diff --git a/Vagrantfile b/Vagrantfile
index 4315f3f..ff00657 100644
--- a/Vagrantfile
+++ b/Vagrantfile
@@ -156,6 +156,26 @@ Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
       # then to run as many times as the total number of VMs we only call them
       # in the master (re: emyl/vagrant-triggers#13)...
       if vmName == "master"
+        kHost.trigger.before [:up, :provision] do
+          info "regenerating kubLocalSetup"
+          system <<-EOT.prepend("\n\n") + "\n"
+            cat kubLocalSetup.tmpl | \
+             sed -e "s|__KUBERNETES_VERSION__|#{KUBERNETES_VERSION}|g" \
+                 -e "s|__MASTER_IP__|#{MASTER_IP}|g" > kubLocalSetup
+             chmod +x kubLocalSetup
+          EOT
+          info "making sure localhosts' 'kubectl' matches what we just booted..."
+          system "./kubLocalSetup install"
+        end
+        # GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes#6380
+        # blob bellow coming from stock + https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kube-register#15
+        kHost.vm.provision :file, :source => "kube-register", :destination => "/tmp/kube-register"
+        kHost.vm.provision :shell, :privileged => true,
+          inline: <<-EOF
+            echo "using customized kube-register to get post 0.15.x"
+            chmod +x /tmp/kube-register
+          EOF
+
         kHost.trigger.before [:up, :provision] do
           info "checking host platform..."
           system <<-EOT.prepend("\n\n") + "\n"
@@ -174,15 +194,6 @@ Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
           system "rm -rf ~/.fleetctl/known_hosts"
         end
         kHost.trigger.after [:up] do
-          info "regenerating kubLocalSetup"
-          system <<-EOT.prepend("\n\n") + "\n"
-            cat kubLocalSetup.tmpl | \
-             sed -e "s|__KUBERNETES_VERSION__|#{KUBERNETES_VERSION}|g" \
-                 -e "s|__MASTER_IP__|#{MASTER_IP}|g" > kubLocalSetup
-             chmod +x kubLocalSetup
-          EOT
-          info "making sure localhosts' 'kubectl' matches what we just booted..."
-          system "./kubLocalSetup install"
           info "waiting for the cluster to be fully up..."
           system <<-EOT.prepend("\n\n") + "\n"
             until curl -o /dev/null -sIf http://#{MASTER_IP}:8080; do \
diff --git a/kube-register b/kube-register
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..7bbc8ea
Binary files /dev/null and b/kube-register differ
diff --git a/master.yaml b/master.yaml
index 20fc810..cae70a8 100644
--- a/master.yaml
+++ b/master.yaml
@@ -215,9 +215,10 @@ coreos:
         After=kube-apiserver.service
 
         [Service]
-        ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/wget -N -P /opt/bin https://storage.googleapis.com/k8s/kube-register
-        ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/chmod +x /opt/bin/kube-register
-        ExecStart=/opt/bin/kube-register \
+        # ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/wget -N -P /opt/bin https://storage.googleapis.com/k8s/kube-register
+        # ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/chmod +x /opt/bin/kube-register
+        # ExecStart=/opt/bin/kube-register
+        ExecStart=/tmp/kube-register \
         --metadata=role=minion \
         --fleet-endpoint=unix:///var/run/fleet.sock \
         --api-endpoint=http://127.0.0.1:8080