diff --git a/eng/versioning/external_dependencies.txt b/eng/versioning/external_dependencies.txt
index d5644c733269..4300df19b15d 100644
--- a/eng/versioning/external_dependencies.txt
+++ b/eng/versioning/external_dependencies.txt
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ commons-codec:commons-codec;1.15
 commons-net:commons-net;3.9.0
 io.cloudevents:cloudevents-api;2.2.0
 io.cloudevents:cloudevents-core;2.2.0
-io.fabric8:kubernetes-client;5.12.3
+io.fabric8:kubernetes-client;6.12.1
 io.micrometer:micrometer-core;1.9.17
 io.micrometer:micrometer-registry-azure-monitor;1.9.17
 io.micrometer:micrometer-registry-graphite;1.9.17
diff --git a/sdk/resourcemanager/azure-resourcemanager-samples/pom.xml b/sdk/resourcemanager/azure-resourcemanager-samples/pom.xml
index 708b387ded37..d8fab6f2d7a7 100644
--- a/sdk/resourcemanager/azure-resourcemanager-samples/pom.xml
+++ b/sdk/resourcemanager/azure-resourcemanager-samples/pom.xml
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>io.fabric8</groupId>
       <artifactId>kubernetes-client</artifactId>
-      <version>5.12.3</version> <!-- {x-version-update;io.fabric8:kubernetes-client;external_dependency} -->
+      <version>6.12.1</version> <!-- {x-version-update;io.fabric8:kubernetes-client;external_dependency} -->
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.microsoft.sqlserver</groupId>
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@
             <bannedDependencies>
               <includes>
                 <include>org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient:[4.5.14]</include> <!-- {x-include-update;org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient;external_dependency} -->
-                <include>io.fabric8:kubernetes-client:[5.12.3]</include> <!-- {x-include-update;io.fabric8:kubernetes-client;external_dependency} -->
+                <include>io.fabric8:kubernetes-client:[6.12.1]</include> <!-- {x-include-update;io.fabric8:kubernetes-client;external_dependency} -->
                 <include>com.jcraft:jsch:[0.1.55]</include> <!-- {x-include-update;resourcemanager_com.jcraft:jsch;external_dependency} -->
                 <include>org.slf4j:slf4j-simple:[1.7.36]</include> <!-- {x-include-update;org.slf4j:slf4j-simple;external_dependency} -->
                 <include>com.google.guava:guava:[33.1.0-jre]</include> <!-- {x-include-update;com.google.guava:guava;external_dependency} -->