diff --git a/sdk/RELEASE.md b/sdk/RELEASE.md
index ccc85cb4832c..03c3d86f1cd2 100644
--- a/sdk/RELEASE.md
+++ b/sdk/RELEASE.md
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
 * Load v1 and v2 component yaml into v2 ComponentSpec and convert v1 component
   spec to v2 component spec [\#6497](https://github.com/kubeflow/pipelines/issues/6497)
 * Format all Python files under SDK folder. [\#6501](https://github.com/kubeflow/pipelines/issues/6501)
+* Update upper bound on kubernetes constraint in Python SDK. [\#6532](https://github.com/kubeflow/pipelines/pull/6532)
 
 ## Documentation Updates
 
diff --git a/sdk/python/requirements.in b/sdk/python/requirements.in
index 59ed232b93f6..c389eb87aed7 100644
--- a/sdk/python/requirements.in
+++ b/sdk/python/requirements.in
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ docstring-parser>=0.7.3,<1
 # kfp.dsl
 PyYAML>=5.3,<6
 jsonschema>=3.0.1,<4
-kubernetes>=8.0.0,<13
+kubernetes>=8.0.0,<19
 
 # kfp.Client
 kfp-server-api>=1.1.2,<2.0.0
diff --git a/sdk/python/requirements.txt b/sdk/python/requirements.txt
index 106a020d5c29..9cd6d620c788 100644
--- a/sdk/python/requirements.txt
+++ b/sdk/python/requirements.txt
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 #
 #    pip-compile requirements.in
 #
+
 absl-py==0.11.0
     # via -r requirements.in
 attrs==20.3.0
@@ -68,7 +69,7 @@ kfp-pipeline-spec==0.1.9
     # via -r requirements.in
 kfp-server-api==1.3.0
     # via -r requirements.in
-kubernetes==12.0.1
+kubernetes==18.20.0
     # via -r requirements.in
 oauthlib==3.1.0
     # via requests-oauthlib
diff --git a/sdk/python/setup.py b/sdk/python/setup.py
index 52ab99950ae8..fdf1c99dcc91 100644
--- a/sdk/python/setup.py
+++ b/sdk/python/setup.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
     # `Blob.from_string` was introduced in google-cloud-storage 1.20.0
     # https://github.com/googleapis/python-storage/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#1200
     'google-cloud-storage>=1.20.0,<2',
-    'kubernetes>=8.0.0,<13',
+    'kubernetes>=8.0.0,<19',
     # google-api-python-client v2 doesn't work for private dicovery by default:
     # https://github.com/googleapis/google-api-python-client/issues/1225#issuecomment-791058235
     'google-api-python-client>=1.7.8,<2',