diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/dockertools/manager.go b/pkg/kubelet/dockertools/manager.go
index 609345537cb..4e18832c93b 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/dockertools/manager.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/dockertools/manager.go
@@ -593,6 +593,9 @@ func (dm *DockerManager) runContainer(
 			CPUShares:  cpuShares,
 			WorkingDir: container.WorkingDir,
 			Labels:     labels,
+			// Interactive containers:
+			OpenStdin: container.Stdin,
+			Tty:       container.TTY,
 		},
 	}