diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index ed896fb..efa78d6 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ before_install:
   - make dep
   - go get sigs.k8s.io/kind
   - curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/$(curl -s https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/stable.txt)/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl
+  - chmod +x ./kubectl
   - kind create cluster
   - export KUBECONFIG="$(kind get kubeconfig-path --name="1")"
   - ./kubectl cluster-info