diff --git a/pkg/minikube/bootstrapper/kubeadm/kubeadm.go b/pkg/minikube/bootstrapper/kubeadm/kubeadm.go
index 9eb428d8fa1e..1a12f50decf3 100644
--- a/pkg/minikube/bootstrapper/kubeadm/kubeadm.go
+++ b/pkg/minikube/bootstrapper/kubeadm/kubeadm.go
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ import (
 	"k8s.io/minikube/pkg/minikube/out"
 	"k8s.io/minikube/pkg/minikube/vmpath"
 	"k8s.io/minikube/pkg/util/retry"
+	"k8s.io/minikube/pkg/version"
 )
 
 // Bootstrapper is a bootstrapper using kubeadm
@@ -230,6 +231,9 @@ func (k *Bootstrapper) StartCluster(cfg config.MachineConfig) error {
 			return errors.Wrap(err, "timed out waiting to elevate kube-system RBAC privileges")
 		}
 	}
+	if err := k.applyNodeLabels(cfg); err != nil {
+		glog.Warningf("unable to apply node labels: %v", err)
+	}
 
 	if err := bsutil.AdjustResourceLimits(k.c); err != nil {
 		glog.Warningf("unable to adjust resource limits: %v", err)
@@ -483,3 +487,25 @@ func (k *Bootstrapper) applyKicOverlay(cfg config.MachineConfig) error {
 	}
 	return nil
 }
+
+// applyNodeLabels applies minikube labels to all the nodes
+func (k *Bootstrapper) applyNodeLabels(cfg config.MachineConfig) error {
+	// time cluster was created. time format is based on ISO 8601 (RFC 3339)
+	// converting - and : to _ because of kubernetes label restriction
+	createdAtLbl := "minikube.k8s.io/updated_at=" + time.Now().Format("2006_01_02T15_04_05_0700")
+	verLbl := "minikube.k8s.io/version=" + version.GetVersion()
+	commitLbl := "minikube.k8s.io/commit=" + version.GetGitCommitID()
+	nameLbl := "minikube.k8s.io/name=" + cfg.Name
+
+	// example:
+	// sudo /var/lib/minikube/binaries/v1.17.3/kubectl label nodes minikube.k8s.io/version=v1.7.3 minikube.k8s.io/commit=aa91f39ffbcf27dcbb93c4ff3f457c54e585cf4a-dirty minikube.k8s.io/name=p1 minikube.k8s.io/updated_at=2020_02_20T12_05_35_0700 --all --overwrite --kubeconfig=/var/lib/minikube/kubeconfig
+	cmd := exec.Command("sudo",
+		path.Join(vmpath.GuestPersistentDir, "binaries", cfg.KubernetesConfig.KubernetesVersion, "kubectl"),
+		"label", "nodes", verLbl, commitLbl, nameLbl, createdAtLbl, "--all", "--overwrite",
+		fmt.Sprintf("--kubeconfig=%s", path.Join(vmpath.GuestPersistentDir, "kubeconfig")))
+
+	if _, err := k.c.RunCmd(cmd); err != nil {
+		return errors.Wrapf(err, "applying node labels")
+	}
+	return nil
+}
diff --git a/test/integration/functional_test.go b/test/integration/functional_test.go
index 1534abffde52..4469631e2727 100644
--- a/test/integration/functional_test.go
+++ b/test/integration/functional_test.go
@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ func TestFunctional(t *testing.T) {
 			{"FileSync", validateFileSync},
 			{"UpdateContextCmd", validateUpdateContextCmd},
 			{"DockerEnv", validateDockerEnv},
+			{"NodeLabels", validateNodeLabels},
 		}
 		for _, tc := range tests {
 			tc := tc
@@ -123,6 +124,20 @@ func TestFunctional(t *testing.T) {
 	})
 }
 
+// validateNodeLabels checks if minikube cluster is created with correct kubernetes's node label
+func validateNodeLabels(ctx context.Context, t *testing.T, profile string) {
+	rr, err := Run(t, exec.CommandContext(ctx, "kubectl", "--context", profile, "get", "nodes", "--output=go-template", "--template='{{range $k, $v := (index .items 0).metadata.labels}}{{$k}} {{end}}'"))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Errorf("%s failed: %v", rr.Args, err)
+	}
+	expectedLabels := []string{"minikube.k8s.io/commit", "minikube.k8s.io/version", "minikube.k8s.io/updated_at", "minikube.k8s.io/name"}
+	for _, el := range expectedLabels {
+		if !strings.Contains(rr.Output(), el) {
+			t.Errorf("expected to have label %q in node labels: %q", expectedLabels, rr.Output())
+		}
+	}
+}
+
 // check functionality of minikube after evaling docker-env
 func validateDockerEnv(ctx context.Context, t *testing.T, profile string) {
 	mctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, 13*time.Second)