diff --git a/cmd/config/docs/api-conventions/functions-spec.md b/cmd/config/docs/api-conventions/functions-spec.md
index 2c3468f87..5108e101e 100644
--- a/cmd/config/docs/api-conventions/functions-spec.md
+++ b/cmd/config/docs/api-conventions/functions-spec.md
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ containers that can be chained together as part of a configuration management pi
 The end result of such a pipeline are fully rendered configurations that can then be
 applied to a control plane (e.g. Using ‘kubectl apply’ for Kubernetes control plane).
 As such, although this document references Kubernetes Resource Model and API conventions,
-it is completely decoupled from Kuberentes API machinery and does not depend on any
+it is completely decoupled from Kubernetes API machinery and does not depend on any
 in-cluster components.
 
 This document references terms described in [Kubernetes API Conventions][1].
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ _Configuration functions_ enable shift-left practices (client-side) through:
 Performing these on the client rather than the server enables:
 
 - Configuration to be reviewed prior to being sent to the API server
-- Configuration to be validated as part of the CI?CD pipeline
+- Configuration to be validated as part of the CI/CD pipeline
 - Configuration for Resources to validated holistically rather than individually
   per-Resource
   - e.g. ensure the `Service.selector` and `Deployment.spec.template` labels
diff --git a/kstatus/go.mod b/kstatus/go.mod
index 10aba078a..70aed580d 100644
--- a/kstatus/go.mod
+++ b/kstatus/go.mod
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ module sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kstatus
 go 1.14
 
 require (
-	github.com/ghodss/yaml v1.0.0
 	github.com/gogo/protobuf v1.3.1 // indirect
 	github.com/google/go-cmp v0.3.1 // indirect
 	github.com/pkg/errors v0.8.1
diff --git a/kstatus/go.sum b/kstatus/go.sum
index 844e0a0d9..748b6ca50 100644
--- a/kstatus/go.sum
+++ b/kstatus/go.sum
@@ -52,8 +52,6 @@ github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify v1.4.7 h1:IXs+QLmnXW2CcXuY+8Mzv/fWEsPGWxqefPtCP5CnV
 github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify v1.4.7/go.mod h1:jwhsz4b93w/PPRr/qN1Yymfu8t87LnFCMoQvtojpjFo=
 github.com/ghodss/yaml v0.0.0-20150909031657-73d445a93680 h1:ZktWZesgun21uEDrwW7iEV1zPCGQldM2atlJZ3TdvVM=
 github.com/ghodss/yaml v0.0.0-20150909031657-73d445a93680/go.mod h1:4dBDuWmgqj2HViK6kFavaiC9ZROes6MMH2rRYeMEF04=
-github.com/ghodss/yaml v1.0.0 h1:wQHKEahhL6wmXdzwWG11gIVCkOv05bNOh+Rxn0yngAk=
-github.com/ghodss/yaml v1.0.0/go.mod h1:4dBDuWmgqj2HViK6kFavaiC9ZROes6MMH2rRYeMEF04=
 github.com/globalsign/mgo v0.0.0-20180905125535-1ca0a4f7cbcb/go.mod h1:xkRDCp4j0OGD1HRkm4kmhM+pmpv3AKq5SU7GMg4oO/Q=
 github.com/globalsign/mgo v0.0.0-20181015135952-eeefdecb41b8/go.mod h1:xkRDCp4j0OGD1HRkm4kmhM+pmpv3AKq5SU7GMg4oO/Q=
 github.com/go-logr/logr v0.1.0 h1:M1Tv3VzNlEHg6uyACnRdtrploV2P7wZqH8BoQMtz0cg=
diff --git a/kstatus/status/status_compute_test.go b/kstatus/status/status_compute_test.go
index df53f6f7f..6f9eec2f0 100644
--- a/kstatus/status/status_compute_test.go
+++ b/kstatus/status/status_compute_test.go
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@ package status
 import (
 	"testing"
 
-	"github.com/ghodss/yaml"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
 	corev1 "k8s.io/api/core/v1"
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1/unstructured"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/yaml"
 )
 
 func y2u(t *testing.T, spec string) *unstructured.Unstructured {