diff --git a/cmd/minikube/cmd/start_flags.go b/cmd/minikube/cmd/start_flags.go
index bfc39bda3a1f..f87fd108e654 100644
--- a/cmd/minikube/cmd/start_flags.go
+++ b/cmd/minikube/cmd/start_flags.go
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ import (
 	"k8s.io/minikube/pkg/minikube/config"
 	"k8s.io/minikube/pkg/minikube/constants"
 	"k8s.io/minikube/pkg/minikube/cruntime"
+	"k8s.io/minikube/pkg/minikube/detect"
 	"k8s.io/minikube/pkg/minikube/download"
 	"k8s.io/minikube/pkg/minikube/driver"
 	"k8s.io/minikube/pkg/minikube/exit"
@@ -480,6 +481,17 @@ func generateNewConfigFromFlags(cmd *cobra.Command, k8sVersion string, drvName s
 		cc.ContainerVolumeMounts = []string{viper.GetString(mountString)}
 	}
 
+	if detect.IsCloudShell() {
+		err := cc.KubernetesConfig.ExtraOptions.Set("kubelet.cgroups-per-qos=false")
+		if err != nil {
+			exit.Error(reason.InternalConfigSet, "failed to set cloud shell kubelet config options", err)
+		}
+		err = cc.KubernetesConfig.ExtraOptions.Set("kubelet.enforce-node-allocatable=\"\"")
+		if err != nil {
+			exit.Error(reason.InternalConfigSet, "failed to set cloud shell kubelet config options", err)
+		}
+	}
+
 	return cc
 }
 
diff --git a/hack/jenkins/cloud_shell_functional_tests_docker.sh b/hack/jenkins/cloud_shell_functional_tests_docker.sh
index 70c937fd2322..6a229375c666 100755
--- a/hack/jenkins/cloud_shell_functional_tests_docker.sh
+++ b/hack/jenkins/cloud_shell_functional_tests_docker.sh
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ gcloud cloud-shell ssh --authorize-session << EOF
  DRIVER="docker"
  JOB_NAME="Docker_Cloud_Shell"
  CONTAINER_RUNTIME="docker"
- EXTRA_TEST_ARGS="-test.run (TestFunctional|TestAddons)"
+ EXTRA_TEST_ARGS="-test.run (TestFunctional|TestAddons|TestStartStop)"
 
  # Need to set these in cloud-shell or will not be present in common.sh
  MINIKUBE_LOCATION=$MINIKUBE_LOCATION
diff --git a/test/integration/start_stop_delete_test.go b/test/integration/start_stop_delete_test.go
index 85e0f0f924cc..c756965d0376 100644
--- a/test/integration/start_stop_delete_test.go
+++ b/test/integration/start_stop_delete_test.go
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/google/go-cmp/cmp"
 	"k8s.io/minikube/pkg/minikube/bootstrapper/images"
 	"k8s.io/minikube/pkg/minikube/constants"
+	"k8s.io/minikube/pkg/minikube/detect"
 )
 
 // TestStartStop tests starting, stopping and restarting a minikube clusters with various Kubernetes versions and configurations
@@ -76,6 +77,16 @@ func TestStartStop(t *testing.T) {
 			}},
 		}
 
+		if detect.IsCloudShell() {
+			tests = []struct {
+				name    string
+				version string
+				args    []string
+			}{
+				{"cloud-shell", constants.DefaultKubernetesVersion, []string{}},
+			}
+		}
+
 		for _, tc := range tests {
 			tc := tc
 			t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {