diff --git a/examples/k8s_glue_example.py b/examples/k8s_glue_example.py
index c528619..c664e24 100644
--- a/examples/k8s_glue_example.py
+++ b/examples/k8s_glue_example.py
@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ def parse_args():
         help="If using ports-mode, specifies the base port exposed by the services."
              "For pod #X, the port will be <base-port>+X"
     )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--pod-trains-conf", type=str,
+        help="Configuration file to be used by the pod itself (if not provided, current configuration is used)"
+    )
     return parser.parse_args()
 
 
@@ -37,7 +41,9 @@ def main():
         def user_props_cb(pod_number):
             return {"k8s-pod-port": args.base_port + pod_number}
 
-    k8s = K8sIntegration(ports_mode=args.ports_mode, num_of_services=args.num_of_services, user_props_cb=user_props_cb)
+    k8s = K8sIntegration(
+        ports_mode=args.ports_mode, num_of_services=args.num_of_services, user_props_cb=user_props_cb,
+        trains_conf_file=args.pod_trains_conf)
     k8s.k8s_daemon(args.queue)
 
 
diff --git a/trains_agent/glue/k8s.py b/trains_agent/glue/k8s.py
index 25aefd3..e819954 100644
--- a/trains_agent/glue/k8s.py
+++ b/trains_agent/glue/k8s.py
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ class K8sIntegration(Worker):
             ports_mode=False,
             num_of_services=20,
             user_props_cb=None,
+            trains_conf_file=None,
     ):
         """
         Initialize the k8s integration glue layer daemon
@@ -72,6 +73,7 @@ class K8sIntegration(Worker):
         :param callable user_props_cb: An Optional callable allowing additional user properties to be specified
             when scheduling a task to run in a pod. Callable can receive an optional pod number and should return
             a dictionary of user properties (name and value). Signature is [[Optional[int]], Dict[str,str]]
+        :param str trains_conf_file: trains.conf file to be use by the pod itself
         """
         super(K8sIntegration, self).__init__()
         self.k8s_pending_queue_name = k8s_pending_queue_name or self.K8S_PENDING_QUEUE
@@ -87,6 +89,11 @@ class K8sIntegration(Worker):
         self.num_of_services = num_of_services
         self._edit_hyperparams_support = None
         self._user_props_cb = user_props_cb
+        self.trains_conf_file = None
+        if trains_conf_file:
+            with open(os.path.expandvars(os.path.expanduser(str(trains_conf_file))), 'rt') as f:
+                self.trains_conf_file = f.read()
+            print(self.trains_conf_file)
 
     def _set_task_user_properties(self, task_id: str, **properties: str):
         if self._edit_hyperparams_support is not True:
@@ -140,9 +147,8 @@ class K8sIntegration(Worker):
         # take the first part, this is the docker image name (not arguments)
         docker_image = docker_image.split()[0]
 
-        hocon_config_encoded = HOCONConverter.to_hocon(
-                self._session.config._config
-            ).encode('ascii')
+        hocon_config_encoded = (
+                self.trains_conf_file or HOCONConverter.to_hocon(self._session.config._config)).encode('ascii')
         create_trains_conf = "echo '{}' | base64 --decode >> ~/trains.conf && ".format(
             base64.b64encode(
                 hocon_config_encoded