diff --git a/src/common/kube-helpers.ts b/src/common/kube-helpers.ts
index 9442ef8891..1387d1aa1b 100644
--- a/src/common/kube-helpers.ts
+++ b/src/common/kube-helpers.ts
@@ -7,6 +7,12 @@ import logger from "../main/logger";
 import commandExists from "command-exists";
 import { ExecValidationNotFoundError } from "./custom-errors";
 
+export type KubeConfigValidationOpts = {
+  validateCluster?: boolean;
+  validateUser?: boolean;
+  validateExec?: boolean;
+};
+
 export const kubeConfigDefaultPath = path.join(os.homedir(), ".kube", "config");
 
 function resolveTilde(filePath: string) {
@@ -154,11 +160,11 @@ export function getNodeWarningConditions(node: V1Node) {
  * Validates Context, User and Cluster sructs in given kubeconfig. Additionally this will validate
  * the command passed to the exec substructure.
  */
-export function validateKubeConfig (config: KubeConfig, contextName: string, validationOpts?: { validateCluster?: boolean, validateUser?: boolean, validateExec?: boolean}) {
+export function validateKubeConfig (config: KubeConfig, contextName: string, validationOpts?: KubeConfigValidationOpts) {
   // we only receive a single context, cluster & user object here so lets validate them as this
   // will be called when we add a new cluster to Lens
-  const opts = validationOpts || {};
-  const { validateUser = true, validateCluster = true, validateExec = true } = opts;
+
+  const { validateUser = true, validateCluster = true, validateExec = true } = validationOpts || {};
 
   const contextObject = config.getContextObject(contextName);