diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yaml b/.github/workflows/build.yaml
index c0445470..d7458aca 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yaml
@@ -35,6 +35,9 @@ jobs:
       - name: build
         run: |
           VERBOSE=1 make build
+      - name: unit tests
+        run: |
+          VERBOSE=1 make unit-tests
       - name: lowercase the runner OS name
         shell: bash
         run: |
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yaml b/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
index 3ad3f11b..f0d3e491 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
@@ -37,13 +37,12 @@ jobs:
           path: _artifacts
       - name: Extract containerd-wasm-shims-v1-linux-${{ env.ARCH }}
         run: |
-          mkdir -p deployments/k3d/.tmp
-          tar -xzf _artifacts/containerd-wasm-shims-v1-linux-${{ env.ARCH }}.tar.gz -C deployments/k3d/.tmp
+          tar -xzf _artifacts/containerd-wasm-shims-v1-linux-${{ env.ARCH }}.tar.gz -C _artifacts
       - name: install k3d
         run: make install-k3d
         working-directory: ./deployments/k3d
       - name: run integration tests
-        run: make integration-test
+        run: BIN_DIR=_artifacts make integration-test
       - name: clean up k3d
         if: always()
         run: make test/clean
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 06e2b27f..5fa4cc12 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ workloads:
 	./scripts/workloads.sh
 
 .PHONY: integration-tests
-integration-tests: build check-bins move-bins up pod-status-check workloads
+integration-tests: check-bins move-bins up pod-status-check workloads
 	cargo test -- --nocapture
 
 .PHONY: tests/clean