diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/321-kubectl_sleep.yml b/changelogs/fragments/321-kubectl_sleep.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6839924b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/321-kubectl_sleep.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+---
+minor_changes:
+- kubectl - wait for dd command to complete before proceeding (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/321).
diff --git a/plugins/connection/kubectl.py b/plugins/connection/kubectl.py
index a8fcbf5c..980b54a3 100644
--- a/plugins/connection/kubectl.py
+++ b/plugins/connection/kubectl.py
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):
                 [
                     self._play_context.executable,
                     "-c",
-                    "dd of=%s bs=%s%s" % (out_path, BUFSIZE, count),
+                    "dd of=%s bs=%s%s && sleep 0" % (out_path, BUFSIZE, count),
                 ]
             )
             args = [to_bytes(i, errors="surrogate_or_strict") for i in args]