diff --git a/Vagrantfile b/Vagrantfile
index 68de73639a..f199ee3a7c 100644
--- a/Vagrantfile
+++ b/Vagrantfile
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ end
 # When doing Salt provisioning, we copy approximately 200MB of content in /tmp before anything else happens.
 # This causes problems if anything else was in /tmp or the other directories that are bound to tmpfs device (i.e /run, etc.)
 $vm_master_mem = (ENV['KUBERNETES_MASTER_MEMORY'] || ENV['KUBERNETES_MEMORY'] || 1280).to_i
-$vm_node_mem = (ENV['KUBERNETES_NODE_MEMORY'] || ENV['KUBERNETES_MEMORY'] || 1024).to_i
+$vm_node_mem = (ENV['KUBERNETES_NODE_MEMORY'] || ENV['KUBERNETES_MEMORY'] || 2048).to_i
 
 Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
   if Vagrant.has_plugin?("vagrant-proxyconf")