diff --git a/.kitchen.yml b/.kitchen.yml
index 8cc3602..b1f1c5f 100644
--- a/.kitchen.yml
+++ b/.kitchen.yml
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ platforms:
   - name: ubuntu-12.04
     run_list:
     - recipe[apt]
-  - name: centos-6
+  - name: centos-6.6
     run_list:
     - recipe[yum]
 
diff --git a/Berksfile b/Berksfile
index da47cd8..817376d 100644
--- a/Berksfile
+++ b/Berksfile
@@ -4,9 +4,6 @@ metadata
 
 cookbook 'java'
 
-# until https://github.com/elastic/cookbook-elasticsearch/pull/230
-cookbook 'elasticsearch', '~> 0.3', git:'git@github.com:racker/cookbook-elasticsearch.git'
-
 group :integration do
   cookbook 'wrapper', path: 'test/fixtures/cookbooks/wrapper'
   cookbook 'apt'
diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index 8b0abcd..2b33b54 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ group :kitchen_common do
 end
 
 group :kitchen_vagrant do
-  gem 'kitchen-vagrant'
+  gem 'kitchen-vagrant', '< 0.17.0'
   gem 'vagrant-wrapper'
 end
 
diff --git a/metadata.rb b/metadata.rb
index 84864f8..5551bc1 100644
--- a/metadata.rb
+++ b/metadata.rb
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@
 depends 'apt'
 depends 'build-essential'
 depends 'chef-sugar'
-depends 'cron', '~> 1.4.3'
-depends 'elasticsearch', '~> 0.3'
+depends 'cron'
+depends 'elasticsearch', '~> 0.3.14' # 1.0 release is a radical change, needs work
 depends 'firewall'
 depends 'htpasswd'
 depends 'kibana_lwrp'