diff --git a/tests/e2e/ansible/group_vars/all b/tests/e2e/ansible/group_vars/all
index c53d87d6..3a786520 100644
--- a/tests/e2e/ansible/group_vars/all
+++ b/tests/e2e/ansible/group_vars/all
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ kubeadm_pkgs:
   centos:
     - conntrack
     - socat
-k8s_version: v1.24.0
+k8s_version: v1.30.1
 test_pkgs:
   ubuntu:
     - jq
diff --git a/tests/e2e/ansible/install_containerd.yaml b/tests/e2e/ansible/install_containerd.yaml
index 5ea9ee1b..1cbfcae4 100644
--- a/tests/e2e/ansible/install_containerd.yaml
+++ b/tests/e2e/ansible/install_containerd.yaml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
     - name: Re-create containerd config
       shell: |
         mkdir -p /etc/containerd/
-        containerd config default > /etc/containerd/config.toml
+        containerd config default | sed -e 's/\(SystemdCgroup =\).*/\1 true/g' | tee /etc/containerd/config.toml
       args:
         executable: /bin/bash
     - name: Restart containerd service
diff --git a/tests/e2e/ansible/install_kubeadm.yaml b/tests/e2e/ansible/install_kubeadm.yaml
index b8dca6e8..22540a8b 100644
--- a/tests/e2e/ansible/install_kubeadm.yaml
+++ b/tests/e2e/ansible/install_kubeadm.yaml
@@ -10,16 +10,15 @@
   become: yes
   vars:
     cni_home: "/opt/cni"
-    cni_version: "v1.1.1"
+    cni_version: "v1.5.1"
     flannel_home: "/opt/flannel"
-    flannel_version: "v0.19.1"
+    flannel_version: "v0.25.6"
     kubeadm_cri_runtime_socket: "/run/containerd/containerd.sock"
     kubeadm_conf_dir: "/etc/kubeadm"
     kubelet_bin: "/usr/local/bin/kubelet"
     kubelet_service_dir: "/etc/systemd/system/kubelet.service.d"
     kubelet_service_file: "/etc/systemd/system/kubelet.service"
-    # Use 'cgroupfs' with containerd, 'systemd' with crio?
-    kubelet_cgroup_driver: "cgroupfs"
+    kubelet_cgroup_driver: "systemd"
   tasks:
     - name: Install kubeadm required packages
       package:
@@ -53,17 +52,24 @@
         creates: /usr/local/bin/crictl
         dest: /usr/local/bin
         remote_src: yes
-    - name: Install kube binaries
+    - name: Download kube binaries
       get_url:
-        url: https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/{{ k8s_version }}/bin/linux/{{ target_arch  }}/{{ item }}
-        dest: /usr/local/bin
-        mode: '+x'
+        url: https://dl.k8s.io/{{ k8s_version }}/kubernetes-node-linux-{{ target_arch  }}.tar.gz
+        dest: /tmp/kubernetes-node-linux.tar.gz
       retries: 3
       delay: 10
-      with_items:
-        - kubeadm
-        - kubelet
-        - kubectl
+    - name: Install kube binaries
+      unarchive:
+        src: /tmp/kubernetes-node-linux.tar.gz
+        dest: /usr/local/bin
+        remote_src: yes
+        extra_opts:
+          - --strip-components
+          - 3
+        #include:
+        #  - kubeadm
+        #  - kubectl
+        #  - kubelet
     - name: Remove zram-generator-defaults in Fedora
       ansible.builtin.yum:
         name: zram-generator-defaults
diff --git a/tests/e2e/ansible/templates/kubeadm.conf.j2 b/tests/e2e/ansible/templates/kubeadm.conf.j2
index e91dafed..6343120b 100644
--- a/tests/e2e/ansible/templates/kubeadm.conf.j2
+++ b/tests/e2e/ansible/templates/kubeadm.conf.j2
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ apiServer:
   extraArgs:
     feature-gates: PodOverhead=true
   timeoutForControlPlane: 4m0s
-imageRepository: k8s.gcr.io
+imageRepository: registry.k8s.io
 scheduler:
   extraArgs:
     feature-gates: PodOverhead=true