diff --git a/cluster/gce/config-default.sh b/cluster/gce/config-default.sh
index 86b0880433d..494a3f17aef 100755
--- a/cluster/gce/config-default.sh
+++ b/cluster/gce/config-default.sh
@@ -107,8 +107,8 @@ ENABLE_CLUSTER_UI="${KUBE_ENABLE_CLUSTER_UI:-true}"
 # Optional: Create autoscaler for cluster's nodes.
 ENABLE_NODE_AUTOSCALER="${KUBE_ENABLE_NODE_AUTOSCALER:-false}"
 if [[ "${ENABLE_NODE_AUTOSCALER}" == "true" ]]; then
-  AUTOSCALER_MIN_NODES="${KUBE_AUTOSCALER_MIN_NODES:-1}"
-  AUTOSCALER_MAX_NODES="${KUBE_AUTOSCALER_MAX_NODES:-${NUM_NODES}}"
+  AUTOSCALER_MIN_NODES="${KUBE_AUTOSCALER_MIN_NODES:-}"
+  AUTOSCALER_MAX_NODES="${KUBE_AUTOSCALER_MAX_NODES:-}"
 fi
 
 # Admission Controllers to invoke prior to persisting objects in cluster
diff --git a/cluster/gce/config-test.sh b/cluster/gce/config-test.sh
index d685efe24e3..d5a8fa17a5b 100755
--- a/cluster/gce/config-test.sh
+++ b/cluster/gce/config-test.sh
@@ -128,9 +128,8 @@ ENABLE_CLUSTER_UI="${KUBE_ENABLE_CLUSTER_UI:-true}"
 # Optional: Create autoscaler for cluster's nodes.
 ENABLE_NODE_AUTOSCALER="${KUBE_ENABLE_NODE_AUTOSCALER:-false}"
 if [[ "${ENABLE_NODE_AUTOSCALER}" == "true" ]]; then
-  AUTOSCALER_MIN_NODES="${KUBE_AUTOSCALER_MIN_NODES:-1}"
-  AUTOSCALER_MAX_NODES="${KUBE_AUTOSCALER_MAX_NODES:-${NUM_NODES}}"
-  TARGET_NODE_UTILIZATION="${KUBE_TARGET_NODE_UTILIZATION:-0.7}"
+  AUTOSCALER_MIN_NODES="${KUBE_AUTOSCALER_MIN_NODES:-}"
+  AUTOSCALER_MAX_NODES="${KUBE_AUTOSCALER_MAX_NODES:-}"
 fi
 
 # 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/util.sh b/cluster/gce/util.sh
index 9caabd32647..0c623f59f35 100755
--- a/cluster/gce/util.sh
+++ b/cluster/gce/util.sh
@@ -45,6 +45,18 @@ else
   exit 1
 fi
 
+# Verfiy cluster autoscaler configuration.
+if [[ "${ENABLE_NODE_AUTOSCALER}" == "true" ]]; then
+  if [ -z $AUTOSCALER_MIN_NODES ]; then
+    echo "AUTOSCALER_MIN_NODES not set."
+    exit 1
+  fi
+  if [ -z $AUTOSCALER_MAX_NODES ]; then
+    echo "AUTOSCALER_MAX_NODES not set."
+    exit 1
+  fi
+fi
+
 NODE_INSTANCE_PREFIX="${INSTANCE_PREFIX}-minion"
 
 ALLOCATE_NODE_CIDRS=true