diff --git a/.github/workflows/basic-ci-amd64.yaml b/.github/workflows/basic-ci-amd64.yaml
index f88842e694..e54289287f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/basic-ci-amd64.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/basic-ci-amd64.yaml
@@ -279,50 +279,6 @@ 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 41aafe0e44..cab3d4724e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/basic-ci-s390x.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/basic-ci-s390x.yaml
@@ -106,44 +106,3 @@ 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
deleted file mode 100755
index 6860cd108a..0000000000
--- a/tests/integration/docker/gha-run.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
-#!/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 "${action}" in
-		install-dependencies) install_dependencies ;;
-		install-kata) install_kata ;;
-		run) run ;;
-		*) >&2 die "Invalid argument" ;;
-	esac
-}
-
-main "$@"