diff --git a/deployment-configs/tucson-pod.yaml b/deployment-configs/tucson-pod.yaml
index 79cf581..688f6be 100644
--- a/deployment-configs/tucson-pod.yaml
+++ b/deployment-configs/tucson-pod.yaml
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 ONOS_REST_PORT: 30120
 ONOS_SSH_PORT: 30115
 OLT_PORT: 9191
+KUBERNETES_CONF: $HOME/.kube/kind-config-voltha-minimal
 
 # This tells the control node how to reach the Kubernetes nodes.
 # Since we're running kind-voltha, the nodes are reached on localhost.