diff --git a/changelog/fragments/fix-ansible-helm-auth-providers.yaml b/changelog/fragments/fix-ansible-helm-auth-providers.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..215374cad5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/fragments/fix-ansible-helm-auth-providers.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+entries:
+  - description: >
+      Added kubernetes authentication clients to `ansible-operator` and 
+      `helm-operator` to enable authentication to gcp, azure, etc. kubernetes 
+      clusters.
+
+    kind: bugfix
+    breaking: false
diff --git a/cmd/ansible-operator/main.go b/cmd/ansible-operator/main.go
index 78db568b61..9af2890fa8 100644
--- a/cmd/ansible-operator/main.go
+++ b/cmd/ansible-operator/main.go
@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ package main
 import (
 	"log"
 
+	// Import all Kubernetes client auth plugins (e.g. Azure, GCP, OIDC, etc.)
+	// to ensure that `exec-entrypoint` and `run` can make use of them.
+	_ "k8s.io/client-go/plugin/pkg/client/auth"
+
 	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
 
 	"github.com/operator-framework/operator-sdk/internal/cmd/ansible-operator/run"
diff --git a/cmd/helm-operator/main.go b/cmd/helm-operator/main.go
index 7332e9564e..ab672833bd 100644
--- a/cmd/helm-operator/main.go
+++ b/cmd/helm-operator/main.go
@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ package main
 import (
 	"log"
 
+	// Import all Kubernetes client auth plugins (e.g. Azure, GCP, OIDC, etc.)
+	// to ensure that `exec-entrypoint` and `run` can make use of them.
+	_ "k8s.io/client-go/plugin/pkg/client/auth"
+
 	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
 
 	"github.com/operator-framework/operator-sdk/internal/cmd/helm-operator/run"