diff --git a/.github/kubeconform.sh b/.github/kubeconform.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..37aacb959
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/kubeconform.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -euo pipefail
+
+KUBECONFORM_VERSION="v0.6.3"
+# https://github.com/yannh/kubeconform/issues/51
+CRD_SPEC_URL="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/api/openapi-spec/v3/apis__apiextensions.k8s.io__v1_openapi.json"
+OS=$(uname)
+
+CHANGED_CHARTS=${CHANGED_CHARTS:-${1:-}}
+if [ -n "$CHANGED_CHARTS" ];
+then
+  CHART_DIRS=$CHANGED_CHARTS
+else
+  CHART_DIRS=$(ls -d charts/*)
+fi
+
+# install kubeconform
+curl --silent --show-error --fail --location --output /tmp/kubeconform.tar.gz "https://github.com/yannh/kubeconform/releases/download/${KUBECONFORM_VERSION}/kubeconform-${OS}-amd64.tar.gz"
+tar -xf /tmp/kubeconform.tar.gz kubeconform
+
+# validate charts
+for CHART_DIR in ${CHART_DIRS}; do
+  echo "Running kubeconform for folder: '$CHART_DIR'"
+
+  # Note: -ignore-missing-schemas could be added if needed, but not currently
+  # needed since we have the schema necessary to validate the CRDs themselves.
+  #
+  # Also, if at some point we needed to validate things _using_ these CRDs,
+  # they're available via
+  # https://github.com/datreeio/CRDs-catalog/tree/main/datadoghq.com
+  helm dep up "${CHART_DIR}" && helm template --kube-version "${KUBERNETES_VERSION#v}" \
+        --values "${CHART_DIR}"/ci/kubeconform-values.yaml "${CHART_DIR}" \
+    | ./kubeconform -schema-location default -schema-location "$CRD_SPEC_URL" \
+        -output pretty -verbose -kubernetes-version "${KUBERNETES_VERSION#v}" -
+done
diff --git a/.github/kubeval.sh b/.github/kubeval.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 181f7c84c..000000000
--- a/.github/kubeval.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-set -euo pipefail
-
-KUBEVAL_VERSION="v0.16.1"
-SCHEMA_LOCATION="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yannh/kubernetes-json-schema/master"
-OS=$(uname)
-
-CHANGED_CHARTS=${CHANGED_CHARTS:-${1:-}}
-if [ -n "$CHANGED_CHARTS" ];
-then
-  CHART_DIRS=$CHANGED_CHARTS
-else
-  CHART_DIRS=$(ls -d charts/*)
-fi
-
-# install kubeval
-curl --silent --show-error --fail --location --output /tmp/kubeval.tar.gz "https://github.com/instrumenta/kubeval/releases/download/${KUBEVAL_VERSION}/kubeval-${OS}-amd64.tar.gz"
-tar -xf /tmp/kubeval.tar.gz kubeval
-
-# validate charts
-for CHART_DIR in ${CHART_DIRS}; do
-  echo "Running kubeval for folder: '$CHART_DIR'"
-  helm dep up "${CHART_DIR}" && helm template --kube-version "${KUBERNETES_VERSION#v}" --values "${CHART_DIR}"/ci/kubeval-values.yaml "${CHART_DIR}" | ./kubeval --strict --ignore-missing-schemas --kubernetes-version "${KUBERNETES_VERSION#v}" --schema-location "${SCHEMA_LOCATION}"
-done
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yaml b/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
index c842ec95e..b1c814826 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Run helm-docs
         run: .github/helm-docs.sh
 
-  kubeval-chart:
+  kubeconform-chart:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     needs:
       - changed
@@ -80,12 +80,10 @@ jobs:
         # https://github.com/instrumenta/kubernetes-json-schema is no
         # longer updated
         k8s:
-          # - v1.14.10 (deprecated with kind 1.16)
-          - v1.16.15
-          - v1.18.20
           - v1.22.9
           - v1.24.2
-          # v1.25.2 (when agent 7.40 is out)
+          - v1.25.14
+          - v1.26.9
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v3
@@ -95,26 +93,25 @@ jobs:
         run: helm repo add datadog https://helm.datadoghq.com && helm repo update
       - name: Add KSM helm repo
         run: helm repo add kube-state-metrics https://prometheus-community.github.io/helm-charts
-      - name: Run kubeval
+      - name: Run kubeconform
         env:
           KUBERNETES_VERSION: ${{ matrix.k8s }}
           CHANGED_CHARTS: ${{needs.changed.outputs.charts}}
-        run: .github/kubeval.sh
+        run: .github/kubeconform.sh
 
   install-chart:
     name: install-chart
     runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
     needs:
       - lint-chart
-      - kubeval-chart
+      - kubeconform-chart
     strategy:
       matrix:
         k8s:
-          - v1.16.15
-          - v1.18.20
           - v1.22.9
           - v1.24.2
-          - v1.25.2
+          - v1.25.14
+          - v1.26.9
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v3
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 9f0bb268c..089390f06 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 charts/*/charts
 helm-docs
-kubeval
+kubeconform
 .idea
 vendor/
 .vscode
diff --git a/charts/datadog-crds/ci/kubeval-values.yaml b/charts/datadog-crds/ci/kubeconform-values.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from charts/datadog-crds/ci/kubeval-values.yaml
rename to charts/datadog-crds/ci/kubeconform-values.yaml
diff --git a/charts/datadog-operator/ci/kubeval-values.yaml b/charts/datadog-operator/ci/kubeconform-values.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from charts/datadog-operator/ci/kubeval-values.yaml
rename to charts/datadog-operator/ci/kubeconform-values.yaml
diff --git a/charts/datadog/ci/kubeval-values.yaml b/charts/datadog/ci/kubeconform-values.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from charts/datadog/ci/kubeval-values.yaml
rename to charts/datadog/ci/kubeconform-values.yaml
diff --git a/charts/extended-daemon-set/ci/kubeval-values.yaml b/charts/extended-daemon-set/ci/kubeconform-values.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from charts/extended-daemon-set/ci/kubeval-values.yaml
rename to charts/extended-daemon-set/ci/kubeconform-values.yaml
diff --git a/charts/observability-pipelines-worker/ci/kubeval-values.yaml b/charts/observability-pipelines-worker/ci/kubeconform-values.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from charts/observability-pipelines-worker/ci/kubeval-values.yaml
rename to charts/observability-pipelines-worker/ci/kubeconform-values.yaml
diff --git a/charts/synthetics-private-location/ci/kubeval-values.yaml b/charts/synthetics-private-location/ci/kubeconform-values.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from charts/synthetics-private-location/ci/kubeval-values.yaml
rename to charts/synthetics-private-location/ci/kubeconform-values.yaml