diff --git a/.github/workflows/basic-ci-amd64.yaml b/.github/workflows/basic-ci-amd64.yaml
index 79c938fb1e..0b0f75b93b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/basic-ci-amd64.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/basic-ci-amd64.yaml
@@ -269,6 +269,50 @@ jobs:
         timeout-minutes: 15
         run: bash tests/functional/vfio/gha-run.sh run
 
+  run-docker-tests:
+    name: run-docker-tests
+    strategy:
+      # We can set this to true whenever we're 100% sure that
+      # all the tests are not flaky, otherwise we'll fail them
+      # all due to a single flaky instance.
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        vmm:
+          - qemu
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    env:
+      KATA_HYPERVISOR: ${{ matrix.vmm }}
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+        with:
+          ref: ${{ inputs.commit-hash }}
+          fetch-depth: 0
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      - name: Rebase atop of the latest target branch
+        run: |
+          ./tests/git-helper.sh "rebase-atop-of-the-latest-target-branch"
+        env:
+          TARGET_BRANCH: ${{ inputs.target-branch }}
+
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: bash tests/integration/docker/gha-run.sh install-dependencies
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
+
+      - name: get-kata-tarball
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@d3f86a106a0bac45b974a628896c90dbdf5c8093 # v4.3.0
+        with:
+          name: kata-static-tarball-amd64${{ inputs.tarball-suffix }}
+          path: kata-artifacts
+
+      - name: Install kata
+        run: bash tests/integration/docker/gha-run.sh install-kata kata-artifacts
+
+      - name: Run docker smoke test
+        timeout-minutes: 5
+        run: bash tests/integration/docker/gha-run.sh run
+
   run-nerdctl-tests:
     name: run-nerdctl-tests
     strategy:
diff --git a/.github/workflows/basic-ci-s390x.yaml b/.github/workflows/basic-ci-s390x.yaml
index 7d36202ee3..ce9f6bb383 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/basic-ci-s390x.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/basic-ci-s390x.yaml
@@ -123,3 +123,44 @@ jobs:
       - name: Run containerd-stability tests
         timeout-minutes: 15
         run: bash tests/stability/gha-run.sh run
+
+  run-docker-tests:
+    name: run-docker-tests
+    strategy:
+      # We can set this to true whenever we're 100% sure that
+      # all the tests are not flaky, otherwise we'll fail them
+      # all due to a single flaky instance.
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        vmm: ['qemu']
+    runs-on: s390x-large
+    env:
+      KATA_HYPERVISOR: ${{ matrix.vmm }}
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+        with:
+          ref: ${{ inputs.commit-hash }}
+          fetch-depth: 0
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      - name: Rebase atop of the latest target branch
+        run: |
+          ./tests/git-helper.sh "rebase-atop-of-the-latest-target-branch"
+        env:
+          TARGET_BRANCH: ${{ inputs.target-branch }}
+
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: bash tests/integration/docker/gha-run.sh install-dependencies
+
+      - name: get-kata-tarball
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@d3f86a106a0bac45b974a628896c90dbdf5c8093 # v4.3.0
+        with:
+          name: kata-static-tarball-s390x${{ inputs.tarball-suffix }}
+          path: kata-artifacts
+
+      - name: Install kata
+        run: bash tests/integration/docker/gha-run.sh install-kata kata-artifacts
+
+      - name: Run docker smoke test
+        timeout-minutes: 5
+        run: bash tests/integration/docker/gha-run.sh run
diff --git a/tests/integration/docker/gha-run.sh b/tests/integration/docker/gha-run.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..6860cd108a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/integration/docker/gha-run.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2023 Intel Corporation
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+#
+
+set -o errexit
+set -o nounset
+set -o pipefail
+
+kata_tarball_dir="${2:-kata-artifacts}"
+docker_dir="$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$0")")"
+source "${docker_dir}/../../common.bash"
+image="${image:-instrumentisto/nmap:latest}"
+
+function install_dependencies() {
+	info "Installing the dependencies needed for running the docker smoke test"
+
+	sudo -E docker pull "${image}"
+}
+
+function run() {
+	info "Running docker smoke test tests using ${KATA_HYPERVISOR} hypervisor"
+
+	enabling_hypervisor
+
+	info "Running docker with runc"
+	sudo docker run --rm --entrypoint nping "${image}" --tcp-connect -c 2 -p 80 www.github.com
+
+	info "Running docker with Kata Containers (${KATA_HYPERVISOR})"
+	sudo docker run --rm --runtime io.containerd.kata-${KATA_HYPERVISOR}.v2 --entrypoint nping "${image}" --tcp-connect -c 2 -p 80 www.github.com
+}
+
+function main() {
+	action="${1:-}"
+	case "${action}" in
+		install-dependencies) install_dependencies ;;
+		install-kata) install_kata ;;
+		run) run ;;
+		*) >&2 die "Invalid argument" ;;
+	esac
+}
+
+main "$@"