diff --git a/pkg/kubeapiserver/authenticator/config.go b/pkg/kubeapiserver/authenticator/config.go
index bc8033c04ca..ce4be0fda3b 100644
--- a/pkg/kubeapiserver/authenticator/config.go
+++ b/pkg/kubeapiserver/authenticator/config.go
@@ -151,10 +151,20 @@ func (config Config) New() (authenticator.Request, *spec.SecurityDefinitions, er
 	// simply returns an error, the OpenID Connect plugin may query the provider to
 	// update the keys, causing performance hits.
 	if len(config.OIDCIssuerURL) > 0 && len(config.OIDCClientID) > 0 {
+		// TODO(enj): wire up the Notifier and ControllerRunner bits when OIDC supports CA reload
+		var oidcCAContent oidc.CAContentProvider
+		if len(config.OIDCCAFile) != 0 {
+			var oidcCAErr error
+			oidcCAContent, oidcCAErr = dynamiccertificates.NewDynamicCAContentFromFile("oidc-authenticator", config.OIDCCAFile)
+			if oidcCAErr != nil {
+				return nil, nil, oidcCAErr
+			}
+		}
+
 		oidcAuth, err := newAuthenticatorFromOIDCIssuerURL(oidc.Options{
 			IssuerURL:            config.OIDCIssuerURL,
 			ClientID:             config.OIDCClientID,
-			CAFile:               config.OIDCCAFile,
+			CAContentProvider:    oidcCAContent,
 			UsernameClaim:        config.OIDCUsernameClaim,
 			UsernamePrefix:       config.OIDCUsernamePrefix,
 			GroupsClaim:          config.OIDCGroupsClaim,
diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/plugin/pkg/authenticator/token/oidc/oidc.go b/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/plugin/pkg/authenticator/token/oidc/oidc.go
index 8840b65f733..1fb5e70c679 100644
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/plugin/pkg/authenticator/token/oidc/oidc.go
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/plugin/pkg/authenticator/token/oidc/oidc.go
@@ -78,8 +78,8 @@ type Options struct {
 	// See: https://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-core-1_0.html#IDToken
 	ClientID string
 
-	// Path to a PEM encoded root certificate of the provider.
-	CAFile string
+	// PEM encoded root certificate contents of the provider.
+	CAContentProvider CAContentProvider
 
 	// UsernameClaim is the JWT field to use as the user's username.
 	UsernameClaim string
@@ -116,6 +116,11 @@ type Options struct {
 	now func() time.Time
 }
 
+// Subset of dynamiccertificates.CAContentProvider that can be used to dynamically load root CAs.
+type CAContentProvider interface {
+	CurrentCABundleContent() []byte
+}
+
 // initVerifier creates a new ID token verifier for the given configuration and issuer URL.  On success, calls setVerifier with the
 // resulting verifier.
 func initVerifier(ctx context.Context, config *oidc.Config, iss string) (*oidc.IDTokenVerifier, error) {
@@ -273,10 +278,11 @@ func newAuthenticator(opts Options, initVerifier func(ctx context.Context, a *Au
 	}
 
 	var roots *x509.CertPool
-	if opts.CAFile != "" {
-		roots, err = certutil.NewPool(opts.CAFile)
+	if opts.CAContentProvider != nil {
+		// TODO(enj): make this reload CA data dynamically
+		roots, err = certutil.NewPoolFromBytes(opts.CAContentProvider.CurrentCABundleContent())
 		if err != nil {
-			return nil, fmt.Errorf("Failed to read the CA file: %v", err)
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("Failed to read the CA contents: %v", err)
 		}
 	} else {
 		klog.Info("OIDC: No x509 certificates provided, will use host's root CA set")
diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/plugin/pkg/authenticator/token/oidc/oidc_test.go b/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/plugin/pkg/authenticator/token/oidc/oidc_test.go
index 9841225df49..93189d0ee63 100644
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/plugin/pkg/authenticator/token/oidc/oidc_test.go
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/plugin/pkg/authenticator/token/oidc/oidc_test.go
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ import (
 	oidc "github.com/coreos/go-oidc"
 	jose "gopkg.in/square/go-jose.v2"
 	"k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/authentication/user"
+	"k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/server/dynamiccertificates"
 	"k8s.io/klog/v2"
 )
 
@@ -254,7 +255,11 @@ func (c *claimsTest) run(t *testing.T) {
 	// by writing its root CA certificate into a temporary file.
 	tempFileName := writeTempCert(t, ts.TLS.Certificates[0].Certificate[0])
 	defer os.Remove(tempFileName)
-	c.options.CAFile = tempFileName
+	caContent, err := dynamiccertificates.NewDynamicCAContentFromFile("oidc-authenticator", tempFileName)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("initialize ca: %v", err)
+	}
+	c.options.CAContentProvider = caContent
 
 	// Allow claims to refer to the serving URL of the test server.  For this,
 	// substitute all references to {{.URL}} in appropriate places.