diff --git a/cli/app/app.go b/cli/app/app.go
index 1205070e..bb2052d1 100644
--- a/cli/app/app.go
+++ b/cli/app/app.go
@@ -233,12 +233,12 @@ func Down(c *cli.Context) {
 func getTransformer(opt kobject.ConvertOptions) transformer.Transformer {
 	var t transformer.Transformer
 	if opt.Provider == "kubernetes" {
-		// Create/Init new Kubernetes object
-		t = &kubernetes.Kubernetes{}
+		// Create/Init new Kubernetes object with CLI opts
+		t = &kubernetes.Kubernetes{Opt: opt}
 	} else {
 		// Create/Init new OpenShift object that is initialized with a newly
 		// created Kubernetes object. Openshift inherits from Kubernetes
-		t = &openshift.OpenShift{kubernetes.Kubernetes{}}
+		t = &openshift.OpenShift{kubernetes.Kubernetes{Opt: opt}}
 	}
 	return t
 }
diff --git a/pkg/transformer/kubernetes/kubernetes.go b/pkg/transformer/kubernetes/kubernetes.go
index 236b644a..45761cea 100644
--- a/pkg/transformer/kubernetes/kubernetes.go
+++ b/pkg/transformer/kubernetes/kubernetes.go
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ import (
 )
 
 type Kubernetes struct {
+	// the user provided options from the command line
+	Opt kobject.ConvertOptions
 }
 
 // timeout is how long we'll wait for the termination of kubernetes resource to be successful