diff --git a/dapr-distributed-calendar/kubernetes-deploy.sh b/dapr-distributed-calendar/kubernetes-deploy.sh
index 613f5ab..2fa3df4 100755
--- a/dapr-distributed-calendar/kubernetes-deploy.sh
+++ b/dapr-distributed-calendar/kubernetes-deploy.sh
@@ -4,14 +4,14 @@
 kubectl create namespace 12-factor-app
 
 # install OTel Operator
-kubectl create namespace opentelemetry
 helm repo add open-telemetry https://open-telemetry.github.io/opentelemetry-helm-charts
 helm repo update
 helm install my-opentelemetry-operator open-telemetry/opentelemetry-operator \
+  --set "manager.collectorImage.repository=otel/opentelemetry-collector-contrib" \
   --set admissionWebhooks.certManager.enabled=false \
-  --set admissionWebhooks.certManager.autoGenerateCert.enabled=true \
-  --set manager.featureGates='operator.autoinstrumentation.go' \
   --namespace opentelemetry \
+  --version 0.66.0 \
+  --create-namespace \
   --wait
 
 # create OTel collector and instrumentation
diff --git a/dapr-distributed-calendar/otel/otel-collector-values.yaml b/dapr-distributed-calendar/otel/otel-collector-values.yaml
index 0b2ef62..d48cb3e 100644
--- a/dapr-distributed-calendar/otel/otel-collector-values.yaml
+++ b/dapr-distributed-calendar/otel/otel-collector-values.yaml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-apiVersion: opentelemetry.io/v1alpha1
+apiVersion: opentelemetry.io/v1beta1
 kind: OpenTelemetryCollector
 metadata:
   name: otel-dapr
@@ -6,12 +6,12 @@ metadata:
   annotations:
     dapr_collector_demo: "true"
 spec:
-  config: |
+  config:
     receivers:
       otlp:
         protocols:
-          grpc:
-          http:
+          grpc: {}
+          http: {}
       prometheus:
         config:
           scrape_configs:
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ spec:
       debug:
         verbosity: detailed
       otlp/jaeger:
-        endpoint: jaeger-collector.observability:4317
+        endpoint: simplest-collector.observability:4317
         tls:
             insecure: true
       prometheus: