diff --git a/microk8s-resources/wrappers/run-kubelite-with-args b/microk8s-resources/wrappers/run-kubelite-with-args
index 8762199981..4fe923b8a6 100755
--- a/microk8s-resources/wrappers/run-kubelite-with-args
+++ b/microk8s-resources/wrappers/run-kubelite-with-args
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ done
 
 if [ -e ${SNAP_DATA}/args/ha-conf ]
 then
-  storage_param="$(get_opt_in_config '--storage-dir' 'kube-apiserver')"
+  storage_param="$(get_opt_in_config '--storage-dir' 'k8s-dqlite')"
   storage_dir="$(eval echo $storage_param)"
   if $(grep -qE "^failure-domain" "${SNAP_DATA}/args/ha-conf"); then
     val="$(get_opt_in_config 'failure-domain' 'ha-conf')"
diff --git a/snap/hooks/configure b/snap/hooks/configure
index 8b7792c0ba..7b5fae4ef4 100755
--- a/snap/hooks/configure
+++ b/snap/hooks/configure
@@ -545,6 +545,12 @@ then
 
   refresh_opt_in_config etcd-servers unix://\${SNAP_DATA}/var/kubernetes/backend/kine.sock:12379 kube-apiserver
   skip_opt_in_config storage-backend kube-apiserver
+
+  storage_dir="$(get_opt_in_config '--storage-dir' 'kube-apiserver')"
+  if ! [ -z $storage_dir ]
+  then
+    refresh_opt_in_config storage-dir "$storage_dir" k8s-dqlite
+  fi
   skip_opt_in_config storage-dir kube-apiserver
 
   snapctl restart ${SNAP_NAME}.daemon-k8s-dqlite