diff --git a/projects/kubernetes/kubernetes/kubeadm-init.sh b/projects/kubernetes/kubernetes/kubeadm-init.sh
index 0aa1895f2..87feee6f6 100755
--- a/projects/kubernetes/kubernetes/kubeadm-init.sh
+++ b/projects/kubernetes/kubernetes/kubeadm-init.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,15 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 set -e
 touch /var/lib/kubeadm/.kubeadm-init.sh-started
-kubeadm init --skip-preflight-checks --kubernetes-version @KUBERNETES_VERSION@ $@
+if [ -f /etc/kubeadm/kubeadm.yaml ]; then
+    echo Using the configuration from /etc/kubeadm/kubeadm.yaml
+    if [ $# -ne 0 ] ; then
+        echo WARNING: Ignoring command line options: $@
+    fi
+    kubeadm init --skip-preflight-checks --config /etc/kubeadm/kubeadm.yaml
+else
+    kubeadm init --skip-preflight-checks --kubernetes-version @KUBERNETES_VERSION@ $@
+fi
 for i in /etc/kubeadm/kube-system.init/*.yaml ; do
     if [ -e "$i" ] ; then
 	echo "Applying "$(basename "$i")