diff --git a/.github/dependabot.yml b/.github/dependabot.yml
index d9a772676..577cc6182 100644
--- a/.github/dependabot.yml
+++ b/.github/dependabot.yml
@@ -9,3 +9,30 @@ updates:
       - rebase
     commit-message:
       prefix: "rebase"
+    ignore:
+      # k8s.io/kubernetes prevents auto-updating these
+      - dependency-name: "k8s.io/api"
+      - dependency-name: "k8s.io/apiextensions-apiserver"
+      - dependency-name: "k8s.io/apimachinery"
+      - dependency-name: "k8s.io/apiserver"
+      - dependency-name: "k8s.io/cli-runtime"
+      - dependency-name: "k8s.io/client-go"
+      - dependency-name: "k8s.io/cloud-provider"
+      - dependency-name: "k8s.io/cluster-bootstrap"
+      - dependency-name: "k8s.io/code-generator"
+      - dependency-name: "k8s.io/component-base"
+      - dependency-name: "k8s.io/component-helpers"
+      - dependency-name: "k8s.io/controller-manager"
+      - dependency-name: "k8s.io/cri-api"
+      - dependency-name: "k8s.io/csi-translation-lib"
+      - dependency-name: "k8s.io/kube-aggregator"
+      - dependency-name: "k8s.io/kube-controller-manager"
+      - dependency-name: "k8s.io/kube-proxy"
+      - dependency-name: "k8s.io/kube-scheduler"
+      - dependency-name: "k8s.io/kubectl"
+      - dependency-name: "k8s.io/kubelet"
+      - dependency-name: "k8s.io/legacy-cloud-providers"
+      - dependency-name: "k8s.io/metrics"
+      - dependency-name: "k8s.io/mount-utils"
+      - dependency-name: "k8s.io/pod-security-admission"
+      - dependency-name: "k8s.io/sample-apiserver"
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 516081f77..0f873f295 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ replace (
 	github.com/portworx/sched-ops => github.com/portworx/sched-ops v0.20.4-openstorage-rc3
 	gomodules.xyz/jsonpatch/v2 => github.com/gomodules/jsonpatch/v2 v2.2.0
 	google.golang.org/grpc => google.golang.org/grpc v1.35.0
+	//
+	// k8s.io/kubernetes depends on these k8s.io packages, but unversioned
+	//
 	k8s.io/api => k8s.io/api v0.22.0
 	k8s.io/apiextensions-apiserver => k8s.io/apiextensions-apiserver v0.22.0
 	k8s.io/apimachinery => k8s.io/apimachinery v0.22.0