diff --git a/Gopkg.lock b/Gopkg.lock
index 2c4cd88d2..0c6bf1787 100644
--- a/Gopkg.lock
+++ b/Gopkg.lock
@@ -373,8 +373,8 @@
 [[projects]]
   name = "k8s.io/client-go"
   packages = ["discovery","discovery/fake","dynamic","kubernetes","kubernetes/scheme","kubernetes/typed/admissionregistration/v1alpha1","kubernetes/typed/apps/v1beta1","kubernetes/typed/apps/v1beta2","kubernetes/typed/authentication/v1","kubernetes/typed/authentication/v1beta1","kubernetes/typed/authorization/v1","kubernetes/typed/authorization/v1beta1","kubernetes/typed/autoscaling/v1","kubernetes/typed/autoscaling/v2beta1","kubernetes/typed/batch/v1","kubernetes/typed/batch/v1beta1","kubernetes/typed/batch/v2alpha1","kubernetes/typed/certificates/v1beta1","kubernetes/typed/core/v1","kubernetes/typed/extensions/v1beta1","kubernetes/typed/networking/v1","kubernetes/typed/policy/v1beta1","kubernetes/typed/rbac/v1","kubernetes/typed/rbac/v1alpha1","kubernetes/typed/rbac/v1beta1","kubernetes/typed/scheduling/v1alpha1","kubernetes/typed/settings/v1alpha1","kubernetes/typed/storage/v1","kubernetes/typed/storage/v1beta1","pkg/version","plugin/pkg/client/auth/azure","plugin/pkg/client/auth/gcp","plugin/pkg/client/auth/oidc","rest","rest/watch","testing","third_party/forked/golang/template","tools/auth","tools/cache","tools/clientcmd","tools/clientcmd/api","tools/clientcmd/api/latest","tools/clientcmd/api/v1","tools/metrics","tools/pager","tools/reference","tools/remotecommand","transport","transport/spdy","util/cert","util/exec","util/flowcontrol","util/homedir","util/integer","util/jsonpath","util/workqueue"]
-  revision = "35874c597fed17ca62cd197e516d7d5ff9a2958c"
-  version = "v5.0.0"
+  revision = "2ae454230481a7cb5544325e12ad7658ecccd19b"
+  version = "v5.0.1"
 
 [[projects]]
   branch = "release-1.8"
diff --git a/vendor/k8s.io/client-go/pkg/version/base.go b/vendor/k8s.io/client-go/pkg/version/base.go
index 8dc21a97d..8f81879f5 100644
--- a/vendor/k8s.io/client-go/pkg/version/base.go
+++ b/vendor/k8s.io/client-go/pkg/version/base.go
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ var (
 	// semantic version is a git hash, but the version itself is no
 	// longer the direct output of "git describe", but a slight
 	// translation to be semver compliant.
-	gitVersion   string = "v1.8.0+$Format:%h$"
+	gitVersion   string = "v1.8.1+$Format:%h$"
 	gitCommit    string = "$Format:%H$"    // sha1 from git, output of $(git rev-parse HEAD)
 	gitTreeState string = "not a git tree" // state of git tree, either "clean" or "dirty"