diff --git a/.github/workflows/kata-deploy-test.yaml b/.github/workflows/kata-deploy-test.yaml
index 8a21514d1a..228e2246ec 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/kata-deploy-test.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/kata-deploy-test.yaml
@@ -1,7 +1,12 @@
-on: issue_comment
+on:
+  issue_comment:
+    types: [created, edited]
+
 name: test-kata-deploy
+
 jobs:
   check_comments:
+    if: ${{ github.event.issue.pull_request }}
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - name: Check for Command
@@ -9,7 +14,7 @@ jobs:
         uses: kata-containers/slash-command-action@v1
         with:
           repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-          command: "test-kata-deploy"
+          command: "test_kata_deploy"
           reaction: "true"
           reaction-type: "eyes"
           allow-edits: "false"
@@ -17,6 +22,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: verify command arg is kata-deploy
         run: |
            echo "The command was '${{ steps.command.outputs.command-name }}' with arguments '${{ steps.command.outputs.command-arguments }}'"
+
   create-and-test-container:
     needs: check_comments
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
@@ -27,22 +33,26 @@ jobs:
             ref=$(cat $GITHUB_EVENT_PATH | jq -r '.issue.pull_request.url' | sed  's#^.*\/pulls#refs\/pull#' | sed 's#$#\/merge#')
             echo "reference for PR: " ${ref}
             echo "##[set-output name=pr-ref;]${ref}"
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v2-beta
+
+      - name: check out
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
         with:
-          ref: ${{ steps.get-PR-ref.outputs.pr-ref }}
+           ref: ${{ steps.get-PR-ref.outputs.pr-ref }}
+
       - name: build-container-image
         id: build-container-image
         run: |
             PR_SHA=$(git log --format=format:%H -n1)
-            VERSION=$(curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/main/VERSION)
+            VERSION="2.0.0"
             ARTIFACT_URL="https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/releases/download/${VERSION}/kata-static-${VERSION}-x86_64.tar.xz"
-            wget "${ARTIFACT_URL}" -O ./kata-deploy/kata-static.tar.xz
-            docker build --build-arg KATA_ARTIFACTS=kata-static.tar.xz -t katadocker/kata-deploy-ci:${PR_SHA} ./kata-deploy
+            wget "${ARTIFACT_URL}" -O tools/packaging/kata-deploy/kata-static.tar.xz
+            docker build --build-arg KATA_ARTIFACTS=kata-static.tar.xz -t katadocker/kata-deploy-ci:${PR_SHA} ./tools/packaging/kata-deploy
             docker login -u ${{ secrets.DOCKER_USERNAME }} -p ${{ secrets.DOCKER_PASSWORD }}
             docker push katadocker/kata-deploy-ci:$PR_SHA
             echo "##[set-output name=pr-sha;]${PR_SHA}"
+
       - name: test-kata-deploy-ci-in-aks
-        uses: ./kata-deploy/action
+        uses: ./tools/packaging/kata-deploy/action
         with:
           packaging-sha: ${{ steps.build-container-image.outputs.pr-sha }}
         env: