diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 69df3dd0f..de24702d9 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -35,11 +35,11 @@ stages:
 
 check-lockfile:
   stage: check
-  image: registry.ddbuild.io/images/mirror/ubuntu:22.04
+  image: registry.ddbuild.io/images/mirror/ubuntu:24.04
   tags: ["arch:amd64"]
   script:
     - apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends python3 python3-pip git ca-certificates
-    - python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip uv
+    - python3 -m pip install uv --break-system-packages
     - uv pip compile --python-platform linux tasks/requirements.in -o tasks/requirements.txt.tmp
     - grep -v '^#' tasks/requirements.txt > tasks/requirements.txt.no-comments
     - grep -v '^#' tasks/requirements.txt.tmp > tasks/requirements.txt.tmp.no-comments
diff --git a/examples/demo.yaml b/examples/demo.yaml
index 472fc91fd..5eb29b31a 100644
--- a/examples/demo.yaml
+++ b/examples/demo.yaml
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ spec:
               memory: 32Mi
               cpu: 10m
         - name: read-file
-          image: ubuntu:focal-20240918
+          image: ubuntu:noble
           command: ["/bin/bash"]
           args:
             - -c
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ spec:
               memory: 32Mi
               cpu: 100m
         - name: write-file
-          image: ubuntu:focal-20240918
+          image: ubuntu:noble
           command: ["/bin/bash"]
           args:
             - -c
diff --git a/lima.yaml b/lima.yaml
index b1b00a20f..aae813f14 100644
--- a/lima.yaml
+++ b/lima.yaml
@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@ vmOpts:
       binfmt: true
 
 images:
-  - location: "https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/22.04/release/ubuntu-22.04-server-cloudimg-amd64.img"
+  - location: "https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/24.04/release/ubuntu-24.04-server-cloudimg-amd64.img"
     arch: "x86_64"
-  - location: "https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/22.04/release/ubuntu-22.04-server-cloudimg-arm64.img"
+  - location: "https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/24.04/release/ubuntu-24.04-server-cloudimg-arm64.img"
     arch: "aarch64"
 
 # disable mounts