diff --git a/perf-tests/requirements.txt b/perf-tests/requirements.txt
index 9d44b3903d..39d7f49bcf 100644
--- a/perf-tests/requirements.txt
+++ b/perf-tests/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 PyYAML==6.0
 requests==2.26.0
-kubernetes==20.13.0
+kubernetes==21.7.0
 pytest==4.4.1
 ipaddress==1.0.23 # >= 1.0.17
 cffi==1.15.0