONTROL="${KUBE_ADMISSION_CONTROL:-NamespaceLifecycle,LimitRanger,ServiceAccount,PersistentVolumeLabel,DefaultStorageClass,ResourceQuota}"