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+name: K8s Deploy Test
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    branches: '*'
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+      - ci-test
+    paths-ignore:
+      - '.gitea/workflows/triggers/*'
+
+# Needed until we can incorporate docker startup into the executor container
+env:
+  DOCKER_HOST: unix:///var/run/dind.sock
+
+jobs:
+  test:
+    name: "Run deploy test suite"
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: "Clone project repository"
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      # At present the stock setup-python action fails on Linux/aarch64
+      # Conditional steps below workaroud this by using deadsnakes for that case only
+      - name: "Install Python for ARM on Linux"
+        if: ${{ runner.arch == 'arm64' && runner.os == 'Linux' }}
+        uses: deadsnakes/action@v3.0.1
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.8'
+      - name: "Install Python cases other than ARM on Linux"
+        if: ${{ ! (runner.arch == 'arm64' && runner.os == 'Linux') }}
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.8'
+      - name: "Print Python version"
+        run: python3 --version
+      - name: "Install shiv"
+        run: pip install shiv
+      - name: "Generate build version file"
+        run: ./scripts/create_build_tag_file.sh
+      - name: "Build local shiv package"
+        run: ./scripts/build_shiv_package.sh
+      - name: Start dockerd # Also needed until we can incorporate into the executor
+        run: |
+          dockerd -H $DOCKER_HOST --userland-proxy=false &
+          sleep 5
+      - name: "Install Go"
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v4
+        with:
+          go-version: '1.21'
+      - name: "Install Kind"
+        run: go install sigs.k8s.io/kind@v0.20.0
+      - name: "Run k8s deploy tests"
+        run: ./tests/k8s-deploy/run-deploy-test.sh