diff --git a/Tiltfile b/Tiltfile
index 5adafa7ed111..219a4f4daca8 100644
--- a/Tiltfile
+++ b/Tiltfile
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ allow_k8s_contexts(settings.get("allowed_contexts"))
 default_registry(settings.get("default_registry"))
 
 always_enable_providers = ["core"]
+extra_args = settings.get("extra_args", {})
 
 providers = {
     "core": {
@@ -96,6 +97,7 @@ COPY --from=tilt-helper /go/kubernetes/client/bin/kubectl /usr/bin/kubectl
 # }
 def load_provider_tiltfiles():
     provider_repos = settings.get("provider_repos", [])
+
     for repo in provider_repos:
         file = repo + "/tilt-provider.json"
         provider_details = read_json(file, default = {})
@@ -158,12 +160,17 @@ def enable_provider(name):
 
     # Set up an image build for the provider. The live update configuration syncs the output from the local_resource
     # build into the container.
+    entrypoint = ["sh", "/start.sh", "/manager"]
+    provider_args = extra_args.get(name)
+    if provider_args:
+        entrypoint.extend(provider_args)
+
     docker_build(
         ref = p.get("image"),
         context = context + "/.tiltbuild/",
         dockerfile_contents = dockerfile_contents,
         target = "tilt",
-        entrypoint = ["sh", "/start.sh", "/manager"],
+        entrypoint = entrypoint,
         only = "manager",
         live_update = [
             sync(context + "/.tiltbuild/manager", "/manager"),
diff --git a/docs/book/src/developer/tilt.md b/docs/book/src/developer/tilt.md
index cbb6434486a6..37af5162e805 100644
--- a/docs/book/src/developer/tilt.md
+++ b/docs/book/src/developer/tilt.md
@@ -192,6 +192,28 @@ COPY --from=tilt-helper /usr/bin/docker /usr/bin/docker
 COPY --from=tilt-helper /go/kubernetes/client/bin/kubectl /usr/bin/kubectl
 ```
 
+
+**extra_args** (Object, default={}): A mapping of provider to additional arguments to pass to the main binary configured
+for this provider. Each item in the array will be passed in to the manager. 
+
+Example:
+
+```json
+{
+    "extra_args": {
+        "core": ["--feature-gates=MachinePool=true"],
+        "kubeadm-bootstrap": ["--feature-gates=MachinePool=true"],
+        "azure": ["--feature-gates=MachinePool=true"]
+    }
+}
+```
+
+With this config, the manager will be invoked with:
+
+```bash
+manager --feature-gates=MachinePool=true
+```
+
 ## Customizing Tilt
 
 If you need to customize Tilt's behavior, you can create files in cluster-api's `tilt.d` directory. This file is ignored