diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 356b8cf447b..e407c63d0bd 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 
 #### New Features
 * Fix #2287: Add support for V1 and V1Beta1 CustomResourceDefinition
+* Fix #2319: Create Config without using auto-configure functionality or setting env variables
 
 ### 4.10.3 (2020-07-14)
 #### Bugs
diff --git a/kubernetes-client/src/main/java/io/fabric8/kubernetes/client/Config.java b/kubernetes-client/src/main/java/io/fabric8/kubernetes/client/Config.java
index a58d78f2fa3..e4cfbc87ec8 100644
--- a/kubernetes-client/src/main/java/io/fabric8/kubernetes/client/Config.java
+++ b/kubernetes-client/src/main/java/io/fabric8/kubernetes/client/Config.java
@@ -211,16 +211,45 @@ public class Config {
    */
   private Map<String,String> customHeaders = null;
 
+  private Boolean autoConfigure = Boolean.FALSE;
+
   /**
    * @deprecated use {@link #autoConfigure(String)} or {@link ConfigBuilder} instead
    */
   @Deprecated
   public Config() {
     if (!Utils.getSystemPropertyOrEnvVar(KUBERNETES_DISABLE_AUTO_CONFIG_SYSTEM_PROPERTY, false)) {
+      this.autoConfigure = Boolean.TRUE;
+      autoConfigure(this, null);
+    }
+  }
+
+  private Config(Boolean autoConfigure) {
+    if (Boolean.TRUE.equals(autoConfigure)) {
+      this.autoConfigure = Boolean.TRUE;
       autoConfigure(this, null);
     }
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Create an empty {@link Config} class without any automatic configuration
+   * (i.e. reading system properties/environment variables to load defaults.)
+   * You can also reuse this object to build your own {@link Config} object
+   * without any auto configuration like this:
+   *
+   * <pre>{
+   * @code
+   * Config configFromBuilder = new ConfigBuilder(Config.empty())
+   *                                // ...
+   *                               .build();
+   * }</pre>
+   *
+   * @return a Config object without any automatic configuration
+   */
+  public static Config empty() {
+    return new Config(false);
+  }
+
   /**
    * Does auto detection with some opinionated defaults.
    *
@@ -1171,6 +1200,10 @@ public void setCustomHeaders(Map<String, String> customHeaders) {
     this.customHeaders = customHeaders;
   }
 
+  public Boolean getAutoConfigure() {
+    return autoConfigure;
+  }
+
   /**
    * Returns all the {@link NamedContext}s that exist in the kube config
    * 
diff --git a/kubernetes-client/src/test/java/io/fabric8/kubernetes/client/ConfigTest.java b/kubernetes-client/src/test/java/io/fabric8/kubernetes/client/ConfigTest.java
index 234cb148c1e..47429b4d240 100644
--- a/kubernetes-client/src/test/java/io/fabric8/kubernetes/client/ConfigTest.java
+++ b/kubernetes-client/src/test/java/io/fabric8/kubernetes/client/ConfigTest.java
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 import okhttp3.TlsVersion;
 import org.apache.commons.lang.SystemUtils;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.AfterEach;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeEach;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 
@@ -44,6 +45,7 @@
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertNull;
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertArrayEquals;
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertFalse;
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertNotNull;
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.fail;
@@ -321,7 +323,7 @@ public void testWithNonExistingNamespacePath() {
     Config config = new Config();
     assertNotNull(config);
     assertEquals("http://somehost:80/", config.getMasterUrl());
-    assertEquals(null, config.getNamespace());
+    Assertions.assertNull(config.getNamespace());
   }
 
   @Test
@@ -365,7 +367,7 @@ public void testWithNamespacePathAndSytemPropertiesAndBuilder() {
 
   @Test
   public void testWithCustomHeader() {
-    Map<String,String> customHeaders = new HashMap();
+    Map<String,String> customHeaders = new HashMap<>();
     customHeaders.put("user-id","test-user");
     customHeaders.put("cluster-id","test-cluster");
     Config config = new ConfigBuilder()
@@ -393,12 +395,12 @@ public void shouldSetImpersonateUsernameAndGroupFromSystemProperty() {
 
     assertEquals("a", config.getImpersonateUsername());
     assertArrayEquals(new String[]{"group"}, config.getImpersonateGroups());
-    assertEquals(Arrays.asList("d"), config.getImpersonateExtras().get("c"));
+    assertEquals(Collections.singletonList("d"), config.getImpersonateExtras().get("c"));
 
   }
 
   @Test
-  public void shouldInstantiateClientUsingYaml() throws MalformedURLException {
+  public void shouldInstantiateClientUsingYaml() {
     File configYml = new File(TEST_CONFIG_YML_FILE);
     try (InputStream is = new FileInputStream(configYml)){
       KubernetesClient client = DefaultKubernetesClient.fromConfig(is);
@@ -409,7 +411,7 @@ public void shouldInstantiateClientUsingYaml() throws MalformedURLException {
   }
 
   @Test
-  public void shouldInstantiateClientUsingSerializeDeserialize() throws MalformedURLException {
+  public void shouldInstantiateClientUsingSerializeDeserialize() {
     DefaultKubernetesClient original = new DefaultKubernetesClient();
     String json = Serialization.asJson(original.getConfiguration());
     DefaultKubernetesClient copy = DefaultKubernetesClient.fromConfig(json);
@@ -464,7 +466,7 @@ public void shouldPropagateImpersonateSettings() {
 
     assertEquals("a", currentConfig.getImpersonateUsername());
     assertArrayEquals(new String[]{"b"}, currentConfig.getImpersonateGroups());
-    assertEquals(Arrays.asList("d"), currentConfig.getImpersonateExtras().get("c"));
+    assertEquals(Collections.singletonList("d"), currentConfig.getImpersonateExtras().get("c"));
   }
 
   @Test
@@ -482,7 +484,7 @@ public void honorClientAuthenticatorCommands() throws Exception {
   }
 
   @Test
-  public void shouldBeUsedTokenSuppliedByProvider() throws Exception {
+  public void shouldBeUsedTokenSuppliedByProvider() {
 
     Config config = new ConfigBuilder().withOauthToken("oauthToken")
                                        .withOauthTokenProvider(() -> "PROVIDER_TOKEN")
@@ -508,6 +510,41 @@ public void testKubeConfigWithAuthConfigProvider() throws URISyntaxException  {
       config.getOauthToken());
   }
 
+  @Test
+  void testEmptyConfig() {
+    // Given
+    Config emptyConfig = null;
+
+    // When
+    emptyConfig = Config.empty();
+
+    // Then
+    assertNotNull(emptyConfig);
+    assertEquals("https://kubernetes.default.svc", emptyConfig.getMasterUrl());
+    assertTrue(emptyConfig.getContexts().isEmpty());
+    assertNull(emptyConfig.getCurrentContext());
+    assertEquals(64, emptyConfig.getMaxConcurrentRequests());
+    assertEquals(5, emptyConfig.getMaxConcurrentRequestsPerHost());
+    assertFalse(emptyConfig.isTrustCerts());
+    assertFalse(emptyConfig.isDisableHostnameVerification());
+    assertEquals("RSA", emptyConfig.getClientKeyAlgo());
+    assertEquals("changeit", emptyConfig.getClientKeyPassphrase());
+    assertEquals(1000, emptyConfig.getWatchReconnectInterval());
+    assertEquals(-1, emptyConfig.getWatchReconnectLimit());
+    assertEquals(10000, emptyConfig.getConnectionTimeout());
+    assertEquals(10000, emptyConfig.getRequestTimeout());
+    assertEquals(900000, emptyConfig.getRollingTimeout());
+    assertEquals(600000, emptyConfig.getScaleTimeout());
+    assertEquals(20000, emptyConfig.getLoggingInterval());
+    assertEquals(5000, emptyConfig.getWebsocketTimeout());
+    assertEquals(30000, emptyConfig.getWebsocketPingInterval());
+    assertTrue(emptyConfig.getImpersonateExtras().isEmpty());
+    assertEquals(0, emptyConfig.getImpersonateGroups().length);
+    assertFalse(emptyConfig.isHttp2Disable());
+    assertEquals(1, emptyConfig.getTlsVersions().length);
+    assertTrue(emptyConfig.getErrorMessages().isEmpty());
+  }
+
   private void assertConfig(Config config) {
     assertNotNull(config);
     assertTrue(config.isTrustCerts());