diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 03e0f87..7cb776b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # Changelog
 
 ## master
+* [CHANGE] Use k8s-libsonnet 1.36. k8s-libsonnet removed 1.30, which broke the README instructions and `make test-readme`
 * [ENHANCEMENT] Add bigger tenants and configure default compactor tenant shards
 
 ## 1.17.1 / 2024-10-23
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 65d9170..d096a68 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ To generate the YAMLs for deploying Cortex:
 
     ```console
     $ mkdir <name> && cd <name>
-    $ tk init --k8s=1.30 # this includes github.com/jsonnet-libs/k8s-libsonnet/1.30@main
+    $ tk init --k8s=1.36 # this includes github.com/jsonnet-libs/k8s-libsonnet/1.36@main
     $ jb install github.com/cortexproject/cortex-jsonnet/cortex@main
     ```
 
diff --git a/scripts/test-readme.sh b/scripts/test-readme.sh
index 55120b0..c7e97df 100755
--- a/scripts/test-readme.sh
+++ b/scripts/test-readme.sh
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ set -xe
 rm -rf $1
 mkdir -p $1
 cd $1
-tk init --k8s=1.30
+tk init --k8s=1.36
 jb install github.com/cortexproject/cortex-jsonnet/cortex@main
 rm -fr ./vendor/cortex
 cp -r ../../cortex ./vendor/