diff --git a/packages/kbn-pm/dist/index.js b/packages/kbn-pm/dist/index.js
index 48dba22505232..2e50f4214beb4 100644
--- a/packages/kbn-pm/dist/index.js
+++ b/packages/kbn-pm/dist/index.js
@@ -196,6 +196,7 @@ function help() {
         --oss                   Do not include the x-pack when running command.
         --skip-kibana-plugins   Filter all plugins in ./plugins and ../kibana-extra when running command.
         --no-cache              Disable the bootstrap cache
+        --no-validate           Disable the bootstrap yarn.lock validation
         --verbose               Set log level to verbose
         --debug                 Set log level to debug
         --quiet                 Set log level to error
@@ -222,9 +223,10 @@ async function run(argv) {
       i: 'include'
     },
     default: {
-      cache: true
+      cache: true,
+      validate: true
     },
-    boolean: ['prefer-offline', 'frozen-lockfile', 'cache']
+    boolean: ['prefer-offline', 'frozen-lockfile', 'cache', 'validate']
   });
   const args = options._;
 
@@ -8998,7 +9000,11 @@ const BootstrapCommand = {
     }
 
     const yarnLock = await Object(_utils_yarn_lock__WEBPACK_IMPORTED_MODULE_6__["readYarnLock"])(kbn);
-    await Object(_utils_validate_yarn_lock__WEBPACK_IMPORTED_MODULE_7__["validateYarnLock"])(kbn, yarnLock);
+
+    if (options.validate) {
+      await Object(_utils_validate_yarn_lock__WEBPACK_IMPORTED_MODULE_7__["validateYarnLock"])(kbn, yarnLock);
+    }
+
     await Object(_utils_link_project_executables__WEBPACK_IMPORTED_MODULE_0__["linkProjectExecutables"])(projects, projectGraph);
     /**
      * At the end of the bootstrapping process we call all `kbn:bootstrap` scripts
diff --git a/packages/kbn-pm/src/cli.ts b/packages/kbn-pm/src/cli.ts
index 816e84c13bbe9..92ddf3d957cd5 100644
--- a/packages/kbn-pm/src/cli.ts
+++ b/packages/kbn-pm/src/cli.ts
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ function help() {
         --oss                   Do not include the x-pack when running command.
         --skip-kibana-plugins   Filter all plugins in ./plugins and ../kibana-extra when running command.
         --no-cache              Disable the bootstrap cache
+        --no-validate           Disable the bootstrap yarn.lock validation
         --verbose               Set log level to verbose
         --debug                 Set log level to debug
         --quiet                 Set log level to error
@@ -80,8 +81,9 @@ export async function run(argv: string[]) {
     },
     default: {
       cache: true,
+      validate: true,
     },
-    boolean: ['prefer-offline', 'frozen-lockfile', 'cache'],
+    boolean: ['prefer-offline', 'frozen-lockfile', 'cache', 'validate'],
   });
 
   const args = options._;
diff --git a/packages/kbn-pm/src/commands/bootstrap.ts b/packages/kbn-pm/src/commands/bootstrap.ts
index 7cf89c5f08f96..0fa3f355ae9d6 100644
--- a/packages/kbn-pm/src/commands/bootstrap.ts
+++ b/packages/kbn-pm/src/commands/bootstrap.ts
@@ -58,7 +58,9 @@ export const BootstrapCommand: ICommand = {
 
     const yarnLock = await readYarnLock(kbn);
 
-    await validateYarnLock(kbn, yarnLock);
+    if (options.validate) {
+      await validateYarnLock(kbn, yarnLock);
+    }
 
     await linkProjectExecutables(projects, projectGraph);