diff --git a/charts/tembo-operator/Chart.lock b/charts/tembo-operator/Chart.lock
index ba2804e61..701efa325 100644
--- a/charts/tembo-operator/Chart.lock
+++ b/charts/tembo-operator/Chart.lock
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 dependencies:
 - name: cloudnative-pg
   repository: https://cloudnative-pg.github.io/charts
-  version: 0.21.6
-digest: sha256:3922d990e9dec07c6dda1f7b8799e9cfd2ef28450357f5a3f260a3d4773e5db2
-generated: "2024-09-04T09:47:10.610286988-05:00"
+  version: 0.22.1
+digest: sha256:3154534b59a8f8aa31308f2c3a13358241708a677a46f9012d19f69425ce882f
+generated: "2024-11-26T16:09:35.805555115-06:00"
diff --git a/charts/tembo-operator/Chart.yaml b/charts/tembo-operator/Chart.yaml
index c635b1f73..1bff5aefd 100644
--- a/charts/tembo-operator/Chart.yaml
+++ b/charts/tembo-operator/Chart.yaml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ name: tembo-operator
 description: "Helm chart to deploy the tembo-operator"
 type: application
 icon: https://cloud.tembo.io/images/TemboElephant.png
-version: 0.8.0
+version: 0.9.0
 home: https://tembo.io
 sources:
   - https://github.com/tembo-io/tembo
@@ -17,6 +17,6 @@ maintainers:
     url: https://tembocommunity.slack.com
 dependencies:
   - name: cloudnative-pg
-    version: 0.21.6
+    version: 0.22.1
     repository: https://cloudnative-pg.github.io/charts
     condition: cloudnative-pg.enabled
diff --git a/charts/tembo-operator/charts/cloudnative-pg-0.21.6.tgz b/charts/tembo-operator/charts/cloudnative-pg-0.21.6.tgz
deleted file mode 100644
index 3028f0f66..000000000
Binary files a/charts/tembo-operator/charts/cloudnative-pg-0.21.6.tgz and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/charts/tembo-operator/charts/cloudnative-pg-0.22.1.tgz b/charts/tembo-operator/charts/cloudnative-pg-0.22.1.tgz
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3d7d7e972
Binary files /dev/null and b/charts/tembo-operator/charts/cloudnative-pg-0.22.1.tgz differ
diff --git a/tembo-operator/justfile b/tembo-operator/justfile
index 1f02b674c..4c5057090 100644
--- a/tembo-operator/justfile
+++ b/tembo-operator/justfile
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ ORG := "localhost:5001"
 VERSION := `git rev-parse HEAD`
 SEMVER_VERSION := `grep version Cargo.toml | awk -F"\"" '{print $2}' | head -n 1`
 NAMESPACE := "default"
-KUBE_VERSION := env_var_or_default('KUBE_VERSION', '1.25.8')
+KUBE_VERSION := env_var_or_default('KUBE_VERSION', '1.29.8')
 STORAGE_CLASS_NAME := "standard"
 
 default: