diff --git a/.github/workflows/lint.yml b/.github/workflows/lint.yml
index 9cf51c17..a098b7ee 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/lint.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/lint.yml
@@ -15,6 +15,6 @@ jobs:
         with:
           go-version-file: 'go.mod'
       - name: golangci-lint
-        uses: golangci/golangci-lint-action@v6
+        uses: golangci/golangci-lint-action@v7
         with:
-          version: v1.64
+          version: v2.0
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yml b/.github/workflows/test.yml
index bcb1adb8..af684e57 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yml
@@ -16,4 +16,4 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/setup-go@v5
         with:
           go-version-file: 'go.mod'
-      - run: make test
+      - run: make test-only
diff --git a/.golangci.yaml b/.golangci.yaml
index 403e9c09..fcd11a7b 100644
--- a/.golangci.yaml
+++ b/.golangci.yaml
@@ -1,26 +1,40 @@
-run:
-  timeout: 10m
-
+version: "2"
 linters:
   enable:
-    - revive
-    - ineffassign
-    - misspell
-    - goimports
     - importas
-
+    - misspell
+    - revive
+  settings:
+    misspell:
+      ignore-rules:
+        - strat
+    revive:
+      severity: error
+      rules:
+        - name: exported
+          arguments:
+            - disableStutteringCheck
+        - name: if-return
+          disabled: true
+  exclusions:
+    generated: lax
+    presets:
+      - comments
+      - common-false-positives
+      - legacy
+      - std-error-handling
+    paths:
+      - third_party$
+      - builtin$
+      - examples$
 severity:
-  default-severity: error
-
-linters-settings:
-  misspell:
-    ignore-words:
-    - strat
-  revive:
-    severity: error
-    rules:
-    - name: exported
-      arguments:
-      - disableStutteringCheck
-    - name: if-return
-      disabled: true
+  default: error
+formatters:
+  enable:
+    - goimports
+  exclusions:
+    generated: lax
+    paths:
+      - third_party$
+      - builtin$
+      - examples$
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index c6ba0081..7128c3fc 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ CONTROLLER_TOOLS_VERSION ?= v0.16.0
 GEN_CRD_API_REFERENCE_DOCS_VERSION ?= v0.3.0
 ADDLICENSE_VERSION ?= v1.1.1
 GOIMPORTS_VERSION ?= v0.25.0
-GOLANGCI_LINT_VERSION ?= v1.64
+GOLANGCI_LINT_VERSION ?= v2.0
 OPENAPI_EXTRACTOR_VERSION ?= v0.1.9
 
 KUSTOMIZE_INSTALL_SCRIPT ?= "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/master/hack/install_kustomize.sh"
@@ -418,4 +418,4 @@ $(GOIMPORTS): $(LOCALBIN)
 .PHONY: golangci-lint
 golangci-lint: $(GOLANGCI_LINT) ## Download golangci-lint locally if necessary.
 $(GOLANGCI_LINT): $(LOCALBIN)
-	test -s $(LOCALBIN)/golangci-lint || GOBIN=$(LOCALBIN) go install github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/cmd/golangci-lint@$(GOLANGCI_LINT_VERSION)
+	test -s $(LOCALBIN)/golangci-lint || GOBIN=$(LOCALBIN) go install github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/v2/cmd/golangci-lint@$(GOLANGCI_LINT_VERSION)
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/apimachinery/api/net/net.go b/apimachinery/api/net/net.go
index 96e0691c..fbeac1f6 100644
--- a/apimachinery/api/net/net.go
+++ b/apimachinery/api/net/net.go
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ func (i IP) ToUnstructured() interface{} {
 	if i.IsZero() {
 		return nil
 	}
-	return i.Addr.String()
+	return i.String()
 }
 
 func (i *IP) IsValid() bool {
@@ -84,9 +84,9 @@ func (i IP) Family() v1.IPFamily {
 	}
 }
 
-func (_ IP) OpenAPISchemaType() []string { return []string{"string"} }
+func (i IP) OpenAPISchemaType() []string { return []string{"string"} }
 
-func (_ IP) OpenAPISchemaFormat() string { return "ip" }
+func (i IP) OpenAPISchemaFormat() string { return "ip" }
 
 func NewIP(ip netip.Addr) IP {
 	return IP{ip}
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ func (i IPPrefix) GomegaString() string {
 }
 
 func (i IPPrefix) IP() IP {
-	return IP{i.Prefix.Addr()}
+	return IP{i.Addr()}
 }
 
 func (i *IPPrefix) UnmarshalJSON(b []byte) error {
@@ -193,9 +193,9 @@ func (in *IPPrefix) IsZero() bool {
 	return in == nil || !in.Prefix.IsValid()
 }
 
-func (_ IPPrefix) OpenAPISchemaType() []string { return []string{"string"} }
+func (in IPPrefix) OpenAPISchemaType() []string { return []string{"string"} }
 
-func (_ IPPrefix) OpenAPISchemaFormat() string { return "ip-prefix" }
+func (in IPPrefix) OpenAPISchemaFormat() string { return "ip-prefix" }
 
 func NewIPPrefix(prefix netip.Prefix) *IPPrefix {
 	return &IPPrefix{Prefix: prefix}
diff --git a/apinetlet/controllers/networkpolicy_controller.go b/apinetlet/controllers/networkpolicy_controller.go
index 3b15c85e..80edd44b 100644
--- a/apinetlet/controllers/networkpolicy_controller.go
+++ b/apinetlet/controllers/networkpolicy_controller.go
@@ -329,11 +329,11 @@ func (r *NetworkPolicyReconciler) fetchIPsFromNetworkInterfaces(ctx context.Cont
 
 		for _, ip := range nic.Spec.IPs {
 			ipFamily := corev1.IPv4Protocol
-			if ip.Addr.Is6() {
+			if ip.Is6() {
 				ipFamily = corev1.IPv6Protocol
 			}
 			ips = append(ips, apinetv1alpha1.ObjectIP{
-				Prefix:   net.IPPrefix{Prefix: netip.PrefixFrom(ip.Addr, ip.Addr.BitLen())},
+				Prefix:   net.IPPrefix{Prefix: netip.PrefixFrom(ip.Addr, ip.BitLen())},
 				IPFamily: ipFamily,
 			})
 		}
@@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ func (r *NetworkPolicyReconciler) fetchIPsFromLoadBalancers(ctx context.Context,
 		for _, ip := range lb.Spec.IPs {
 			// TODO: handle LoadBalancerIP when only IPFamily is specified to allocate a random IP.
 			ips = append(ips, apinetv1alpha1.ObjectIP{
-				Prefix:   net.IPPrefix{Prefix: netip.PrefixFrom(ip.IP.Addr, ip.IP.Addr.BitLen())},
+				Prefix:   net.IPPrefix{Prefix: netip.PrefixFrom(ip.IP.Addr, ip.IP.BitLen())},
 				IPFamily: ip.IPFamily,
 			})
 		}
diff --git a/internal/app/apiserver/apiserver.go b/internal/app/apiserver/apiserver.go
index 4d7b25db..99628a64 100644
--- a/internal/app/apiserver/apiserver.go
+++ b/internal/app/apiserver/apiserver.go
@@ -158,8 +158,8 @@ func (o *IronCoreNetServerOptions) Run(ctx context.Context) error {
 	}
 
 	server.GenericAPIServer.AddPostStartHookOrDie("start-ironcore-net-server-informers", func(hookContext genericapiserver.PostStartHookContext) error {
-		config.GenericConfig.SharedInformerFactory.Start(hookContext.Context.Done())
-		o.SharedInformerFactory.Start(hookContext.Context.Done())
+		config.GenericConfig.SharedInformerFactory.Start(hookContext.Done())
+		o.SharedInformerFactory.Start(hookContext.Done())
 		return nil
 	})
 
diff --git a/internal/controllers/certificateapproval_controller.go b/internal/controllers/certificateapproval_controller.go
index b5e1890b..207dff36 100644
--- a/internal/controllers/certificateapproval_controller.go
+++ b/internal/controllers/certificateapproval_controller.go
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ func (r *CertificateApprovalReconciler) authorize(ctx context.Context, csr *cert
 			ResourceAttributes: &attrs,
 		},
 	}
-	if err := r.Client.Create(ctx, sar); err != nil {
+	if err := r.Create(ctx, sar); err != nil {
 		return false, fmt.Errorf("error creating subject access review: %w", err)
 	}
 	return sar.Status.Allowed, nil
diff --git a/internal/controllers/scheduler_controller.go b/internal/controllers/scheduler_controller.go
index 4ae09da2..cc14d9a5 100644
--- a/internal/controllers/scheduler_controller.go
+++ b/internal/controllers/scheduler_controller.go
@@ -468,7 +468,7 @@ func (r *SchedulerReconciler) reconcileExists(
 		return ctrl.Result{}, fmt.Errorf("error getting nodes for instance: %w", err)
 	}
 	if len(nodes) == 0 {
-		r.EventRecorder.Event(inst, corev1.EventTypeNormal, outOfCapacity, "No nodes available to schedule instance on")
+		r.Event(inst, corev1.EventTypeNormal, outOfCapacity, "No nodes available to schedule instance on")
 		return ctrl.Result{}, nil
 	}
 
diff --git a/internal/controllers/util.go b/internal/controllers/util.go
index edd8df31..dab54840 100644
--- a/internal/controllers/util.go
+++ b/internal/controllers/util.go
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ func ReplaceDaemonSetInstanceNodeNameNodeAffinity(affinity *v1alpha1.Affinity, n
 // avoid bad words.
 func ComputeHash(template *v1alpha1.InstanceTemplate, collisionCount *int32) string {
 	podTemplateSpecHasher := fnv.New32a()
-	_, _ = podTemplateSpecHasher.Write([]byte(fmt.Sprintf("%#+v", *template)))
+	_, _ = fmt.Fprintf(podTemplateSpecHasher, "%#+v", *template)
 
 	// Add collisionCount in the hash if it exists.
 	if collisionCount != nil {