diff --git a/components/kubeflow/deployer/src/deploy.sh b/components/kubeflow/deployer/src/deploy.sh
index 2d469c176440..0d87f5deb923 100755
--- a/components/kubeflow/deployer/src/deploy.sh
+++ b/components/kubeflow/deployer/src/deploy.sh
@@ -21,9 +21,9 @@ SERVER_NAME="${SERVER_NAME:-model-server}"
 
 while (($#)); do
    case $1 in
-     "--model-path")
+     "--model-export-path")
        shift
-       MODEL_PATH="$1"
+       MODEL_EXPORT_PATH="$1"
        shift
        ;;
      "--cluster-name")
@@ -53,12 +53,12 @@ while (($#)); do
    esac
 done
 
-if [ -z "${MODEL_PATH}" ]; then
+if [ -z "${MODEL_EXPORT_PATH}" ]; then
   echo "You must specify a path to the saved model"
   exit 1
 fi
 
-echo "Deploying the model '${MODEL_PATH}'"
+echo "Deploying the model '${MODEL_EXPORT_PATH}'"
 
 if [ -z "${CLUSTER_NAME}" ]; then
   CLUSTER_NAME=$(wget -q -O- --header="Metadata-Flavor: Google" http://metadata.google.internal/computeMetadata/v1/instance/attributes/cluster-name)
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ ks pkg install kubeflow/tf-serving@${KUBEFLOW_VERSION}
 
 echo "Generating the TF Serving config..."
 ks generate tf-serving server --name="${SERVER_NAME}"
-ks param set server modelPath "${MODEL_PATH}/export/export"
+ks param set server modelPath "${MODEL_EXPORT_PATH}"
 
 # support local storage to deploy tf-serving.
 if [ -n "${PVC_NAME}" ];then
diff --git a/samples/notebooks/KubeFlow Pipeline Using TFX OSS Components.ipynb b/samples/notebooks/KubeFlow Pipeline Using TFX OSS Components.ipynb
index 046870cc21c3..41075e6db20d 100644
--- a/samples/notebooks/KubeFlow Pipeline Using TFX OSS Components.ipynb	
+++ b/samples/notebooks/KubeFlow Pipeline Using TFX OSS Components.ipynb	
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@
     "        name = step_name,\n",
     "        image = KUBEFLOW_DEPLOYER_IMAGE,\n",
     "        arguments = [\n",
-    "            '--model-path', model,\n",
+    "            '--model-export-path', '%s/export/export' % model,\n",
     "            '--server-name', tf_server_name\n",
     "        ]\n",
     "    )\n",
diff --git a/samples/tfx/taxi-cab-classification-pipeline.py b/samples/tfx/taxi-cab-classification-pipeline.py
index 754f7841617f..b7d1a7fbfb1c 100755
--- a/samples/tfx/taxi-cab-classification-pipeline.py
+++ b/samples/tfx/taxi-cab-classification-pipeline.py
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ def kubeflow_deploy_op(model: 'TensorFlow model', tf_server_name, step_name='dep
         name = step_name,
         image = 'gcr.io/ml-pipeline/ml-pipeline-kubeflow-deployer:5df2cdc1ed145320204e8bc73b59cdbd7b3da28f',
         arguments = [
-            '--model-path', model,
+            '--model-export-path', '%s/export/export' % model,
             '--server-name', tf_server_name
         ]
     )