diff --git a/lib/Test/Sandwich/Contexts/Kubernetes/KataContainers.hs b/lib/Test/Sandwich/Contexts/Kubernetes/KataContainers.hs
--- a/lib/Test/Sandwich/Contexts/Kubernetes/KataContainers.hs
+++ b/lib/Test/Sandwich/Contexts/Kubernetes/KataContainers.hs
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
 defaultKataContainersOptions :: KataContainersOptions
 defaultKataContainersOptions = KataContainersOptions {
   kataContainersSourceCheckout = SourceCheckoutNixDerivation kataContainersDerivation
-  , kataContainersKataDeployImage = Just "quay.io/kata-containers/kata-deploy:3.9.0"
+  , kataContainersKataDeployImage = Just kataContainersDeployImage
   , kataContainersPreloadImages = True
   , kataContainersLabelNode = True
   }
@@ -173,15 +173,18 @@
       loadImageIfNecessary' kcc (ImageLoadSpecDocker image IfNotPresent)
 
   -- Install kata-deploy
+  debug [i|Applying kata-rbac.yaml|]
   createProcessWithLoggingAndStdin ((proc kubectlBinary ["apply", "-f", "-"]) { env = Just env }) (toString rbacContents)
     >>= waitForProcess >>= (`shouldBe` ExitSuccess)
+  debug [i|Applying kata-deploy.yaml|]
   createProcessWithLoggingAndStdin ((proc kubectlBinary ["apply", "-f", "-"]) { env = Just env }) (toString deploymentContents)
     >>= waitForProcess >>= (`shouldBe` ExitSuccess)
 
+  debug [i|Waiting for kata-deploy pod to exist|]
   podName <- waitUntil 600 $ do
     pods <- (T.words . toText) <$> readCreateProcessWithLogging ((
-      (proc "kubectl" ["-n", "kube-system"
-                      , "get", "pods", "-o=name"]) { env = Just env }
+      (proc kubectlBinary ["-n", "kube-system"
+                          , "get", "pods", "-o=name"]) { env = Just env }
       ) { env = Just env }) ""
 
     case headMay [t | t <- pods, "pod/kata-deploy" `T.isPrefixOf` t] of
@@ -207,24 +210,31 @@
     toText sout `textShouldContain` "sleep infinity"
 
   -- Now install the runtime classes
+  debug [i|Applying kata-runtimeClasses.yaml|]
   runtimeClassesContents <- liftIO $ T.readFile $ kataRoot </> "tools/packaging/kata-deploy/runtimeclasses/kata-runtimeClasses.yaml"
   createProcessWithLoggingAndStdin ((proc kubectlBinary ["apply", "-f", "-"]) { env = Just env }) (toString runtimeClassesContents)
     >>= waitForProcess >>= (`shouldBe` ExitSuccess)
 
   -- Finally, label the node(s)
+  debug [i|Labeling nodes with katacontainers.io/kata-runtime=true|]
   when kataContainersLabelNode $ do
     createProcessWithLoggingAndStdin ((proc kubectlBinary ["label", "nodes", "--all", "--overwrite", "katacontainers.io/kata-runtime=true"]) { env = Just env }) (toString deploymentContents)
       >>= waitForProcess >>= (`shouldBe` ExitSuccess)
 
   action $ KataContainersContext options
 
+kataContainersDeployImage :: Text
+kataContainersDeployImage = "quay.io/kata-containers/kata-deploy:3.19.1"
+
+-- | Checkout of the @kata-containers@ repo. Currently at release 3.19.1.
+kataContainersDerivation :: Text
 kataContainersDerivation = [__i|{fetchFromGitHub}:
 
                                 fetchFromGitHub {
                                   owner = "kata-containers";
                                   repo = "kata-containers";
-                                  rev = "cdaaf708a18da8e5f7e2b9824fa3e43b524893a5";
-                                  sha256 = "sha256-aBcu59LybgZ9xkCDUzZXb60FeClQNG1ivfC6lWQdlb0=";
+                                  rev = "acae4480ac84701d7354e679714cc9d084b37f44";
+                                  sha256 = "sha256-h9Jsto2l1NhQEwIQoecT/D+yt/QbGoqqH/l6NNzJOwk=";
                                 }
                                |]
 
diff --git a/sandwich-contexts-kubernetes.cabal b/sandwich-contexts-kubernetes.cabal
--- a/sandwich-contexts-kubernetes.cabal
+++ b/sandwich-contexts-kubernetes.cabal
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 -- see: https://github.com/sol/hpack
 
 name:           sandwich-contexts-kubernetes
-version:        0.1.1.0
+version:        0.1.1.1
 synopsis:       Sandwich test contexts for Kubernetes
 description:    Please see README.md
 author:         Tom McLaughlin
@@ -125,7 +125,6 @@
   ghc-options: -Wunused-packages -Wall -Wredundant-constraints -threaded -rtsopts -with-rtsopts=-N
   build-depends:
       base >=4.11 && <5
-    , exceptions
     , random
     , relude
     , sandwich