diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 8359c30be..e5d1d0a65 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ before_deploy:
   - curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/$(curl -s https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/stable.txt)/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl
   - chmod +x ./kubectl
   - sudo mv ./kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl
-  - mkdir ${HOME}/.kube
+  - mkdir -p ${HOME}/.kube
   - cp kubeconfig.yaml ${HOME}/.kube/config
 
 deploy: