diff --git a/.github/workflows/kata-deploy-test.yaml b/.github/workflows/kata-deploy-test.yaml
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-on: issue_comment
-name: test-kata-deploy
-jobs:
-  check_comments:
-    if: ${{ github.event.issue.pull_request }}
-    types: [created, edited]
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - name: Check for Command
-        id: command
-        uses: kata-containers/slash-command-action@v1
-        with:
-          repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-          command: "test-kata-deploy"
-          reaction: "true"
-          reaction-type: "eyes"
-          allow-edits: "false"
-          permission-level: admin
-      - name: verify command arg is kata-deploy
-        run: |
-           echo "The command was '${{ steps.command.outputs.command-name }}' with arguments '${{ steps.command.outputs.command-arguments }}'"
-  create-and-test-container:
-    needs: check_comments
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - name: get-PR-ref
-        id: get-PR-ref
-        run: |
-            ref=$(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
-        with:
-          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=$(curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/main/VERSION)
-            ARTIFACT_URL="https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/releases/download/${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
-            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
-        with:
-          packaging-sha: ${{ steps.build-container-image.outputs.pr-sha }}
-        env:
-          PKG_SHA: ${{ steps.build-container-image.outputs.pr-sha }}
-          AZ_APPID: ${{ secrets.AZ_APPID }}
-          AZ_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.AZ_PASSWORD }}
-          AZ_SUBSCRIPTION_ID: ${{ secrets.AZ_SUBSCRIPTION_ID }}
-          AZ_TENANT_ID: ${{ secrets.AZ_TENANT_ID }}