diff --git a/pykube/config.py b/pykube/config.py
index 459f940..a0710c1 100644
--- a/pykube/config.py
+++ b/pykube/config.py
@@ -183,6 +183,22 @@ def user(self):
             raise exceptions.PyKubeError("current context not set; call set_current_context")
         return self.users.get(self.contexts[self.current_context].get("user", ""), {})
 
+    def persist_doc(self):
+        if not hasattr(self, "filename") or not self.filename:
+            # Config was provided as string, not way to persit it
+            return
+        with open(self.filename, "w") as f:
+            yaml.safe_dump(self.doc, f, encoding='utf-8',
+                           allow_unicode=True, default_flow_style=False)
+
+    def reload(self):
+        if hasattr(self, "_users"):
+            delattr(self, "_users")
+        if hasattr(self, "_contexts"):
+            delattr(self, "_contexts")
+        if hasattr(self, "_clusters"):
+            delattr(self, "_clusters")
+
 
 class BytesOrFile(object):
     """
diff --git a/pykube/http.py b/pykube/http.py
index 7ad40c1..c7ecc23 100644
--- a/pykube/http.py
+++ b/pykube/http.py
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@
 import re
 import sys
 import warnings
-import requests
 
 from six.moves.urllib.parse import urlparse
 
+from .session import build_session
 from .exceptions import HTTPError
 
 
@@ -21,16 +21,25 @@ class HTTPClient(object):
     Client for interfacing with the Kubernetes API.
     """
 
-    def __init__(self, config):
+    _session = None
+
+    def __init__(self, config, gcloud_file=None):
         """
         Creates a new instance of the HTTPClient.
 
         :Parameters:
            - `config`: The configuration instance
+           - `gcloud_file`: For GCP deployments, override gcloud credentials file location
         """
         self.config = config
+        self.gcloud_file = gcloud_file
         self.url = self.config.cluster["server"]
-        self.session = self.build_session()
+
+    @property
+    def session(self):
+        if not self._session:
+            self._session = build_session(self.config, self.gcloud_file)
+        return self._session
 
     @property
     def url(self):
@@ -43,38 +52,6 @@ def url(self, value):
             warnings.warn("IP address hostnames are not supported with Python < 3.5. Please see https://github.com/kelproject/pykube/issues/29 for more info.", RuntimeWarning)
         self._url = pr.geturl()
 
-    def _set_bearer_token(self, session, token):
-        """
-        Set the bearer authorization token for the session.
-        """
-        session.headers["Authorization"] = "Bearer {}".format(token)
-
-    def build_session(self):
-        """
-        Creates a new session for the client.
-        """
-        s = requests.Session()
-        if "certificate-authority" in self.config.cluster:
-            s.verify = self.config.cluster["certificate-authority"].filename()
-        elif "insecure-skip-tls-verify" in self.config.cluster:
-            s.verify = not self.config.cluster["insecure-skip-tls-verify"]
-        if "token" in self.config.user and self.config.user["token"]:
-            self._set_bearer_token(s, self.config.user["token"])
-        elif "auth-provider" in self.config.user:
-            token = self.config.user['auth-provider'].get('config', {}).get('access-token')
-            if token is not None:
-                self._set_bearer_token(s, token)
-        elif "client-certificate" in self.config.user:
-            s.cert = (
-                self.config.user["client-certificate"].filename(),
-                self.config.user["client-key"].filename(),
-            )
-        elif self.config.user.get("username") and self.config.user.get("password"):
-            s.auth = (self.config.user["username"], self.config.user["password"])
-        else:  # no user present; don't configure anything
-            pass
-        return s
-
     def get_kwargs(self, **kwargs):
         """
         Creates a full URL to request based on arguments.
diff --git a/pykube/session.py b/pykube/session.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..83a1aa2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pykube/session.py
@@ -0,0 +1,125 @@
+import os
+import json
+import requests
+import datetime
+
+from tzlocal import get_localzone
+from requests_oauthlib import OAuth2Session
+from oauthlib.oauth2 import BackendApplicationClient
+
+from .exceptions import PyKubeError
+
+
+def build_session(config, gcloud_file=None):
+    """
+    Creates a new session for the client.
+    """
+    if "token" in config.user and config.user["token"]:
+        s = _session_object("token")
+        _set_bearer_token(s, config.user["token"])
+    elif "auth-provider" in config.user:
+        s = _session_object("gcp", config, gcloud_file)
+    elif "client-certificate" in config.user:
+        s = _session_object("client-certificate")
+        s.cert = (
+            config.user["client-certificate"].filename(),
+            config.user["client-key"].filename(),
+        )
+    elif config.user.get("username") and config.user.get("password"):
+        s = _session_object("basic-auth")
+        s.auth = (config.user["username"], config.user["password"])
+    else:  # no user present; don't configure anything
+        s = _session_object()
+
+    if "certificate-authority" in config.cluster:
+        s.verify = config.cluster["certificate-authority"].filename()
+    elif "insecure-skip-tls-verify" in config.cluster:
+        s.verify = not config.cluster["insecure-skip-tls-verify"]
+    return s
+
+
+def _session_object(strategy=None, config=None, gcloud_file=None):
+    if strategy in ["token", "client-certificate", "basic-auth"]:
+        return requests.Session()
+    elif strategy in ["gcp"]:
+        return GCPSession(config, gcloud_file).create()
+    else:
+        return requests.Session()
+
+
+def _set_bearer_token(session, token):
+    """
+    Set the bearer authorization token for the session.
+    """
+    session.headers["Authorization"] = "Bearer {}".format(token)
+
+
+class GCPSession(object):
+
+    oauth = None
+    token_url = u'https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v4/token'
+    userinfo_url = u'https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/userinfo'
+    gcloud_well_known_file = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser('~'),
+                                          ".config/gcloud/application_default_credentials.json")
+
+    scope = ["https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.email",
+             "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform",
+             "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/appengine.admin",
+             "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute",
+             "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/plus.me"]
+
+    def __init__(self, config, gcloud_file=None):
+        self.config = config
+        if gcloud_file:
+            self.gcloud_well_known_file = gcloud_file
+        self.client_id, self.client_secret, self.refresh_token = self._load_default_gcloud_credentials()
+        client = BackendApplicationClient(client_id=self.client_id)
+        self.oauth = OAuth2Session(client=client, scope=self.scope)
+        token = {
+            'access_token': self.access_token,
+            'refresh_token': self.refresh_token,
+            'token_type': 'Bearer',
+            'expires_in': '3600',
+        }
+
+        self.oauth.token = token
+
+    @property
+    def access_token(self):
+        return self.config.user['auth-provider'].get('config', {}).get('access-token')
+
+    @property
+    def expired_token(self):
+        return self.oauth.get(self.userinfo_url).status_code == 401
+
+    def create(self):
+        if not self.access_token or self.expired_token:
+            # Getting access token from gcp
+            self._update_token()
+
+        return self.oauth
+
+    def _update_token(self):
+        tok = self.oauth.refresh_token(self.token_url, client_id=self.client_id,
+                                       client_secret=self.client_secret,
+                                       refresh_token=self.refresh_token)
+        self._persist_token(tok)
+
+    def _persist_token(self, tok):
+        user_name = self.config.contexts[self.config.current_context]['user']
+        user = [u['user'] for u in self.config.doc['users'] if u['name'] == user_name][0]
+        if 'config' not in user['auth-provider']:
+            user['auth-provider']['config'] = {}
+        user['auth-provider']['config']['access-token'] = tok['access_token']
+        date_expires = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(tok['expires_at'])
+        local_tz = get_localzone()
+        user['auth-provider']['config']['expiry'] = local_tz.localize(date_expires).isoformat()
+        self.config.persist_doc()
+        self.config.reload()
+
+    def _load_default_gcloud_credentials(self):
+        if not os.path.exists(self.gcloud_well_known_file):
+            raise PyKubeError('Google cloud well known file missing, configure your gcloud session')
+        with open(self.gcloud_well_known_file) as f:
+            data = json.loads(f.read())
+        return data['client_id'], data['client_secret'], data['refresh_token']
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 3b038ba..6dd5a80 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -26,7 +26,9 @@
     packages=find_packages(),
     install_requires=[
         "requests",
+        "requests-oauthlib",
         "PyYAML",
         "six",
+        "tzlocal",
     ],
 )
diff --git a/test/test_http.py b/test/test_http.py
index 523c10b..c53170a 100644
--- a/test/test_http.py
+++ b/test/test_http.py
@@ -23,5 +23,5 @@ def tearDown(self):
     def test_build_session_basic(self):
         """
         """
-        session = HTTPClient(self.cfg).build_session()
+        session = HTTPClient(self.cfg).session
         self.assertEqual(session.auth, ('adm', 'somepassword'))
diff --git a/test/test_httpclient.py b/test/test_httpclient.py
index f267f36..18e3b0d 100644
--- a/test/test_httpclient.py
+++ b/test/test_httpclient.py
@@ -102,22 +102,15 @@ def test_no_auth_with_no_user(self):
         client = pykube.HTTPClient(pykube.KubeConfig(doc=config))
         self.ensure_no_auth(client)
 
-    def test_build_session_auth_provider(self):
-        """Test that HTTPClient correctly parses the auth-provider config.
-
-        Observed in GKE with kubelet v1.3.
+    def test_build_session_bearer_token(self):
+        """Test that HTTPClient correctly parses the token
         """
         self.config.update({
             'users': [
                 {
                     'name': 'test-user',
                     'user': {
-                        'auth-provider': {
-                            'config': {
-                                'access-token': 'abc',
-                                'expiry': '2016-08-24T16:19:17.19878675-07:00',
-                            },
-                        },
+                        'token': 'test'
                     },
                 },
             ]
@@ -127,4 +120,4 @@ def test_build_session_auth_provider(self):
         client = pykube.HTTPClient(pykube.KubeConfig(doc=self.config))
         _log.debug('Checking headers %s', client.session.headers)
         self.assertIn('Authorization', client.session.headers)
-        self.assertEqual(client.session.headers['Authorization'], 'Bearer abc')
+        self.assertEqual(client.session.headers['Authorization'], 'Bearer test')
diff --git a/test/test_session.py b/test/test_session.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9520f25
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/test_session.py
@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+"""
+pykube.http unittests
+"""
+import os
+import copy
+import logging
+import tempfile
+
+import pykube
+
+from . import TestCase
+
+BASE_CONFIG = {
+    "clusters": [
+        {
+            "name": "test-cluster",
+            "cluster": {
+                "server": "http://localhost:8080",
+            }
+        }
+    ],
+    "contexts": [
+        {
+            "name": "test-cluster",
+            "context": {
+                "cluster": "test-cluster",
+                "user": "test-user",
+            }
+        }
+    ],
+    "users": [
+        {
+            'name': 'test-user',
+            'user': {},
+        }
+    ],
+    "current-context": "test-cluster",
+}
+
+_log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+class TestSession(TestCase):
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.config = copy.deepcopy(BASE_CONFIG)
+
+    def test_build_session_auth_provider(self):
+        """Test that HTTPClient correctly parses the auth-provider config.
+
+        Observed in GKE with kubelet v1.3.
+        """
+        self.config.update({
+            'users': [
+                {
+                    'name': 'test-user',
+                    'user': {
+                        'auth-provider': {
+                            'config': {
+                                'access-token': 'abc',
+                                'expiry': '2016-08-24T16:19:17.19878675-07:00',
+                            },
+                        },
+                    },
+                },
+            ]
+        })
+
+        gcloud_content = """
+{
+  "client_id": "myclientid",
+  "client_secret": "myclientsecret",
+  "refresh_token": "myrefreshtoken",
+  "type": "authorized_user"
+}
+
+"""
+
+        _log.info('Built config: %s', self.config)
+        try:
+            tmp = tempfile.mktemp()
+            with open(tmp, 'w') as f:
+                f.write(gcloud_content)
+
+            session= pykube.session.GCPSession(pykube.KubeConfig(doc=self.config), tmp)
+            self.assertEquals(session.oauth.token['access_token'], 'abc')
+            self.assertEquals(session.oauth.token['refresh_token'], 'myrefreshtoken')
+            self.assertEquals(session.client_id, 'myclientid')
+            self.assertEquals(session.client_secret, 'myclientsecret')
+        finally:
+            if os.path.exists(tmp):
+                os.remove(tmp)
+