diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index be31e340fdda8c01961700250db9a96932af8683..e0ded79ceabb9d3498ae52013f64f6f93aa7c6f2 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -517,13 +517,13 @@ Standard Kubernetes manifests are all written using [ksonnet-lib](https://github
 
 [embedmd]:# (examples/ksonnet-example.jsonnet)
 ```jsonnet
-local k = import 'ksonnet/ksonnet.beta.3/k.libsonnet';
-local daemonset = k.apps.v1beta2.daemonSet;
-
 ((import 'kube-prometheus/kube-prometheus.libsonnet') + {
    nodeExporter+: {
-     daemonset+:
-       daemonset.mixin.metadata.withNamespace('my-custom-namespace'),
+     daemonset+: {
+       metadata+: {
+         namespace: 'my-custom-namespace',
+       },
+     },
    },
  }).nodeExporter.daemonset
 ```
diff --git a/examples/ksonnet-example.jsonnet b/examples/ksonnet-example.jsonnet
index 565d113fd1445359c180e0049e5ffbc155f11c14..eadd2cb79c7309558abece9a1a05747cf7359366 100644
--- a/examples/ksonnet-example.jsonnet
+++ b/examples/ksonnet-example.jsonnet
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-local k = import 'ksonnet/ksonnet.beta.3/k.libsonnet';
-local daemonset = k.apps.v1beta2.daemonSet;
-
 ((import 'kube-prometheus/kube-prometheus.libsonnet') + {
    nodeExporter+: {
-     daemonset+:
-       daemonset.mixin.metadata.withNamespace('my-custom-namespace'),
+     daemonset+: {
+       metadata+: {
+         namespace: 'my-custom-namespace',
+       },
+     },
    },
  }).nodeExporter.daemonset