diff --git a/cmd/rbe_configs_gen/rbe_configs_gen.go b/cmd/rbe_configs_gen/rbe_configs_gen.go
index 222ffed5c..58a8516a2 100644
--- a/cmd/rbe_configs_gen/rbe_configs_gen.go
+++ b/cmd/rbe_configs_gen/rbe_configs_gen.go
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ var (
 	enableMonitoring      = flag.Bool("enable_monitoring", false, "(Optional) Enables reporting reporting results to Google Cloud Monitoring. Defaults to false.")
 	monitoringProjectID   = flag.String("monitoring_project_id", "", "GCP Project ID where monitoring results will be reported. Required if --enable_monitoring is true.")
 	monitoringDockerImage = flag.String("monitoring_docker_image", "", "Name of the toolchain docker image to be reported as a string label to monitoring. Required if --enable_monitoring is true.")
+	httpsProxy            = flag.String("https_proxy", "", "The proxy argument to send to Docker.")
 )
 
 // printFlag prints flag values with the intent of allowing easy copy paste of flags to rerun this
@@ -110,6 +111,9 @@ func printFlags() {
 	if len(*monitoringDockerImage) != 0 {
 		log.Printf("--monitoring_docker_image=%q \\", *monitoringDockerImage)
 	}
+	if len(*httpsProxy) != 0 {
+		log.Printf("--https_proxy=%q \\", *httpsProxy)
+	}
 }
 
 func initMonitoringClient(ctx context.Context) (*monitoring.Client, error) {
@@ -171,6 +175,7 @@ func main() {
 		JavaUseLocalRuntime:    *javaUseLocalRuntime,
 		TempWorkDir:            *tempWorkDir,
 		Cleanup:                *cleanup,
+		HttpsProxy:             *httpsProxy,
 	}
 
 	result := true
diff --git a/pkg/rbeconfigsgen/options.go b/pkg/rbeconfigsgen/options.go
index 6fcab5f85..a620553cb 100644
--- a/pkg/rbeconfigsgen/options.go
+++ b/pkg/rbeconfigsgen/options.go
@@ -99,6 +99,8 @@ type Options struct {
 	// Cleanup determines whether the running container & intermediate files will be deleted once
 	// config generation is done. Setting it to false is useful for debugging intermediate state.
 	Cleanup bool
+	// HttpsProxy set the proxy to pass to the Docker daemon
+	HttpsProxy string
 }
 
 // DefaultOptions are some option values that are populated as default values for certain fields
diff --git a/pkg/rbeconfigsgen/rbeconfigsgen.go b/pkg/rbeconfigsgen/rbeconfigsgen.go
index a752642c1..7c8ec60c0 100644
--- a/pkg/rbeconfigsgen/rbeconfigsgen.go
+++ b/pkg/rbeconfigsgen/rbeconfigsgen.go
@@ -166,6 +166,8 @@ type dockerRunner struct {
 	// Parameters that affect how commands are executed inside the running toolchain container.
 	// These parameters can be changed between calls to the execCmd function.
 
+	// httpsProxy is the proxy to use by commands inside the container.
+	httpsProxy string
 	// workdir is the working directory to use to run commands inside the container.
 	workdir string
 	// env is the environment variables to set when executing commands specified in the given order
@@ -251,7 +253,7 @@ func BazeliskDownloadInfo(os string) (string, string, error) {
 // newDockerRunner creates a new running container of the given containerImage. stopContainer
 // determines if the cleanup function on the dockerRunner will stop the running container when
 // called.
-func newDockerRunner(containerImage string, stopContainer bool) (*dockerRunner, error) {
+func newDockerRunner(containerImage string, stopContainer bool, httpsProxy string) (*dockerRunner, error) {
 	if containerImage == "" {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("container image was not specified")
 	}
@@ -259,6 +261,7 @@ func newDockerRunner(containerImage string, stopContainer bool) (*dockerRunner,
 		containerImage: containerImage,
 		stopContainer:  stopContainer,
 		dockerPath:     "docker",
+		httpsProxy:     httpsProxy,
 	}
 	if _, err := runCmd(d.dockerPath, "pull", d.containerImage); err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("docker was unable to pull the toolchain container image %q: %w", d.containerImage, err)
@@ -294,6 +297,9 @@ func (d *dockerRunner) execCmd(args ...string) (string, error) {
 	if d.workdir != "" {
 		a = append(a, "-w", d.workdir)
 	}
+	if len(d.httpsProxy) != 0 {
+		a = append(a, "-e", fmt.Sprintf("https_proxy=%s", d.httpsProxy))
+	}
 	for _, e := range d.env {
 		a = append(a, "-e", e)
 	}
@@ -982,7 +988,7 @@ func Run(o Options) error {
 	if err := processTempDir(&o); err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("unable to initialize a local temporary working directory to store intermediate files: %w", err)
 	}
-	d, err := newDockerRunner(o.ToolchainContainer, o.Cleanup)
+	d, err := newDockerRunner(o.ToolchainContainer, o.Cleanup, o.HttpsProxy)
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("failed to initialize a docker container: %w", err)
 	}