diff --git a/ansible/roles/zookeeper-upgrade/defaults/main.yml b/ansible/roles/zookeeper-upgrade/defaults/main.yml
index d838ce7c4a..89f3839088 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/zookeeper-upgrade/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/ansible/roles/zookeeper-upgrade/defaults/main.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ---
-zookeeper_version: 3.7.1
+zookeeper_version: 3.8.2
 zookeeper_url: "https://downloads.apache.org/zookeeper/stable/apache-zookeeper-{{ zookeeper_version }}-bin.tar.gz"
 zookeeper_port: 2181
 zk_jvm_opts: "-Xms128m -Xmx128m"