diff --git a/cmd/kubeadm/app/apis/kubeadm/types.go b/cmd/kubeadm/app/apis/kubeadm/types.go
index 1759b765513..55dc999e12d 100644
--- a/cmd/kubeadm/app/apis/kubeadm/types.go
+++ b/cmd/kubeadm/app/apis/kubeadm/types.go
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ type ClusterConfiguration struct {
 
 	// ImageRepository sets the container registry to pull images from.
 	// If empty, `k8s.gcr.io` will be used by default; in case of kubernetes version is a CI build (kubernetes version starts with `ci/` or `ci-cross/`)
-	// `gcr.io/kubernetes-ci-images` will be used as a default for control plane components and for kube-proxy, while `k8s.gcr.io`
+	// `gcr.io/k8s-staging-ci-images` will be used as a default for control plane components and for kube-proxy, while `k8s.gcr.io`
 	// will be used for all the other images.
 	ImageRepository string
 
diff --git a/cmd/kubeadm/app/apis/kubeadm/v1beta1/types.go b/cmd/kubeadm/app/apis/kubeadm/v1beta1/types.go
index 61097572c4c..90d7a2838f7 100644
--- a/cmd/kubeadm/app/apis/kubeadm/v1beta1/types.go
+++ b/cmd/kubeadm/app/apis/kubeadm/v1beta1/types.go
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ type ClusterConfiguration struct {
 
 	// ImageRepository sets the container registry to pull images from.
 	// If empty, `k8s.gcr.io` will be used by default; in case of kubernetes version is a CI build (kubernetes version starts with `ci/` or `ci-cross/`)
-	// `gcr.io/kubernetes-ci-images` will be used as a default for control plane components and for kube-proxy, while `k8s.gcr.io`
+	// `gcr.io/k8s-staging-ci-images` will be used as a default for control plane components and for kube-proxy, while `k8s.gcr.io`
 	// will be used for all the other images.
 	ImageRepository string `json:"imageRepository"`
 
diff --git a/cmd/kubeadm/app/apis/kubeadm/v1beta2/types.go b/cmd/kubeadm/app/apis/kubeadm/v1beta2/types.go
index a9261d06731..217db2f1b0c 100644
--- a/cmd/kubeadm/app/apis/kubeadm/v1beta2/types.go
+++ b/cmd/kubeadm/app/apis/kubeadm/v1beta2/types.go
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ type ClusterConfiguration struct {
 
 	// ImageRepository sets the container registry to pull images from.
 	// If empty, `k8s.gcr.io` will be used by default; in case of kubernetes version is a CI build (kubernetes version starts with `ci/` or `ci-cross/`)
-	// `gcr.io/kubernetes-ci-images` will be used as a default for control plane components and for kube-proxy, while `k8s.gcr.io`
+	// `gcr.io/k8s-staging-ci-images` will be used as a default for control plane components and for kube-proxy, while `k8s.gcr.io`
 	// will be used for all the other images.
 	ImageRepository string `json:"imageRepository,omitempty"`
 
diff --git a/cmd/kubeadm/app/constants/constants.go b/cmd/kubeadm/app/constants/constants.go
index 2eb4541fc9f..05e6b70fccc 100644
--- a/cmd/kubeadm/app/constants/constants.go
+++ b/cmd/kubeadm/app/constants/constants.go
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ const (
 	NodeBootstrapTokenAuthGroup = "system:bootstrappers:kubeadm:default-node-token"
 
 	// DefaultCIImageRepository points to image registry where CI uploads images from ci-cross build job
-	DefaultCIImageRepository = "gcr.io/kubernetes-ci-images"
+	DefaultCIImageRepository = "gcr.io/k8s-staging-ci-images"
 
 	// CoreDNSConfigMap specifies in what ConfigMap in the kube-system namespace the CoreDNS config should be stored
 	CoreDNSConfigMap = "coredns"