diff --git a/deploy/iso/minikube-iso/package/Config.in b/deploy/iso/minikube-iso/package/Config.in
index f9a04fdfbe5b..75aaaf10c62c 100644
--- a/deploy/iso/minikube-iso/package/Config.in
+++ b/deploy/iso/minikube-iso/package/Config.in
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 menu "System tools"
     source "$BR2_EXTERNAL_MINIKUBE_PATH/package/runc-master/Config.in"
     source "$BR2_EXTERNAL_MINIKUBE_PATH/package/podman/Config.in"
+    source "$BR2_EXTERNAL_MINIKUBE_PATH/package/varlink/Config.in"
     source "$BR2_EXTERNAL_MINIKUBE_PATH/package/conmon-master/Config.in"
     source "$BR2_EXTERNAL_MINIKUBE_PATH/package/crio-bin/Config.in"
     source "$BR2_EXTERNAL_MINIKUBE_PATH/package/crictl-bin/Config.in"
diff --git a/deploy/iso/minikube-iso/package/varlink/Config.in b/deploy/iso/minikube-iso/package/varlink/Config.in
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ef047e156017
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deploy/iso/minikube-iso/package/varlink/Config.in
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+config BR2_PACKAGE_VARLINK
+	bool "varlink"
+	default y
diff --git a/deploy/iso/minikube-iso/package/varlink/varlink.hash b/deploy/iso/minikube-iso/package/varlink/varlink.hash
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..214978c84eb8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deploy/iso/minikube-iso/package/varlink/varlink.hash
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+sha256 3857f109574750403b233b5fdf73f1852d8decc33dac8f73bd49f2003b69ad22 16.tar.gz
+sha256 0dcb451f32033154c56710c216e67f245923fe2b011321271f6670e5a2285ce6 17.tar.gz
+sha256 7a32543643116ad105da4ddb2f8030de7dcad1cdb3feb1a214ae5e7b65a6a198 18.tar.gz
diff --git a/deploy/iso/minikube-iso/package/varlink/varlink.mk b/deploy/iso/minikube-iso/package/varlink/varlink.mk
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ade2392f6f52
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deploy/iso/minikube-iso/package/varlink/varlink.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+VARLINK_VERSION = 18
+VARLINK_SITE = https://github.com/varlink/libvarlink/archive
+VARLINK_SOURCE = $(VARLINK_VERSION).tar.gz
+VARLINK_LICENSE = Apache-2.0
+VARLINK_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE
+
+$(eval $(meson-package))