diff --git a/base-defaultconfig/init.sh b/base-defaultconfig/init.sh
index 00b1b00..9572875 100644
--- a/base-defaultconfig/init.sh
+++ b/base-defaultconfig/init.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-set -x
+set -exo pipefail
 [ "$(pwd)" != "/etc/mysql/conf.d" ] && cp * /etc/mysql/conf.d/
 
 HOST_ID=${HOSTNAME##*-}
@@ -32,8 +32,8 @@ function wsrepForceBootstrap {
 
 if [ $HOST_ID -eq 0 ]; then
   echo "This is the 1st statefulset pod. Checking if the statefulset is down ..."
-  getent hosts mariadb-ready
-  [ $? -eq 2 ] && {
+  GETENT_EXIT=0; getent hosts mariadb-ready || GETENT_EXIT="$?"
+  [ $GETENT_EXIT -eq 2 ] && {
     # https://github.com/docker-library/mariadb/commit/f76084f0f9dc13f29cce48c727440eb79b4e92fa#diff-b0fa4b30392406b32de6b8ffe36e290dR80
     if [ ! -d "$DATADIR/mysql" ]; then
       echo "No database in $DATADIR; configuring $POD_NAME for initial start"
@@ -93,4 +93,4 @@ else
 fi
 
 # https://github.com/docker-library/mariadb/blob/master/10.2/docker-entrypoint.sh#L62
-mysqld --verbose --help --log-bin-index="$(mktemp -u)" | tee /tmp/mariadb-start-config | grep -e ^version -e ^datadir -e ^wsrep -e ^binlog -e ^character-set -e ^collation
+mysqld --verbose --help --log-bin-index="$(mktemp -u)" 2>&1 | tee /tmp/mariadb-start-config | grep -e ^version -e ^datadir -e ^wsrep -e ^binlog -e ^character-set -e ^collation
diff --git a/base/kustomization.yaml b/base/kustomization.yaml
index 387cd35..b71a1d6 100644
--- a/base/kustomization.yaml
+++ b/base/kustomization.yaml
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+# yaml-language-server: $schema=https://json.schemastore.org/kustomization.json
 apiVersion: kustomize.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
 kind: Kustomization
 
@@ -6,3 +7,9 @@ resources:
 - mariadb-ready-service.yaml
 - mysql-service.yaml
 - mariadb-statefulset.yaml
+
+images:
+- name: mariadb
+  newTag: 10.11.7-jammy@sha256:f94bd863dc16bf7b44957586d0c325462d4a65598d04ab952a9b73120a259b21
+- name: prom/mysqld-exporter
+  newTag: v0.14.0@sha256:eb6fe170738bf9181c51f5bc89f93adb26672ec49ffdcb22f55c24834003b45d
diff --git a/base/mariadb-statefulset.yaml b/base/mariadb-statefulset.yaml
index 58ad66b..c78c140 100644
--- a/base/mariadb-statefulset.yaml
+++ b/base/mariadb-statefulset.yaml
@@ -47,10 +47,10 @@ spec:
           mountPath: /etc/mysql/conf.d
         - name: initdb
           mountPath: /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d
-        image: mariadb:10.5.19-focal@sha256:ce75a36261b12948b411f6debb71254d92889c8a06e2ebc34c761f90416b1024
+        image: mariadb
       containers:
       - name: mariadb
-        image: mariadb:10.5.19-focal@sha256:ce75a36261b12948b411f6debb71254d92889c8a06e2ebc34c761f90416b1024
+        image: mariadb
         ports:
         - containerPort: 3306
           name: mysql
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ spec:
         - name: initdb
           mountPath: /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d
       - name: metrics
-        image: prom/mysqld-exporter:v0.14.0@sha256:eb6fe170738bf9181c51f5bc89f93adb26672ec49ffdcb22f55c24834003b45d
+        image: prom/mysqld-exporter
         env:
         - name: DATA_SOURCE_NAME
           # https://github.com/prometheus/mysqld_exporter#required-grants