diff --git a/kube-core/src/discovery.rs b/kube-core/src/discovery.rs
index 4b87ca329..ce7c89295 100644
--- a/kube-core/src/discovery.rs
+++ b/kube-core/src/discovery.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 //! Type information structs for API discovery
 use crate::{gvk::GroupVersionKind, resource::Resource};
+use k8s_openapi::apimachinery::pkg::apis::meta::v1::APIResource;
 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
 
 /// Information about a Kubernetes API resource
@@ -57,6 +58,20 @@ impl ApiResource {
     }
 }
 
+impl Into<APIResource> for ApiResource {
+    fn into(self) -> APIResource {
+        APIResource {
+            group: Some(self.group),
+            kind: self.kind,
+            version: Option::from(self.api_version),
+            namespaced: true,
+            name: self.plural,
+            verbs: vec!["list".to_string(), "get".to_string()],
+            ..Default::default()
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 /// Resource scope
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)]
 pub enum Scope {
@@ -204,3 +219,29 @@ fn test_to_plural_native() {
         assert_eq!(to_plural(&kind.to_ascii_lowercase()), plural);
     }
 }
+
+#[test]
+fn api_resource_into_k8s_open_api_api_resource() {
+    let api_resource = ApiResource {
+        group: "apps".to_string(),
+        version: "v1".to_string(),
+        api_version: "apps/v1".to_string(),
+        kind: "Deployment".to_string(),
+        plural: "deployments".to_string(),
+    };
+    assert_eq!(
+        k8s_openapi::apimachinery::pkg::apis::meta::v1::APIResource {
+            categories: None,
+            group: Some("apps".to_string()),
+            kind: "Deployment".to_string(),
+            name: "deployments".to_string(),
+            namespaced: true,
+            short_names: None,
+            singular_name: "".to_string(),
+            storage_version_hash: None,
+            verbs: vec!["list".to_string(), "get".to_string()],
+            version: Some("apps/v1".to_string())
+        },
+        api_resource.into()
+    );
+}