diff --git a/helpers/deploy_rabbitmq.sh b/helpers/deploy_rabbitmq.sh
index 47b16dc7b74623f5fbfb5ed8ad123afe1b114915..3dcda61ad6711d7cf27f19304bd09c68cfb7dc8b 100755
--- a/helpers/deploy_rabbitmq.sh
+++ b/helpers/deploy_rabbitmq.sh
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ helm upgrade -v 2 --install --kubeconfig $kubeconfig -f ${values_base}/values-ge
 # do a little waiting for the rabbitmq pod to be ready so future stages
 # don't fail to communicate with it
 echo "Start waiting for rabbitmq: $(date +%Y%m%dT%H%M%S)"
-kubectl2 wait -n $ns pod/geosphere-rabbit-rabbitmq-0 --timeout 120s --for=condition=Ready
+kubectl2 wait --kubeconfig $kubeconfig -n $ns pod/geosphere-rabbit-rabbitmq-0 --timeout 120s --for=condition=Ready
 status=$?
 echo "Done waiting for rabbitmq: $(date +%Y%m%dT%H%M%S) : $status"
 exit $status