diff --git a/scripts/install_kustomize.sh b/scripts/install_kustomize.sh
index a8001a331..6c62df931 100755
--- a/scripts/install_kustomize.sh
+++ b/scripts/install_kustomize.sh
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 
 
-KUSTOMIZE_VERSION=3.1.0 # renovate: datasource=github-releases depName=kubernetes-sigs/kustomize extractVersion=^kustomize/v(?<version>.+)$
+KUSTOMIZE_VERSION=5.8.1 # renovate: datasource=github-releases depName=kubernetes-sigs/kustomize extractVersion=^kustomize/v(?<version>.+)$
 opsys=$(echo "$(uname -s)" | awk '{print tolower($0)}')
 
 # download the release