diff --git a/src/KubernetesClient/KubernetesClientConfiguration.ConfigFile.cs b/src/KubernetesClient/KubernetesClientConfiguration.ConfigFile.cs
index cfc34a1..25eb05e 100644
--- a/src/KubernetesClient/KubernetesClientConfiguration.ConfigFile.cs
+++ b/src/KubernetesClient/KubernetesClientConfiguration.ConfigFile.cs
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ namespace k8s
         }
 
         /// <summary>
+        /// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="KubernetesClientConfiguration" /> from config file
         /// </summary>
         /// <param name="kubeconfig">Fileinfo of the kubeconfig, cannot be null</param>
         /// <param name="currentContext">override the context in config file, set null if do not want to override</param>
@@ -60,10 +61,11 @@ namespace k8s
         }
 
         /// <summary>
+        /// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="KubernetesClientConfiguration" /> from config file
         /// </summary>
-        /// <param name="kubeconfig">Fileinfo of the kubeconfig, cannot be null, whitespaced or empty</param>
-        /// <param name="currentContext">override the context in config file, set null if do not want to override</param>
-        /// <param name="masterUrl">overrider kube api server endpoint, set null if do not want to override</param>
+        /// <param name="kubeconfig">Stream of the kubeconfig, cannot be null</param>
+        /// <param name="currentContext">Override the current context in config, set null if do not want to override</param>
+        /// <param name="masterUrl">Override the Kubernetes API server endpoint, set null if do not want to override</param>
         public static KubernetesClientConfiguration BuildConfigFromConfigFile(Stream kubeconfig,
             string currentContext = null, string masterUrl = null)
         {
@@ -85,6 +87,15 @@ namespace k8s
             return k8SConfiguration;
         }
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Initializes a new instance of <see cref="KubernetesClientConfiguration"/> from pre-loaded config object.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="k8sConfig">A <see cref="K8SConfiguration"/>, for example loaded from <see cref="LoadKubeConfigAsync(string, bool)" /></param>
+        /// <param name="currentContext">Override the current context in config, set null if do not want to override</param>
+        /// <param name="masterUrl">Override the Kubernetes API server endpoint, set null if do not want to override</param>
+        public static KubernetesClientConfiguration BuildConfigFromConfigObject(K8SConfiguration k8SConfig, string currentContext = null, string masterUrl = null)
+            => GetKubernetesClientConfiguration(currentContext, masterUrl, k8SConfig);
+
         private static KubernetesClientConfiguration GetKubernetesClientConfiguration(string currentContext, string masterUrl, K8SConfiguration k8SConfig)
         {
             var k8SConfiguration = new KubernetesClientConfiguration();
diff --git a/tests/KubernetesClient.Tests/KubernetesClientConfigurationTests.cs b/tests/KubernetesClient.Tests/KubernetesClientConfigurationTests.cs
index fb8065e..40fbfd5 100755
--- a/tests/KubernetesClient.Tests/KubernetesClientConfigurationTests.cs
+++ b/tests/KubernetesClient.Tests/KubernetesClientConfigurationTests.cs
@@ -138,6 +138,14 @@ namespace k8s.Tests
                 KubernetesClientConfiguration.BuildConfigFromConfigFile(fi, "context-not-found"));
         }
 
+        [Fact]
+        public void CreatedFromPreLoadedConfig()
+        {
+            var k8sConfig = KubernetesClientConfiguration.LoadKubeConfig(new FileInfo("assets/kubeconfig.yml"), useRelativePaths: false);
+            var cfg = KubernetesClientConfiguration.BuildConfigFromConfigObject(k8sConfig);
+            Assert.NotNull(cfg.Host);
+        }
+
         /// <summary>
         ///     Checks Host is loaded from the default configuration file
         /// </summary>