diff --git a/hack/make-rules/test-e2e-node.sh b/hack/make-rules/test-e2e-node.sh
index 1dd301b6c82..ef2a355ec2f 100755
--- a/hack/make-rules/test-e2e-node.sh
+++ b/hack/make-rules/test-e2e-node.sh
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@
 KUBE_ROOT=$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/../..
 source "${KUBE_ROOT}/hack/lib/init.sh"
 
+kube::golang::setup_env
+
 # start the cache mutation detector by default so that cache mutators will be found
 KUBE_CACHE_MUTATION_DETECTOR="${KUBE_CACHE_MUTATION_DETECTOR:-true}"
 export KUBE_CACHE_MUTATION_DETECTOR