diff --git a/commodore/inventory/parameters.py b/commodore/inventory/parameters.py
index 511ed5ea..014d6a7d 100644
--- a/commodore/inventory/parameters.py
+++ b/commodore/inventory/parameters.py
@@ -6,10 +6,7 @@
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Any, Optional
 
-from kapitan.reclass import reclass
-from kapitan.reclass.reclass import settings as reclass_settings
-from kapitan.reclass.reclass import core as reclass_core
-from kapitan.reclass.reclass import errors as reclass_errors
+from reclass_rs import Reclass
 
 from commodore.cluster import Cluster, render_params
 from commodore.component import component_parameters_key
@@ -20,28 +17,6 @@
 FAKE_CLUSTER_ID = "c-bar"
 
 
-class ClassNotFound(reclass_errors.ClassNotFound):
-    """
-    Create a wrapper around kapitan.reclass's ClassNotFound exception.
-
-    This allows us to have clean exception handling outside of this file, because we
-    unfortunately can't catch ClassNotFound directly in our code if we import
-    and use Kapitan reclass's ClassNotFound with any import which doesn't map the class
-    to `reclass.errors.ClassNotFound`. This is the case because Python's implementation
-    doesn't try to figure out if two imports are the same if they have different import
-    paths, cf. https://docs.python.org/3/reference/import.html.
-
-    The only import that should work (in my understanding) would be
-    `from kapitan.reclass import reclass` but with that import we get the error
-    "AttributeError: module 'kapitan.reclass.reclass' has no attribute 'errors'"
-    """
-
-    @classmethod
-    def from_reclass(cls, e: reclass_errors.ClassNotFound):
-        """Wrap a reclass.errors.ClassNotFound instance in our wrapper."""
-        return ClassNotFound(e.storage, e.name, e.path)
-
-
 class InventoryFacts:
     def __init__(
         self,
@@ -176,53 +151,25 @@ def global_dir(self) -> Path:
     def tenant_dir(self) -> Optional[Path]:
         return self._tenant_dir
 
-    def _reclass_config(
-        self, allow_missing_classes: bool, ignore_class_notfound_warning: bool = True
-    ) -> dict:
-        return {
-            "storage_type": "yaml_fs",
-            "inventory_base_uri": str(self.directory.absolute()),
-            "nodes_uri": str(self.targets_dir.absolute()),
-            "classes_uri": str(self.classes_dir.absolute()),
-            "compose_node_name": False,
-            "allow_none_override": True,
-            "ignore_class_notfound": allow_missing_classes,
-            "ignore_class_notfound_warning": ignore_class_notfound_warning,
-        }
-
     def _render_inventory(
         self,
         target: Optional[str] = None,
         allow_missing_classes: bool = True,
         ignore_class_notfound_warning: bool = True,
     ) -> dict[str, Any]:
-        rc = self._reclass_config(
-            allow_missing_classes,
-            ignore_class_notfound_warning=ignore_class_notfound_warning,
-        )
-        storage = reclass.get_storage(
-            rc["storage_type"],
-            rc["nodes_uri"],
-            rc["classes_uri"],
-            rc["compose_node_name"],
-        )
-        class_mappings = rc.get("class_mappings")
-        _reclass = reclass_core.Core(
-            storage, class_mappings, reclass_settings.Settings(rc)
+        r = Reclass(
+            nodes_path=str(self.targets_dir.absolute()),
+            classes_path=str(self.classes_dir.absolute()),
+            ignore_class_notfound=allow_missing_classes,
         )
 
         try:
             if target:
-                return _reclass.nodeinfo(target)
-
-            return _reclass.inventory()
-        except Exception as e:
-            if type(e).__name__ == "ClassNotFound":
-                # Wrap Kapitan reclass's ClassNotFound with ours so we can cleanly
-                # catch it. See docsstring for our ClassNotFound for a more detailed
-                # explanation why this is necessary.
-                raise ClassNotFound.from_reclass(e)
-            raise
+                return r.nodeinfo(target).as_dict()
+
+            return r.inventory().as_dict()
+        except ValueError as e:
+            raise e
 
     def reclass(self, invfacts: InventoryFacts) -> InventoryParameters:
         cluster_response: dict[str, Any] = {
diff --git a/commodore/inventory/render.py b/commodore/inventory/render.py
index 80db2607..c145e013 100644
--- a/commodore/inventory/render.py
+++ b/commodore/inventory/render.py
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@
 from commodore.config import Config
 
 from .parameters import (
-    ClassNotFound,
     InventoryFactory,
     InventoryFacts,
     InventoryParameters,
@@ -67,11 +66,11 @@ def _get_inventory(cfg: Config, invfacts: InventoryFacts) -> InventoryParameters
 
     try:
         inv = invfactory.reclass(invfacts)
-    except ClassNotFound as e:
+    except ValueError as e:
         _cleanup_work_dir(cfg, work_dir)
         raise ValueError(
             "Unable to render inventory with `--no-allow-missing-classes`. "
-            + f"Class '{e.name}' not found. "
+            + f"{e}. "
             + "Verify the provided values or allow missing classes."
         ) from e
 
diff --git a/tests/test_inventory_render.py b/tests/test_inventory_render.py
index 3836d450..dfd60021 100644
--- a/tests/test_inventory_render.py
+++ b/tests/test_inventory_render.py
@@ -57,19 +57,19 @@ def test_extract_components(
             lambda t, g: create_inventory_facts(
                 t, g, None, "x-invalid-dist", None, None, allow_missing_classes=False
             ),
-            "Class 'global.distribution.x-invalid-dist' not found.",
+            "Error while rendering global: Class global.distribution.x-invalid-dist not found.",
         ),
         (
             lambda t, g: create_inventory_facts(
                 t, g, None, "a", "x-invalid-cloud", None, allow_missing_classes=False
             ),
-            "Class 'global.cloud.x-invalid-cloud' not found.",
+            "Error while rendering global: Class global.cloud.x-invalid-cloud not found.",
         ),
         (
             lambda t, g: create_inventory_facts(
                 t, g, None, "a", "y", "x-invalid-region", allow_missing_classes=False
             ),
-            "Class 'global.cloud.y.x-invalid-region' not found.",
+            "Error while rendering global: Class global.cloud.y.x-invalid-region not found.",
         ),
     ],
 )