diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 05c3895fc4..b5a0a1b9e4 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -87,8 +87,7 @@ SHA512SUM=$(shell command -v sha512sum || echo "shasum -a 512")
 GVISOR_TAG ?= latest
 
 # storage provisioner tag to push changes to
-# to update minikubes default, update pkg/minikube/bootstrapper/images
-STORAGE_PROVISIONER_TAG ?= latest
+STORAGE_PROVISIONER_TAG ?= v2
 
 # TODO: multi-arch manifest
 ifeq ($(GOARCH),amd64)
@@ -98,7 +97,7 @@ STORAGE_PROVISIONER_IMAGE ?= $(REGISTRY)/storage-provisioner-$(GOARCH):$(STORAGE
 endif
 
 # Set the version information for the Kubernetes servers
-MINIKUBE_LDFLAGS := -X k8s.io/minikube/pkg/version.version=$(VERSION) -X k8s.io/minikube/pkg/version.isoVersion=$(ISO_VERSION) -X k8s.io/minikube/pkg/version.isoPath=$(ISO_BUCKET) -X k8s.io/minikube/pkg/version.gitCommitID=$(COMMIT)
+MINIKUBE_LDFLAGS := -X k8s.io/minikube/pkg/version.version=$(VERSION) -X k8s.io/minikube/pkg/version.isoVersion=$(ISO_VERSION) -X k8s.io/minikube/pkg/version.isoPath=$(ISO_BUCKET) -X k8s.io/minikube/pkg/version.gitCommitID=$(COMMIT) -X k8s.io/minikube/pkg/version.storageProvisionerVersion=$(STORAGE_PROVISIONER_TAG)
 PROVISIONER_LDFLAGS := "-X k8s.io/minikube/pkg/storage.version=$(STORAGE_PROVISIONER_TAG) -s -w -extldflags '-static'"
 
 MINIKUBEFILES := ./cmd/minikube/
diff --git a/deploy/addons/storage-provisioner/storage-provisioner.yaml.tmpl b/deploy/addons/storage-provisioner/storage-provisioner.yaml.tmpl
index 7f137aa374..1c1181f6f5 100644
--- a/deploy/addons/storage-provisioner/storage-provisioner.yaml.tmpl
+++ b/deploy/addons/storage-provisioner/storage-provisioner.yaml.tmpl
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ spec:
   hostNetwork: true
   containers:
   - name: storage-provisioner
-    image: {{default "gcr.io/k8s-minikube" .ImageRepository}}/storage-provisioner{{.ExoticArch}}:v1.8.1
+    image: {{default "gcr.io/k8s-minikube" .ImageRepository}}/storage-provisioner{{.ExoticArch}}:{{.StorageProvisionerVersion}}
     command: ["/storage-provisioner"]
     imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
     volumeMounts:
diff --git a/pkg/minikube/assets/addons.go b/pkg/minikube/assets/addons.go
index 73b2d46854..e557a96b2c 100644
--- a/pkg/minikube/assets/addons.go
+++ b/pkg/minikube/assets/addons.go
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import (
 	"k8s.io/minikube/pkg/minikube/config"
 	"k8s.io/minikube/pkg/minikube/constants"
 	"k8s.io/minikube/pkg/minikube/vmpath"
+	"k8s.io/minikube/pkg/version"
 )
 
 // Addon is a named list of assets, that can be enabled
@@ -452,17 +453,19 @@ func GenerateTemplateData(cfg config.KubernetesConfig) interface{} {
 		ea = "-" + runtime.GOARCH
 	}
 	opts := struct {
-		Arch                string
-		ExoticArch          string
-		ImageRepository     string
-		LoadBalancerStartIP string
-		LoadBalancerEndIP   string
+		Arch                      string
+		ExoticArch                string
+		ImageRepository           string
+		LoadBalancerStartIP       string
+		LoadBalancerEndIP         string
+		StorageProvisionerVersion string
 	}{
-		Arch:                a,
-		ExoticArch:          ea,
-		ImageRepository:     cfg.ImageRepository,
-		LoadBalancerStartIP: cfg.LoadBalancerStartIP,
-		LoadBalancerEndIP:   cfg.LoadBalancerEndIP,
+		Arch:                      a,
+		ExoticArch:                ea,
+		ImageRepository:           cfg.ImageRepository,
+		LoadBalancerStartIP:       cfg.LoadBalancerStartIP,
+		LoadBalancerEndIP:         cfg.LoadBalancerEndIP,
+		StorageProvisionerVersion: version.GetStorageProvisionerVersion(),
 	}
 
 	return opts
diff --git a/pkg/minikube/bootstrapper/images/images.go b/pkg/minikube/bootstrapper/images/images.go
index 1092e2abdf..b066dcc8bb 100644
--- a/pkg/minikube/bootstrapper/images/images.go
+++ b/pkg/minikube/bootstrapper/images/images.go
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import (
 	"runtime"
 
 	"github.com/blang/semver"
+	"k8s.io/minikube/pkg/version"
 )
 
 // Pause returns the image name to pull for a given Kubernetes version
@@ -127,7 +128,7 @@ func auxiliary(mirror string) []string {
 
 // storageProvisioner returns the minikube storage provisioner image
 func storageProvisioner(mirror string) string {
-	return path.Join(minikubeRepo(mirror), "storage-provisioner"+archTag(false)+"v1.8.1")
+	return path.Join(minikubeRepo(mirror), "storage-provisioner"+archTag(false)+version.GetStorageProvisionerVersion())
 }
 
 // dashboardFrontend returns the image used for the dashboard frontend
diff --git a/pkg/minikube/bootstrapper/images/images_test.go b/pkg/minikube/bootstrapper/images/images_test.go
index 657d43a51c..2bc369b87c 100644
--- a/pkg/minikube/bootstrapper/images/images_test.go
+++ b/pkg/minikube/bootstrapper/images/images_test.go
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ import (
 
 func TestAuxiliary(t *testing.T) {
 	want := []string{
-		"gcr.io/k8s-minikube/storage-provisioner:v1.8.1",
+		"gcr.io/k8s-minikube/storage-provisioner:v2",
 		"kubernetesui/dashboard:v2.0.1",
 		"kubernetesui/metrics-scraper:v1.0.4",
 	}
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ func TestAuxiliary(t *testing.T) {
 
 func TestAuxiliaryMirror(t *testing.T) {
 	want := []string{
-		"test.mirror/storage-provisioner:v1.8.1",
+		"test.mirror/storage-provisioner:v2",
 		"test.mirror/dashboard:v2.0.1",
 		"test.mirror/metrics-scraper:v1.0.4",
 	}
diff --git a/pkg/minikube/bootstrapper/images/kubeadm_test.go b/pkg/minikube/bootstrapper/images/kubeadm_test.go
index d95ca2fd45..f1348ce901 100644
--- a/pkg/minikube/bootstrapper/images/kubeadm_test.go
+++ b/pkg/minikube/bootstrapper/images/kubeadm_test.go
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ func TestKubeadmImages(t *testing.T) {
 			"k8s.gcr.io/coredns:1.6.5",
 			"k8s.gcr.io/etcd:3.4.3-0",
 			"k8s.gcr.io/pause:3.1",
-			"gcr.io/k8s-minikube/storage-provisioner:v1.8.1",
+			"gcr.io/k8s-minikube/storage-provisioner:v2",
 			"kubernetesui/dashboard:v2.0.1",
 			"kubernetesui/metrics-scraper:v1.0.4",
 		}},
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ func TestKubeadmImages(t *testing.T) {
 			"mirror.k8s.io/coredns:1.6.2",
 			"mirror.k8s.io/etcd:3.3.15-0",
 			"mirror.k8s.io/pause:3.1",
-			"mirror.k8s.io/storage-provisioner:v1.8.1",
+			"mirror.k8s.io/storage-provisioner:v2",
 			"mirror.k8s.io/dashboard:v2.0.1",
 			"mirror.k8s.io/metrics-scraper:v1.0.4",
 		}},
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ func TestKubeadmImages(t *testing.T) {
 			"k8s.gcr.io/coredns:1.3.1",
 			"k8s.gcr.io/etcd:3.3.10",
 			"k8s.gcr.io/pause:3.1",
-			"gcr.io/k8s-minikube/storage-provisioner:v1.8.1",
+			"gcr.io/k8s-minikube/storage-provisioner:v2",
 			"kubernetesui/dashboard:v2.0.1",
 			"kubernetesui/metrics-scraper:v1.0.4",
 		}},
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ func TestKubeadmImages(t *testing.T) {
 			"k8s.gcr.io/coredns:1.3.1",
 			"k8s.gcr.io/etcd:3.3.10",
 			"k8s.gcr.io/pause:3.1",
-			"gcr.io/k8s-minikube/storage-provisioner:v1.8.1",
+			"gcr.io/k8s-minikube/storage-provisioner:v2",
 			"kubernetesui/dashboard:v2.0.1",
 			"kubernetesui/metrics-scraper:v1.0.4",
 		}},
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ func TestKubeadmImages(t *testing.T) {
 			"k8s.gcr.io/coredns:1.2.6",
 			"k8s.gcr.io/etcd:3.2.24",
 			"k8s.gcr.io/pause:3.1",
-			"gcr.io/k8s-minikube/storage-provisioner:v1.8.1",
+			"gcr.io/k8s-minikube/storage-provisioner:v2",
 			"kubernetesui/dashboard:v2.0.1",
 			"kubernetesui/metrics-scraper:v1.0.4",
 		}},
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ func TestKubeadmImages(t *testing.T) {
 			"k8s.gcr.io/coredns:1.2.2",
 			"k8s.gcr.io/etcd:3.2.24",
 			"k8s.gcr.io/pause:3.1",
-			"gcr.io/k8s-minikube/storage-provisioner:v1.8.1",
+			"gcr.io/k8s-minikube/storage-provisioner:v2",
 			"kubernetesui/dashboard:v2.0.1",
 			"kubernetesui/metrics-scraper:v1.0.4",
 		}},
diff --git a/pkg/minikube/cruntime/containerd_test.go b/pkg/minikube/cruntime/containerd_test.go
index 5f99033daa..5b1e6414f9 100644
--- a/pkg/minikube/cruntime/containerd_test.go
+++ b/pkg/minikube/cruntime/containerd_test.go
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ func TestAddRepoTagToImageName(t *testing.T) {
 	}{
 		{"kubernetesui/dashboard:v2.0.1", "docker.io/kubernetesui/dashboard:v2.0.1"},
 		{"kubernetesui/metrics-scraper:v1.0.4", "docker.io/kubernetesui/metrics-scraper:v1.0.4"},
-		{"gcr.io/k8s-minikube/storage-provisioner:v1.8.1", "gcr.io/k8s-minikube/storage-provisioner:v1.8.1"},
+		{"gcr.io/k8s-minikube/storage-provisioner:v2", "gcr.io/k8s-minikube/storage-provisioner:v2"},
 	}
 	for _, tc := range tests {
 		t.Run(tc.imgName, func(t *testing.T) {
diff --git a/pkg/version/version.go b/pkg/version/version.go
index a3b921c5ca..0faeb4964f 100644
--- a/pkg/version/version.go
+++ b/pkg/version/version.go
@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ var gitCommitID = ""
 // isoVersion is a private field and should be set when compiling with --ldflags="-X k8s.io/minikube/pkg/version.isoVersion=vX.Y.Z"
 var isoVersion = "v0.0.0-unset"
 
+// storageProvisionerVersion is a private field and should be set when compiling with --ldflags="-X k8s.io/minikube/pkg/version.storageProvisionerVersion=<storage-provisioner-version>"
+var storageProvisionerVersion = ""
+
 // GetVersion returns the current minikube version
 func GetVersion() string {
 	return version
@@ -53,3 +56,8 @@ func GetISOVersion() string {
 func GetSemverVersion() (semver.Version, error) {
 	return semver.Make(strings.TrimPrefix(GetVersion(), VersionPrefix))
 }
+
+// GetStorageProvisionerVersion returns the storage provisioner version
+func GetStorageProvisionerVersion() string {
+	return storageProvisionerVersion
+}