diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index c316c36b..625442b6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -82,8 +82,11 @@ jobs:
         with:
           path: ansible_collections/kubernetes/core
 
-      - name: Set up KinD cluster
-        uses: engineerd/setup-kind@v0.5.0
+      # We are facing some issue with the github action used to spawn k8s cluster
+      # This will be done into a dedicated prepare step for molecule, with the added benefit that
+      # it is no more github dependant
+      # - name: Set up KinD cluster
+      #   uses: engineerd/setup-kind@v0.5.0
 
       - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python_version }}
         uses: actions/setup-python@v1
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 01b4466a..079e9742 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -13,3 +13,6 @@ changelogs/.plugin-cache.yaml
 tests/output
 tests/integration/cloud-config-*
 .cache
+
+# Helm charts
+molecule/default/*-chart-*.tgz
diff --git a/molecule/default/molecule.yml b/molecule/default/molecule.yml
index e6b1cddc..2c89b108 100644
--- a/molecule/default/molecule.yml
+++ b/molecule/default/molecule.yml
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ scenario:
     - dependency
     - lint
     - syntax
+    - prepare
     - converge
     - verify
 dependency:
diff --git a/molecule/default/prepare.yml b/molecule/default/prepare.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..91a1afdd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/molecule/default/prepare.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+---
+- name: Prepare
+  hosts: localhost
+  connection: local
+
+  collections:
+    - kubernetes.core
+
+  vars:
+    node_taints:
+      - "node.kubernetes.io/not-ready"
+      - "node.kubernetes.io/unreachable"
+      - "node.kubernetes.io/unschedulable"
+
+  tasks:
+    # We are spawning k8s cluster using kind executable and we ensure that the cluster is up
+    # and node is ready, if this is not validated we may face issue later on when running tests
+    - name: Download kind
+      get_url:
+        url: https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/dl/v0.11.1/kind-linux-amd64
+        dest: /tmp/kind
+
+    - name: make kind executable
+      file:
+        path: /tmp/kind
+        mode: '0755'
+
+    - name: Create cluster
+      command: "kind create cluster"
+
+    - name: Assert that nodes are ready
+      k8s_info:
+        kind: Node
+      retries: 10
+      delay: 30
+      register: nodes
+      until: nodes.resources | selectattr("spec.taints", "defined") |  map(attribute="spec.taints") | list | length == 0