diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index d10333aeb8110..ac0f92f731fc2 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -3208,9 +3208,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "k8s-openapi"
-version = "0.11.0"
+version = "0.12.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "bcc1f973542059e6d5a6d63de6a9539d0ec784f82b2327f3c1915d33200bc6a4"
+checksum = "fbff78f6da26dde0d74188966d23fc763431d730d0f766ecf7699209f8fc243c"
 dependencies = [
  "base64 0.13.0",
  "bytes 1.0.1",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index fc4eca201e347..d439405322c04 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ hyper-openssl = { version = "0.9.1", default-features = false }
 indexmap = { version = "1.6.2", default-features = false, features = ["serde"] }
 indoc = { version = "1.0.3", default-features = false }
 inventory = { version = "0.1.10", default-features = false }
-k8s-openapi = { version = "0.11.0", default-features = true, features = ["api", "v1_16"], optional = true }
+k8s-openapi = { version = "0.12.0", default-features = true, features = ["api", "v1_16"], optional = true }
 lazy_static = { version = "1.4.0", default-features = false }
 leveldb = { version = "0.8.6", default-features = false, optional = true }
 listenfd = { version = "0.3.3", default-features = false, optional = true }
diff --git a/lib/k8s-e2e-tests/Cargo.toml b/lib/k8s-e2e-tests/Cargo.toml
index 2d882ad8cec55..60c981dd39ed2 100644
--- a/lib/k8s-e2e-tests/Cargo.toml
+++ b/lib/k8s-e2e-tests/Cargo.toml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ license = "MPL-2.0"
 
 [dependencies]
 futures = "0.3"
-k8s-openapi = { version = "0.11.0", default-features = false, features = ["v1_16"] }
+k8s-openapi = { version = "0.12.0", default-features = false, features = ["v1_16"] }
 k8s-test-framework = { version = "0.1", path = "../k8s-test-framework" }
 regex = "1"
 reqwest = { version = "0.11.3", features = ["json"] }
diff --git a/lib/k8s-test-framework/Cargo.toml b/lib/k8s-test-framework/Cargo.toml
index 3a5a9f6fa71e7..54fc9cbd243ae 100644
--- a/lib/k8s-test-framework/Cargo.toml
+++ b/lib/k8s-test-framework/Cargo.toml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ publish = false
 license = "MPL-2.0"
 
 [dependencies]
-k8s-openapi = { version = "0.11.0", default-features = false, features = ["v1_16"] }
+k8s-openapi = { version = "0.12.0", default-features = false, features = ["v1_16"] }
 once_cell = "1"
 serde_json = "1"
 tempfile = "3"