diff --git a/installers/install_kubeadm_cluster.sh b/installers/install_kubeadm_cluster.sh
index 84a4872..70f6d9d 100755
--- a/installers/install_kubeadm_cluster.sh
+++ b/installers/install_kubeadm_cluster.sh
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 #installs kubernetes packages
 function install_kube() {
     [ -z "${DEBUG_INSTALL}" ] || DEBUG beginning of function
-    K8S_VERSION=1.20.14-00
+    K8S_VERSION=1.23.3-00
     # Kubernetes releases can be found here: https://kubernetes.io/releases/
     # To check other available versions, run the following command
     # curl -s https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/dists/kubernetes-xenial/main/binary-amd64/Packages | grep Version | awk '{print $2}'
@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@
     sudo apt-get update
     echo "Installing Kubernetes Packages ..."
     sudo apt-get install -y kubelet=${K8S_VERSION} kubeadm=${K8S_VERSION} kubectl=${K8S_VERSION}
+    cat << EOF | sudo tee -a /etc/default/kubelet
+    KUBELET_EXTRA_ARGS="--cgroup-driver=cgroupfs"
+EOF
     sudo apt-mark hold kubelet kubeadm kubectl
     [ -z "${DEBUG_INSTALL}" ] || DEBUG end of function
 }
@@ -97,7 +100,11 @@
 
 function install_k8s_storageclass() {
     [ -z "${DEBUG_INSTALL}" ] || DEBUG beginning of function
-    OPENEBS_VERSION="1.12.0"
+    echo "Installing open-iscsi"
+    sudo apt-get update
+    sudo apt-get install open-iscsi
+    sudo systemctl enable --now iscsid
+    OPENEBS_VERSION="3.1.0"
     echo "Installing OpenEBS"
     helm repo add openebs https://openebs.github.io/charts
     helm repo update