diff --git a/components/kubeflow/container/deployer/deploy.sh b/components/kubeflow/container/deployer/deploy.sh
index a0fb8cfc603..f13c8e26e40 100755
--- a/components/kubeflow/container/deployer/deploy.sh
+++ b/components/kubeflow/container/deployer/deploy.sh
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 
 set -x
 
-KUBERNETES_NAMESPACE="${KUBERNETES_NAMESPACE:-default}"
+KUBERNETES_NAMESPACE="${KUBERNETES_NAMESPACE:-kubeflow}"
 SERVER_NAME="${SERVER_NAME:-model-server}"
 
 while (($#)); do