diff --git a/ansible/roles/metacluster/tasks/components.yml b/ansible/roles/metacluster/tasks/components.yml
index bd026f6..e57d7bc 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/metacluster/tasks/components.yml
+++ b/ansible/roles/metacluster/tasks/components.yml
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
     state: directory
   loop:
     - /opt/metacluster/helm-charts
+    - /opt/metacluster/manifests
     - /opt/metacluster/container-images
 
 - name: Add helm repositories
@@ -45,6 +46,29 @@
   loop_control:
     label: "{{ item.key }}"
 
+- block:
+
+    - name: Retrieve Cluster-API manifests
+      ansible.builtin.command:
+        cmd: clusterctl config repositories | awk '/CoreProvider|kubeadm|vsphere/ {print $(NF-1)"download/"$NF}'
+      register: clusterapi_manifests
+
+    - name: Download manifests
+      ansible.builtin.get_url:
+        url: "{{ item }}"
+        dest: "/opt/metacluster/manifests/{{ item | basename }}"
+      loop: "{{ clusterapi_manifests.stdout_lines }}"
+
+    - name: Parse manifests
+      ansible.builtin.shell:
+        cmd: cat {{ item }} | yq --no-doc eval '.. | .image? | select(.)' | awk '!/ /' | sort
+      register: parsedmanifests
+      loop: "{{ query('ansible.builtin.fileglob', '/opt/metacluster/manifests/*.yaml') | sort }}"
+
+    - name: Store container images
+      ansible.builtin.set_fact:
+        clusterapi_containerimages: parsedmanifests.results | json_query('results[*].stdout')
+
 - name: Pull and store containerimages
   ansible.builtin.shell:
     cmd: >-
@@ -54,7 +78,7 @@
         docker://{{ item }} \
         docker-archive:./{{ ( item | regex_findall('[^/:]+'))[-2] }}.tar:{{ item }}
     chdir: /opt/metacluster/container-images
-  loop: "{{ ((containerimages.results | map(attribute='stdout_lines') | flatten) + dependencies.container_images) | unique }}"
+  loop: "{{ ((containerimages.results | map(attribute='stdout_lines') | flatten) + dependencies.container_images + clusterapi_containerimages) | unique }}"
 
 # - name: Inject manifests
 #   ansible.builtin.template:
diff --git a/ansible/vars/metacluster.yml b/ansible/vars/metacluster.yml
index 348d329..d30300e 100644
--- a/ansible/vars/metacluster.yml
+++ b/ansible/vars/metacluster.yml
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ dependencies:
 
   static_binaries:
     - filename: clusterctl
-      url: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/releases/download/v1.2.2/clusterctl-linux-amd64
+      url: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/releases/download/v1.2.3/clusterctl-linux-amd64
     - filename: govc
       url: https://github.com/vmware/govmomi/releases/download/v0.29.0/govc_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz
       archive: compressed