diff --git a/clustertool/go.mod b/clustertool/go.mod
index 7effb38f40d34..19fe1f52bc18c 100644
--- a/clustertool/go.mod
+++ b/clustertool/go.mod
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ require (
     sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime v0.19.1
     sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api v0.18.0
     sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml v0.18.1
+    sigs.k8s.io/yaml v1.4.0
 )
 
 replace github.com/imdario/mergo => github.com/imdario/mergo v0.3.16
@@ -285,5 +286,4 @@ require (
     oras.land/oras-go v1.2.5 // indirect
     sigs.k8s.io/json v0.0.0-20221116044647-bc3834ca7abd // indirect
     sigs.k8s.io/structured-merge-diff/v4 v4.4.1 // indirect
-    sigs.k8s.io/yaml v1.4.0 // indirect
 )
diff --git a/clustertool/go.sum b/clustertool/go.sum
index 7324e8490be76..7b5d2b8cda32e 100644
--- a/clustertool/go.sum
+++ b/clustertool/go.sum
@@ -448,8 +448,6 @@ github.com/knadh/koanf/parsers/yaml v0.1.0 h1:ZZ8/iGfRLvKSaMEECEBPM1HQslrZADk8fP
 github.com/knadh/koanf/parsers/yaml v0.1.0/go.mod h1:cvbUDC7AL23pImuQP0oRw/hPuccrNBS2bps8asS0CwY=
 github.com/knadh/koanf/providers/file v1.1.2 h1:aCC36YGOgV5lTtAFz2qkgtWdeQsgfxUkxDOe+2nQY3w=
 github.com/knadh/koanf/providers/file v1.1.2/go.mod h1:/faSBcv2mxPVjFrXck95qeoyoZ5myJ6uxN8OOVNJJCI=
-github.com/knadh/koanf/v2 v2.1.1 h1:/R8eXqasSTsmDCsAyYj+81Wteg8AqrV9CP6gvsTsOmM=
-github.com/knadh/koanf/v2 v2.1.1/go.mod h1:4mnTRbZCK+ALuBXHZMjDfG9y714L7TykVnZkXbMU3Es=
 github.com/knadh/koanf/v2 v2.1.2 h1:I2rtLRqXRy1p01m/utEtpZSSA6dcJbgGVuE27kW2PzQ=
 github.com/knadh/koanf/v2 v2.1.2/go.mod h1:Gphfaen0q1Fc1HTgJgSTC4oRX9R2R5ErYMZJy8fLJBo=
 github.com/konsorten/go-windows-terminal-sequences v1.0.1/go.mod h1:T0+1ngSBFLxvqU3pZ+m/2kptfBszLMUkC4ZK/EgS/cQ=
diff --git a/clustertool/pkg/kubectlcmds/apply.go b/clustertool/pkg/kubectlcmds/apply.go
index 5c9c032810ba9..ac0f16964403a 100644
--- a/clustertool/pkg/kubectlcmds/apply.go
+++ b/clustertool/pkg/kubectlcmds/apply.go
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ import (
     "path/filepath"
 
     "github.com/rs/zerolog/log"
-    "gopkg.in/yaml.v3"
     "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1/unstructured"
     "k8s.io/client-go/tools/clientcmd"
     "k8s.io/client-go/util/homedir"
@@ -17,6 +16,7 @@ import (
     "sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/krusty"
     "sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/filesys"
     "sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/kio"
+    "sigs.k8s.io/yaml"
 )
 
 // getKubeClient initializes and returns a controller-runtime client.Client