diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 71d6d769..986385b7 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ The mini-lab is a small, virtual setup to locally run the metal-stack. It deploy
 
 - Linux machine with hardware virtualization support
 - kvm as hypervisor for the VMs (you can check through the `kvm-ok` command)
-- [docker](https://www.docker.com/) >= 20.10.13 (for using kind and our deployment base image)
-- [kind](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind/releases) == v0.22.0 (for hosting the metal control plane)
+- [docker](https://www.docker.com/) >= 24.x.y (for using kind and our deployment base image)
+- [kind](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind/releases) == v0.23.0 (for hosting the metal control plane)
 - [containerlab](https://containerlab.dev/install/) >= v0.47.1
 - the lab creates a docker network on your host machine (`172.17.0.1`), this hopefully does not overlap with other networks you have
 - (recommended) haveged to have enough random entropy (only needed if the PXE process does not work)
diff --git a/inventories/group_vars/partition/common.yaml b/inventories/group_vars/partition/common.yaml
index a8e0e136..c1e07186 100644
--- a/inventories/group_vars/partition/common.yaml
+++ b/inventories/group_vars/partition/common.yaml
@@ -15,3 +15,5 @@ metal_partition_metal_api_grpc_client_cert: "{{ lookup('file', 'certs/grpc/clien
 metal_partition_metal_api_grpc_client_key: "{{ lookup('file', 'certs/grpc/client-key.pem') }}"
 
 metal_partition_mgmt_gateway: 172.17.0.1
+
+metal_python_version: v0.31.2
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