diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 6922cc7..581e16c 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ files = [
     {file = "Babel-2.14.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:6919867db036398ba21eb5c7a0f6b28ab8cbc3ae7a73a44ebe34ae74a4e7d363"},
 ]
 
+[package.dependencies]
+pytz = {version = ">=2015.7", markers = "python_version < \"3.9\""}
+
 [package.extras]
 dev = ["freezegun (>=1.0,<2.0)", "pytest (>=6.0)", "pytest-cov"]
 
@@ -177,6 +180,25 @@ files = [
     {file = "idna-3.6.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:9ecdbbd083b06798ae1e86adcbfe8ab1479cf864e4ee30fe4e46a003d12491ca"},
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "importlib-metadata"
+version = "7.0.1"
+description = "Read metadata from Python packages"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.8"
+files = [
+    {file = "importlib_metadata-7.0.1-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:4805911c3a4ec7c3966410053e9ec6a1fecd629117df5adee56dfc9432a1081e"},
+    {file = "importlib_metadata-7.0.1.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:f238736bb06590ae52ac1fab06a3a9ef1d8dce2b7a35b5ab329371d6c8f5d2cc"},
+]
+
+[package.dependencies]
+zipp = ">=0.5"
+
+[package.extras]
+docs = ["furo", "jaraco.packaging (>=9.3)", "jaraco.tidelift (>=1.4)", "rst.linker (>=1.9)", "sphinx (<7.2.5)", "sphinx (>=3.5)", "sphinx-lint"]
+perf = ["ipython"]
+testing = ["flufl.flake8", "importlib-resources (>=1.3)", "packaging", "pyfakefs", "pytest (>=6)", "pytest-black (>=0.3.7)", "pytest-checkdocs (>=2.4)", "pytest-cov", "pytest-enabler (>=2.2)", "pytest-mypy (>=0.9.1)", "pytest-perf (>=0.9.2)", "pytest-ruff"]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "jinja2"
 version = "3.1.3"
@@ -205,6 +227,9 @@ files = [
     {file = "Markdown-3.5.2.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:e1ac7b3dc550ee80e602e71c1d168002f062e49f1b11e26a36264dafd4df2ef8"},
 ]
 
+[package.dependencies]
+importlib-metadata = {version = ">=4.4", markers = "python_version < \"3.10\""}
+
 [package.extras]
 docs = ["mdx-gh-links (>=0.2)", "mkdocs (>=1.5)", "mkdocs-gen-files", "mkdocs-literate-nav", "mkdocs-nature (>=0.6)", "mkdocs-section-index", "mkdocstrings[python]"]
 testing = ["coverage", "pyyaml"]
@@ -318,6 +343,7 @@ files = [
 click = ">=7.0"
 colorama = {version = ">=0.4", markers = "platform_system == \"Windows\""}
 ghp-import = ">=1.0"
+importlib-metadata = {version = ">=4.3", markers = "python_version < \"3.10\""}
 jinja2 = ">=2.11.1"
 markdown = ">=3.2.1"
 markupsafe = ">=2.0.1"
@@ -482,6 +508,17 @@ files = [
 [package.dependencies]
 six = ">=1.5"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "pytz"
+version = "2024.1"
+description = "World timezone definitions, modern and historical"
+optional = false
+python-versions = "*"
+files = [
+    {file = "pytz-2024.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:328171f4e3623139da4983451950b28e95ac706e13f3f2630a879749e7a8b319"},
+    {file = "pytz-2024.1.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:2a29735ea9c18baf14b448846bde5a48030ed267578472d8955cd0e7443a9812"},
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "pyyaml"
 version = "6.0.1"
@@ -746,7 +783,22 @@ files = [
 [package.extras]
 watchmedo = ["PyYAML (>=3.10)"]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "zipp"
+version = "3.17.0"
+description = "Backport of pathlib-compatible object wrapper for zip files"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.8"
+files = [
+    {file = "zipp-3.17.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:0e923e726174922dce09c53c59ad483ff7bbb8e572e00c7f7c46b88556409f31"},
+    {file = "zipp-3.17.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:84e64a1c28cf7e91ed2078bb8cc8c259cb19b76942096c8d7b84947690cabaf0"},
+]
+
+[package.extras]
+docs = ["furo", "jaraco.packaging (>=9.3)", "jaraco.tidelift (>=1.4)", "rst.linker (>=1.9)", "sphinx (<7.2.5)", "sphinx (>=3.5)", "sphinx-lint"]
+testing = ["big-O", "jaraco.functools", "jaraco.itertools", "more-itertools", "pytest (>=6)", "pytest-black (>=0.3.7)", "pytest-checkdocs (>=2.4)", "pytest-cov", "pytest-enabler (>=2.2)", "pytest-ignore-flaky", "pytest-mypy (>=0.9.1)", "pytest-ruff"]
+
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
-python-versions = "^3.12"
-content-hash = "c5d86c6244ce8c5674a1b3b47069fa071e19ddb9f845d2de17df92c9cf58764b"
+python-versions = "^3.8"
+content-hash = "73c3334a8764cdf63127fa2b5ba859ea230c2fd7df8739b79873bfff55a1e546"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index fcef94e..c7d48fd 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ authors = [ "Tinkerbell Contributors"]
 license = "Apache-2.0"
 
 [tool.poetry.dependencies]
-python = "^3.12"
+python = "^3.8"
 markdown = ">=3.3"
 mkdocs = ">=1.4"
 mkdocs-material = ">=8.5"
diff --git a/runtime.txt b/runtime.txt
index fdcfcfd..98fccd6 100644
--- a/runtime.txt
+++ b/runtime.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-3.12
\ No newline at end of file
+3.8
\ No newline at end of file