diff --git a/Gopkg.lock b/Gopkg.lock
index 4513c3b590..afda57220d 100644
--- a/Gopkg.lock
+++ b/Gopkg.lock
@@ -1178,6 +1178,7 @@
     "pkg/apis/clientauthentication/v1beta1",
     "pkg/version",
     "plugin/pkg/client/auth/exec",
+    "plugin/pkg/client/auth/gcp",
     "rest",
     "rest/watch",
     "restmapper",
diff --git a/cmd/kubectl-flyte/cmd/root.go b/cmd/kubectl-flyte/cmd/root.go
index f56009f43e..46de4ca3e5 100644
--- a/cmd/kubectl-flyte/cmd/root.go
+++ b/cmd/kubectl-flyte/cmd/root.go
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/lyft/flytestdlib/version"
 	"github.com/spf13/pflag"
 	"k8s.io/client-go/kubernetes"
+	_ "k8s.io/client-go/plugin/pkg/client/auth/gcp"
 	"k8s.io/client-go/rest"
 	"k8s.io/client-go/tools/clientcmd"