diff --git a/tests/gha-run-k8s-common.sh b/tests/gha-run-k8s-common.sh
index 5b8193c88f..7f381c54a7 100644
--- a/tests/gha-run-k8s-common.sh
+++ b/tests/gha-run-k8s-common.sh
@@ -111,3 +111,42 @@ function get_nodes_and_pods_info() {
     kubectl debug $(kubectl get nodes -o name) -it --image=quay.io/kata-containers/kata-debug:latest || true
     kubectl get pods -o name | grep node-debugger | xargs kubectl delete || true
 }
+
+function deploy_k3s() {
+	curl -sfL https://get.k3s.io | sh -s - --write-kubeconfig-mode 644
+
+	# This is an arbitrary value that came up from local tests
+	sleep 120s
+
+	# Download the kubectl binary into /usr/bin and remove /usr/local/bin/kubectl
+	#
+	# We need to do this to avoid hitting issues like:
+	# ```sh
+	# error: open /etc/rancher/k3s/k3s.yaml.lock: permission denied
+	# ```
+	# Which happens basically because k3s links `/usr/local/bin/kubectl`
+	# to `/usr/local/bin/k3s`, and that does extra stuff that vanilla
+	# `kubectl` doesn't do.
+	ARCH=$(uname -m)
+	if [ "${ARCH}" = "x86_64" ]; then
+		ARCH=amd64
+	fi
+	kubectl_version=$(/usr/local/bin/k3s kubectl version --short 2>/dev/null | grep "Client Version" | sed -e 's/Client Version: //' -e 's/\+k3s1//')
+	sudo curl -fL --progress-bar -o /usr/bin/kubectl https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/${kubectl_version}/bin/linux/${ARCH}/kubectl
+	sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/kubectl
+	sudo rm -rf /usr/local/bin/kubectl
+
+	mkdir -p ~/.kube
+	cp /etc/rancher/k3s/k3s.yaml ~/.kube/config
+}
+
+function deploy_k8s() {
+	echo "::group::Deploying ${KUBERNETES}"
+
+	case ${KUBERNETES} in
+		k3s) deploy_k3s ;;
+		*) >&2 echo "${KUBERNETES} flavour is not supported"; exit 2 ;;
+	esac
+
+	echo "::endgroup::"
+}
diff --git a/tests/integration/kubernetes/gha-run.sh b/tests/integration/kubernetes/gha-run.sh
index 1cb11c4569..fa754ada87 100755
--- a/tests/integration/kubernetes/gha-run.sh
+++ b/tests/integration/kubernetes/gha-run.sh
@@ -137,45 +137,6 @@ function deploy_kata() {
     echo "::endgroup::"
 }
 
-function deploy_k3s() {
-	curl -sfL https://get.k3s.io | sh -s - --write-kubeconfig-mode 644
-
-	# This is an arbitrary value that came up from local tests
-	sleep 120s
-
-	# Download the kubectl binary into /usr/bin and remove /usr/local/bin/kubectl
-	#
-	# We need to do this to avoid hitting issues like:
-	# ```sh
-	# error: open /etc/rancher/k3s/k3s.yaml.lock: permission denied
-	# ```
-	# Which happens basically because k3s links `/usr/local/bin/kubectl`
-	# to `/usr/local/bin/k3s`, and that does extra stuff that vanilla
-	# `kubectl` doesn't do.
-	ARCH=$(uname -m)
-	if [ "${ARCH}" = "x86_64" ]; then
-		ARCH=amd64
-	fi
-	kubectl_version=$(/usr/local/bin/k3s kubectl version --short 2>/dev/null | grep "Client Version" | sed -e 's/Client Version: //' -e 's/\+k3s1//')
-	sudo curl -fL --progress-bar -o /usr/bin/kubectl https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/${kubectl_version}/bin/linux/${ARCH}/kubectl
-	sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/kubectl
-	sudo rm -rf /usr/local/bin/kubectl
-
-	mkdir -p ~/.kube
-	cp /etc/rancher/k3s/k3s.yaml ~/.kube/config
-}
-
-function deploy_k8s() {
-	echo "::group::Deploying ${KUBERNETES}"
-
-	case ${KUBERNETES} in
-		k3s) deploy_k3s ;;
-		*) >&2 echo "${KUBERNETES} flavour is not supported"; exit 2 ;;
-	esac
-
-	echo "::endgroup::"
-}
-
 function run_tests() {
     # Delete any spurious tests namespace that was left behind
     kubectl delete namespace kata-containers-k8s-tests &> /dev/null || true