diff --git a/.chloggen/kind130.yaml b/.chloggen/kind130.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8ded213051
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.chloggen/kind130.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+# One of 'breaking', 'deprecation', 'new_component', 'enhancement', 'bug_fix'
+change_type: 'enhancement'
+
+# The name of the component, or a single word describing the area of concern, (e.g. operator, target allocator, github action)
+component: operator
+
+# A brief description of the change. Surround your text with quotes ("") if it needs to start with a backtick (`).
+note: Support for Kubernetes 1.30 version.
+
+# One or more tracking issues related to the change
+issues: [2881]
+
+# (Optional) One or more lines of additional information to render under the primary note.
+# These lines will be padded with 2 spaces and then inserted directly into the document.
+# Use pipe (|) for multiline entries.
+subtext:
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.github/workflows/e2e.yaml b/.github/workflows/e2e.yaml
index c87c7824b0..358f367439 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/e2e.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/e2e.yaml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ jobs:
        # should be compatible with them.
        kube-version:
          - "1.23"
-         - "1.29"
+         - "1.30"
        group:
          - e2e
          - e2e-automatic-rbac
diff --git a/.github/workflows/scorecard.yaml b/.github/workflows/scorecard.yaml
index ed3cbc493b..c0eb437a9e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/scorecard.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/scorecard.yaml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ jobs:
       matrix:
         kube-version:
           - "1.23"
-          - "1.29"
+          - "1.30"
 
     steps:
 
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index c5a601fe0a..157d172907 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ endif
 
 START_KIND_CLUSTER ?= true
 
-KUBE_VERSION ?= 1.29
+KUBE_VERSION ?= 1.30
 KIND_CONFIG ?= kind-$(KUBE_VERSION).yaml
 KIND_CLUSTER_NAME ?= "otel-operator"
 
diff --git a/kind-1.30.yaml b/kind-1.30.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ad68ebecd3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kind-1.30.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+kind: Cluster
+apiVersion: kind.x-k8s.io/v1alpha4
+nodes:
+  - role: control-plane
+    image: kindest/node:v1.30.0@sha256:047357ac0cfea04663786a612ba1eaba9702bef25227a794b52890dd8bcd692e
+    kubeadmConfigPatches:
+      - |
+        kind: InitConfiguration
+        nodeRegistration:
+          kubeletExtraArgs:
+            node-labels: "ingress-ready=true"
+    extraPortMappings:
+      - containerPort: 80
+        hostPort: 80
+        protocol: TCP
+      - containerPort: 443
+        hostPort: 443
+        protocol: TCP