diff --git a/src/KubernetesClientConfiguration.ConfigFile.cs b/src/KubernetesClientConfiguration.ConfigFile.cs
index 862414db6..0a103da9c 100644
--- a/src/KubernetesClientConfiguration.ConfigFile.cs
+++ b/src/KubernetesClientConfiguration.ConfigFile.cs
@@ -50,6 +50,58 @@ public static KubernetesClientConfiguration BuildConfigFromConfigFile(FileInfo k
             }
 
             var k8SConfig = LoadKubeConfig(kubeconfig);
+            var k8SConfiguration = GetKubernetesClientConfiguration(currentContext, masterUrl, k8SConfig);
+
+            return k8SConfiguration;
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="kubeconfig">Fileinfo of the kubeconfig, cannot be null, whitespaced or empty</param>
+        /// <param name="currentContext">override the context in config file, set null if do not want to override</param>
+        /// <param name="masterUrl">overrider kube api server endpoint, set null if do not want to override</param>
+        public static KubernetesClientConfiguration BuildConfigFromConfigFile(string kubeconfig,
+            string currentContext = null, string masterUrl = null)
+        {
+            if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(kubeconfig))
+            {
+                throw new NullReferenceException(nameof(kubeconfig));
+            }
+
+            var k8SConfig = LoadKubeConfig(kubeconfig);
+            var k8SConfiguration = GetKubernetesClientConfiguration(currentContext, masterUrl, k8SConfig);
+
+            return k8SConfiguration;
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="kubeconfig">Fileinfo of the kubeconfig, cannot be null, whitespaced or empty</param>
+        /// <param name="currentContext">override the context in config file, set null if do not want to override</param>
+        /// <param name="masterUrl">overrider kube api server endpoint, set null if do not want to override</param>
+        public static KubernetesClientConfiguration BuildConfigFromConfigFile(Stream kubeconfig,
+            string currentContext = null, string masterUrl = null)
+        {
+            if (kubeconfig == null)
+            {
+                throw new NullReferenceException(nameof(kubeconfig));
+            }
+
+            if (!kubeconfig.CanSeek)
+            {
+                throw new Exception("Stream don't support seeking!");
+            }
+
+            kubeconfig.Position = 0;
+
+            var k8SConfig = LoadKubeConfig(kubeconfig);
+            var k8SConfiguration = GetKubernetesClientConfiguration(currentContext, masterUrl, k8SConfig);
+
+            return k8SConfiguration;
+        }
+
+        private static KubernetesClientConfiguration GetKubernetesClientConfiguration(string currentContext, string masterUrl, K8SConfiguration k8SConfig)
+        {
             var k8SConfiguration = new KubernetesClientConfiguration();
 
             currentContext = currentContext ?? k8SConfig.CurrentContext;
@@ -228,5 +280,32 @@ private static K8SConfiguration LoadKubeConfig(FileInfo kubeconfig)
                 return deserializer.Deserialize<K8SConfiguration>(kubeConfigTextStream);
             }
         }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        ///     Loads Kube Config from string
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="kubeconfig">Kube config file contents</param>
+        /// <returns>Instance of the <see cref="K8SConfiguration"/> class</returns>
+        private static K8SConfiguration LoadKubeConfig(string kubeconfig)
+        {
+
+            var deserializeBuilder = new DeserializerBuilder();
+            var deserializer = deserializeBuilder.Build();
+            return deserializer.Deserialize<K8SConfiguration>(kubeconfig);
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        ///     Loads Kube Config from stream.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="kubeconfig">Kube config file contents</param>
+        /// <returns>Instance of the <see cref="K8SConfiguration"/> class</returns>
+        private static K8SConfiguration LoadKubeConfig(Stream kubeconfig)
+        {
+            using (var sr = new StreamReader(kubeconfig))
+            {               
+                var strKubeConfig = sr.ReadToEnd();
+                return LoadKubeConfig(strKubeConfig);
+            }
+        }
     }
 }
diff --git a/tests/KubernetesClientConfigurationTests.cs b/tests/KubernetesClientConfigurationTests.cs
index da4567770..11701aa0c 100755
--- a/tests/KubernetesClientConfigurationTests.cs
+++ b/tests/KubernetesClientConfigurationTests.cs
@@ -285,5 +285,31 @@ public void DeletedConfigurationFile()
                 File.Delete(tempFileInfo.FullName);
             }
         }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        ///     Checks Host is loaded from the default configuration file as string
+        /// </summary>
+        [Fact]
+        public void DefaultConfigurationAsStringLoaded()
+        {
+            var txt = File.ReadAllText("assets/kubeconfig.yml");
+
+            var cfg = KubernetesClientConfiguration.BuildConfigFromConfigFile(txt, null, null);
+            Assert.NotNull(cfg.Host);
+        }
+
+
+        /// <summary>
+        ///     Checks Host is loaded from the default configuration file as stream
+        /// </summary>
+        [Fact]
+        public void DefaultConfigurationAsStreamLoaded()
+        {
+            using (var stream = File.OpenRead("assets/kubeconfig.yml"))
+            {
+                var cfg = KubernetesClientConfiguration.BuildConfigFromConfigFile(stream);
+                Assert.NotNull(cfg.Host);
+            }
+        }
     }
 }