diff --git a/cluster/common.sh b/cluster/common.sh
index 77e4fe0074..264db0536f 100755
--- a/cluster/common.sh
+++ b/cluster/common.sh
@@ -500,6 +500,7 @@ OPENCONTRAIL_PUBLIC_SUBNET: $(yaml-quote ${OPENCONTRAIL_PUBLIC_SUBNET:-})
 E2E_STORAGE_TEST_ENVIRONMENT: $(yaml-quote ${E2E_STORAGE_TEST_ENVIRONMENT:-})
 KUBE_IMAGE_TAG: $(yaml-quote ${KUBE_IMAGE_TAG:-})
 KUBE_DOCKER_REGISTRY: $(yaml-quote ${KUBE_DOCKER_REGISTRY:-})
+KUBE_ADDON_REGISTRY: $(yaml-quote ${KUBE_ADDON_REGISTRY:-})
 MULTIZONE: $(yaml-quote ${MULTIZONE:-})
 NON_MASQUERADE_CIDR: $(yaml-quote ${NON_MASQUERADE_CIDR:-})
 EOF
diff --git a/cluster/gce/config-default.sh b/cluster/gce/config-default.sh
index 3ed9af7dc3..35fb749eb7 100755
--- a/cluster/gce/config-default.sh
+++ b/cluster/gce/config-default.sh
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ source "${KUBE_ROOT}/cluster/gce/config-common.sh"
 GCLOUD=gcloud
 ZONE=${KUBE_GCE_ZONE:-us-central1-b}
 RELEASE_REGION_FALLBACK=${RELEASE_REGION_FALLBACK:-false}
+REGIONAL_KUBE_ADDONS=${REGIONAL_KUBE_ADDONS:-true}
 NODE_SIZE=${NODE_SIZE:-n1-standard-2}
 NUM_NODES=${NUM_NODES:-3}
 MASTER_SIZE=${MASTER_SIZE:-n1-standard-$(get-master-size)}
diff --git a/cluster/gce/config-test.sh b/cluster/gce/config-test.sh
index 1db2aa0fea..82ef181c39 100755
--- a/cluster/gce/config-test.sh
+++ b/cluster/gce/config-test.sh
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ source "${KUBE_ROOT}/cluster/gce/config-common.sh"
 GCLOUD=gcloud
 ZONE=${KUBE_GCE_ZONE:-us-central1-b}
 RELEASE_REGION_FALLBACK=${RELEASE_REGION_FALLBACK:-false}
+REGIONAL_KUBE_ADDONS=${REGIONAL_KUBE_ADDONS:-true}
 NODE_SIZE=${NODE_SIZE:-n1-standard-2}
 NUM_NODES=${NUM_NODES:-3}
 MASTER_SIZE=${MASTER_SIZE:-n1-standard-$(get-master-size)}
diff --git a/cluster/gce/util.sh b/cluster/gce/util.sh
index f7204ab9aa..724834d9d0 100755
--- a/cluster/gce/util.sh
+++ b/cluster/gce/util.sh
@@ -133,10 +133,12 @@ function copy-to-staging() {
 # give us an API for this, so we hardcode it.
 #
 # Assumed vars:
-#   REGIONAL_RELEASE
+#   RELEASE_REGION_FALLBACK
+#   REGIONAL_KUBE_ADDONS
 #   ZONE
 # Vars set:
 #   PREFERRED_REGION
+#   KUBE_ADDON_REGISTRY
 function set-preferred-region() {
   case ${ZONE} in
     asia-*)
@@ -149,9 +151,19 @@ function set-preferred-region() {
       PREFERRED_REGION=("us" "eu" "asia")
       ;;
   esac
+  local -r preferred="${PREFERRED_REGION[0]}"
 
   if [[ "${RELEASE_REGION_FALLBACK}" != "true" ]]; then
-    PREFERRED_REGION=( "${PREFERRED_REGION[0]}" )
+    PREFERRED_REGION=( "${preferred}" )
+  fi
+
+  # If we're using regional GCR, and we're outside the US, go to the
+  # regional registry. The gcr.io/google_containers registry is
+  # appropriate for US (for now).
+  if [[ "${REGIONAL_KUBE_ADDONS}" == "true" ]] && [[ "${preferred}" != "us" ]]; then
+    KUBE_ADDON_REGISTRY="${preferred}.gcr.io/google_containers"
+  else
+    KUBE_ADDON_REGISTRY="gcr.io/google_containers"
   fi
 }
 
diff --git a/cluster/saltbase/install.sh b/cluster/saltbase/install.sh
index bedea8973c..b567909771 100755
--- a/cluster/saltbase/install.sh
+++ b/cluster/saltbase/install.sh
@@ -85,6 +85,19 @@ cat <<EOF >>"${docker_images_sls_file}"
 kube_docker_registry: '$(echo ${KUBE_DOCKER_REGISTRY:-gcr.io/google_containers})'
 EOF
 
+# TODO(zmerlynn): Forgive me, this is really gross. But in order to
+# avoid breaking the non-Salt deployments, which already painfully
+# have to templatize a couple of the add-ons anyways, manually
+# templatize the addon registry for regional support. When we get
+# better templating, we can fix this.
+readonly kube_addon_registry="${KUBE_ADDON_REGISTRY:-gcr.io/google_containers}"
+if [[ "${kube_addon_registry}" != "gcr.io/google_containers" ]]; then
+  find /srv/salt-new -name \*.yaml -or -name \*.yaml.in | \
+    xargs sed -ri "s@(image:\s.*)gcr.io/google_containers@\1${kube_addon_registry}@"
+  # All the legacy .manifest files with hardcoded gcr.io are JSON.
+  find /srv/salt-new -name \*.manifest -or -name \*.json | \
+    xargs sed -ri "s@(image\":\s+\")gcr.io/google_containers@\1${kube_addon_registry}@"
+fi
 
 echo "+++ Swapping in new configs"
 for dir in "${SALTDIRS[@]}"; do