diff --git a/discovery/discovery_client.go b/discovery/discovery_client.go
index baf87884..ec7ebf05 100644
--- a/discovery/discovery_client.go
+++ b/discovery/discovery_client.go
@@ -52,6 +52,9 @@ const (
 	// defaultTimeout is the maximum amount of time per request when no timeout has been set on a RESTClient.
 	// Defaults to 32s in order to have a distinguishable length of time, relative to other timeouts that exist.
 	defaultTimeout = 32 * time.Second
+
+	// defaultBurst is the default burst to be used with the discovery client's token bucket rate limiter
+	defaultBurst = 300
 )
 
 // DiscoveryInterface holds the methods that discover server-supported API groups,
@@ -456,12 +459,13 @@ func setDiscoveryDefaults(config *restclient.Config) error {
 	if config.Timeout == 0 {
 		config.Timeout = defaultTimeout
 	}
-	if config.Burst == 0 && config.QPS < 100 {
+	// if a burst limit is not already configured
+	if config.Burst == 0 {
 		// discovery is expected to be bursty, increase the default burst
 		// to accommodate looking up resource info for many API groups.
 		// matches burst set by ConfigFlags#ToDiscoveryClient().
 		// see https://issue.k8s.io/86149
-		config.Burst = 100
+		config.Burst = defaultBurst
 	}
 	codec := runtime.NoopEncoder{Decoder: scheme.Codecs.UniversalDecoder()}
 	config.NegotiatedSerializer = serializer.NegotiatedSerializerWrapper(runtime.SerializerInfo{Serializer: codec})
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 9f8eab4c..aac07c70 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ require (
 	golang.org/x/term v0.0.0-20210927222741-03fcf44c2211
 	golang.org/x/time v0.0.0-20220210224613-90d013bbcef8
 	google.golang.org/protobuf v1.28.0
-	k8s.io/api v0.0.0-20220722161209-f77fa25e8904
-	k8s.io/apimachinery v0.0.0-20220722160307-915d89afb4cb
+	k8s.io/api v0.0.0-20220725160253-f6f0d0e54216
+	k8s.io/apimachinery v0.0.0-20220726200055-965218438260
 	k8s.io/klog/v2 v2.70.1
 	k8s.io/kube-openapi v0.0.0-20220627174259-011e075b9cb8
 	k8s.io/utils v0.0.0-20220210201930-3a6ce19ff2f9
@@ -61,6 +61,6 @@ require (
 )
 
 replace (
-	k8s.io/api => k8s.io/api v0.0.0-20220722161209-f77fa25e8904
-	k8s.io/apimachinery => k8s.io/apimachinery v0.0.0-20220722160307-915d89afb4cb
+	k8s.io/api => k8s.io/api v0.0.0-20220725160253-f6f0d0e54216
+	k8s.io/apimachinery => k8s.io/apimachinery v0.0.0-20220726200055-965218438260
 )
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 0af542d9..8f9b0840 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -479,10 +479,10 @@ honnef.co/go/tools v0.0.0-20190523083050-ea95bdfd59fc/go.mod h1:rf3lG4BRIbNafJWh
 honnef.co/go/tools v0.0.1-2019.2.3/go.mod h1:a3bituU0lyd329TUQxRnasdCoJDkEUEAqEt0JzvZhAg=
 honnef.co/go/tools v0.0.1-2020.1.3/go.mod h1:X/FiERA/W4tHapMX5mGpAtMSVEeEUOyHaw9vFzvIQ3k=
 honnef.co/go/tools v0.0.1-2020.1.4/go.mod h1:X/FiERA/W4tHapMX5mGpAtMSVEeEUOyHaw9vFzvIQ3k=
-k8s.io/api v0.0.0-20220722161209-f77fa25e8904 h1:0e3sqfqka9TQC0vBbSDYxUYkxuIjA4xBOErf8T4ldhU=
-k8s.io/api v0.0.0-20220722161209-f77fa25e8904/go.mod h1:ohV8ZX/DUd8BAQLw1YBcZo6qQ0u5oW1obsjteznQh6s=
-k8s.io/apimachinery v0.0.0-20220722160307-915d89afb4cb h1:CkEjGDsYVgTZod3JtHw5+t2LG2ZoEQpGlvjdQTiiosA=
-k8s.io/apimachinery v0.0.0-20220722160307-915d89afb4cb/go.mod h1:E6C2QnwpsJTXktTwPqd4nAJ/xmsdi1AHqDD0iPB61j0=
+k8s.io/api v0.0.0-20220725160253-f6f0d0e54216 h1:lK3Ih8q6XH8zLGPKkAx0CDs3WYWiQuK3NxL/W7LtqSw=
+k8s.io/api v0.0.0-20220725160253-f6f0d0e54216/go.mod h1:esLTNaRjCQz5pCDYxvulIzMUPDaw9bOuAQ9d6ndNdvs=
+k8s.io/apimachinery v0.0.0-20220726200055-965218438260 h1:Yec9pKZ5AYLiwe5G9piTsqNR7/V57T/9dL/ISMGZRQM=
+k8s.io/apimachinery v0.0.0-20220726200055-965218438260/go.mod h1:E6C2QnwpsJTXktTwPqd4nAJ/xmsdi1AHqDD0iPB61j0=
 k8s.io/klog/v2 v2.0.0/go.mod h1:PBfzABfn139FHAV07az/IF9Wp1bkk3vpT2XSJ76fSDE=
 k8s.io/klog/v2 v2.70.1 h1:7aaoSdahviPmR+XkS7FyxlkkXs6tHISSG03RxleQAVQ=
 k8s.io/klog/v2 v2.70.1/go.mod h1:y1WjHnz7Dj687irZUWR/WLkLc5N1YHtjLdmgWjndZn0=