diff --git a/initutils/Dockerfile b/initutils/Dockerfile
index 60dd577..e0cf94a 100644
--- a/initutils/Dockerfile
+++ b/initutils/Dockerfile
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # same FROM as kafka-jre, to keep pull times down and to provide the same shell distro+version
 FROM debian:stretch-slim@sha256:ea42520331a55094b90f6f6663211d4f5a62c5781673935fe17a4dfced777029
 
-ENV KUBERNETES_VERSION=1.9.3 KUBERNETES_CLIENT_SHA256=2f509c05f0c4e1c1ac9e98879a1924f24546905349457904344d79dc639217be
+ENV KUBERNETES_VERSION=1.9.6 KUBERNETES_CLIENT_SHA256=2b1ab65171bcd43a099d4f7d05d7804c737272270e83f633e1c14ceed9a99133
 
 RUN set -ex; \
   export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive; \