diff --git a/halyard-deploy/src/main/java/com/netflix/spinnaker/halyard/deploy/spinnaker/v1/service/distributed/kubernetes/v1/KubernetesV1ProviderUtils.java b/halyard-deploy/src/main/java/com/netflix/spinnaker/halyard/deploy/spinnaker/v1/service/distributed/kubernetes/v1/KubernetesV1ProviderUtils.java
index 36c98b03a7..f43e4786fb 100644
--- a/halyard-deploy/src/main/java/com/netflix/spinnaker/halyard/deploy/spinnaker/v1/service/distributed/kubernetes/v1/KubernetesV1ProviderUtils.java
+++ b/halyard-deploy/src/main/java/com/netflix/spinnaker/halyard/deploy/spinnaker/v1/service/distributed/kubernetes/v1/KubernetesV1ProviderUtils.java
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ static KubernetesClient getClient(AccountDeploymentDetails<KubernetesAccount> de
         account.getCluster(),
         account.getUser(),
         account.getNamespaces(),
-        false);
+        account.usesServiceAccount());
 
     return new DefaultKubernetesClient(config);
   }