diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yaml b/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
index cd6f15259b..ed7a1eecfb 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
@@ -288,8 +288,11 @@ jobs:
     needs: build-kata-static-tarball-amd64
     uses: ./.github/workflows/run-metrics.yaml
     with:
-      tarball-suffix: -${{ inputs.tag }}
+      registry: ghcr.io
+      repo: ${{ github.repository_owner }}/kata-deploy-ci
+      tag: ${{ inputs.tag }}-amd64
       commit-hash: ${{ inputs.commit-hash }}
+      pr-number: ${{ inputs.pr-number }}
       target-branch: ${{ inputs.target-branch }}
 
   run-basic-amd64-tests:
diff --git a/.github/workflows/run-metrics.yaml b/.github/workflows/run-metrics.yaml
index be39105e78..d5dbb32b0a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/run-metrics.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/run-metrics.yaml
@@ -2,8 +2,17 @@ name: CI | Run test metrics
 on:
   workflow_call:
     inputs:
-      tarball-suffix:
-        required: false
+      registry:
+        required: true
+        type: string
+      repo:
+        required: true
+        type: string
+      tag:
+        required: true
+        type: string
+      pr-number:
+        required: true
         type: string
       commit-hash:
         required: false
@@ -14,34 +23,7 @@ on:
         default: ""
 
 jobs:
-  setup-kata:
-    name: Kata Setup
-    runs-on: metrics
-    env:
-      GOPATH: ${{ github.workspace }}
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          ref: ${{ inputs.commit-hash }}
-          fetch-depth: 0
-
-      - name: Rebase atop of the latest target branch
-        run: |
-          ./tests/git-helper.sh "rebase-atop-of-the-latest-target-branch"
-        env:
-          TARGET_BRANCH: ${{ inputs.target-branch }}
-
-      - name: get-kata-tarball
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          name: kata-static-tarball-amd64${{ inputs.tarball-suffix }}
-          path: kata-artifacts
-
-      - name: Install kata
-        run: bash tests/metrics/gha-run.sh install-kata kata-artifacts
-
   run-metrics:
-    needs: setup-kata
     strategy:
       # We can set this to true whenever we're 100% sure that
       # the all the tests are not flaky, otherwise we'll fail
@@ -54,7 +36,32 @@ jobs:
     env:
       GOPATH: ${{ github.workspace }}
       KATA_HYPERVISOR: ${{ matrix.vmm }}
+      DOCKER_REGISTRY: ${{ inputs.registry }}
+      DOCKER_REPO: ${{ inputs.repo }}
+      DOCKER_TAG: ${{ inputs.tag }}
+      GH_PR_NUMBER: ${{ inputs.pr-number }}
+      K8S_TEST_HOST_TYPE: "baremetal"
+      USING_NFD: "false"
+      KUBERNETES: kubeadm
     steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          ref: ${{ inputs.commit-hash }}
+          fetch-depth: 0
+
+      - 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: Deploy Kata
+        timeout-minutes: 10
+        run: bash tests/integration/kubernetes/gha-run.sh deploy-kata-kubeadm
+
+      - name: Install check metrics
+        run: bash tests/metrics/gha-run.sh install-checkmetrics
+
       - name: enabling the hypervisor
         run: bash tests/metrics/gha-run.sh enabling-hypervisor
 
@@ -92,3 +99,7 @@ jobs:
           path: results-${{ matrix.vmm }}.tar.gz
           retention-days: 1
           if-no-files-found: error
+
+      - name: Delete kata-deploy
+        if: always()
+        run: bash tests/integration/kubernetes/gha-run.sh cleanup-kubeadm
diff --git a/tests/integration/kubernetes/gha-run.sh b/tests/integration/kubernetes/gha-run.sh
index f5a8084408..9b7e7e45b6 100755
--- a/tests/integration/kubernetes/gha-run.sh
+++ b/tests/integration/kubernetes/gha-run.sh
@@ -433,8 +433,8 @@ function cleanup() {
 		return
 	fi
 
-	# In case of canceling workflow manually, 'run_kubernetes_tests.sh' continues running and triggers new tests, 
-	# resulting in the CI being in an unexpected state. So we need kill all running test scripts before cleaning up the node. 
+	# In case of canceling workflow manually, 'run_kubernetes_tests.sh' continues running and triggers new tests,
+	# resulting in the CI being in an unexpected state. So we need kill all running test scripts before cleaning up the node.
 	# See issue https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/issues/9980
 	delete_test_runners	|| true
 	# Switch back to the default namespace and delete the tests one
@@ -594,6 +594,7 @@ function main() {
 		collect-artifacts) collect_artifacts ;;
 		cleanup) cleanup ;;
 		cleanup-kcli) cleanup "kcli" ;;
+		cleanup-kubeadm) cleanup "kubeadm" ;;
 		cleanup-sev) cleanup "sev" ;;
 		cleanup-snp) cleanup "snp" ;;
 		cleanup-tdx) cleanup "tdx" ;;
diff --git a/tests/metrics/gha-run.sh b/tests/metrics/gha-run.sh
index 4edf79f028..7fb55df89e 100755
--- a/tests/metrics/gha-run.sh
+++ b/tests/metrics/gha-run.sh
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ function run_test_latency() {
 function main() {
 	action="${1:-}"
 	case "${action}" in
-		install-kata) install_kata && install_checkmetrics ;;
+		install-checkmetrics) install_checkmetrics ;;
 		enabling-hypervisor) enabling_hypervisor ;;
 		make-tarball-results) make_tarball_results ;;
 		run-test-launchtimes) run_test_launchtimes ;;
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ function main() {
 		run-test-fio) run_test_fio ;;
 		run-test-iperf) run_test_iperf ;;
 		run-test-latency) run_test_latency ;;
-		*) >&2 die "Invalid argument" ;;
+		*) >&2 die "Invalid argument: ${action}" ;;
 	esac
 }