diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci-kind-deploy.yml b/.github/workflows/ci-kind-deploy.yml
index 267eca1e1..ba1f50def 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci-kind-deploy.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci-kind-deploy.yml
@@ -27,17 +27,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Run helm lint
         run: |
-          ./scripts/helm_lint.sh ./helm
+          helm lint ./helm
 
       - name: Render chart manifests
         run: helm template ./helm > rendered-manifests.yaml
 
-      - name: Validate rendered manifests with kubeconform
-        uses: instrumenta/kubeconform-action@v1
-        with:
-          files: rendered-manifests.yaml
-          args: -strict
-
   unit-tests:
     name: Unit tests
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
@@ -111,7 +105,10 @@ jobs:
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Setup kind
-        uses: engineerd/setup-kind@v0.5.0
+        uses: helm/kind-action@v1
+        with:
+          cluster_name: kind
+          wait: 120s
 
       - name: Build Docker image
         run: docker build -t $IMAGE .