diff --git a/.github/actions/deploy/action.yaml b/.github/actions/deploy/action.yaml
index 39afc5bb98..8a4dd4a5e3 100644
--- a/.github/actions/deploy/action.yaml
+++ b/.github/actions/deploy/action.yaml
@@ -83,6 +83,11 @@ runs:
       shell: bash
       run: sh tests/smoke/deploy-sorbet-resources.sh end2end
       working-directory: ./.github/scripts/end2end/operator
+    - name: Deploy metadata
+      shell: bash
+      run: bash deploy-metadata.sh
+      working-directory: ./.github/scripts/end2end
+      if: ${{ env.ENABLE_RING_TESTS == 'true' }}
     - name: End-to-end configuration
       shell: bash
       run: bash configure-e2e.sh "end2end" ${E2E_IMAGE_NAME}:${E2E_IMAGE_TAG} "default"
diff --git a/.github/scripts/end2end/common.sh b/.github/scripts/end2end/common.sh
index a8fc9d4246..d35d3319a2 100644
--- a/.github/scripts/end2end/common.sh
+++ b/.github/scripts/end2end/common.sh
@@ -9,3 +9,55 @@ get_token() {
         jq -cr '.id_token'
 }
 
+wait_for_endpoint() {
+    local host=$1
+    local port=$2
+    local timeout_s=$3
+
+    kubectl run wait-for-port \
+        --image=busybox \
+        --attach=True \
+        --rm \
+        --restart=Never  \
+        --pod-running-timeout=5m \
+        --image-pull-policy=IfNotPresent \
+        --env="HOST=${host}" \
+        --env="PORT=${port}" \
+        --env="TIMEOUT_S=${timeout_s}" \
+        -- sh -c '
+wait_for_endpoint() {
+    local count=0
+    echo "waiting for $HOST:$PORT to be available"
+    while ! nc -z -w 1 $HOST "$PORT"; do
+        count=$((count + 1))
+        [ "$count" -ge "$TIMEOUT_S" ] && echo "Error: timedout waiting for $HOST:$PORT after $TIMEOUT_S seconds" && return 1
+        sleep 1
+    done
+    echo "$HOST:$PORT is now available."
+}
+wait_for_endpoint
+'
+}
+
+wait_for_all_pods_behind_services() {
+    local service=$1
+    local namespace=$2
+    local port_regex=$3
+    local timeout_s=$4
+    kubectl get pods -n $namespace -l app=$service -o jsonpath='{range .items[*]}{.metadata.deletionTimestamp}:{.status.podIP}:{.spec.containers[*].ports[*].containerPort}{"\n"}{end}' | while read -r output; do
+        deletion_timestamp=$(echo $output | cut -d':' -f1)
+        ip=$(echo $output | cut -d':' -f2)
+        ports=$(echo $output | cut -d':' -f3)
+        # skip pods that are terminating
+        if [ -n "$deletion_timestamp" ] || [ -z "$ip" ] || [ -z "$ports" ]; then
+            continue
+        fi
+        # waiting for all ports that match the port prefix in cases where
+        # multiple containers are running within the same pod
+        for port in $ports; do
+            if [[ $port == $port_regex ]]; then
+                wait_for_endpoint $ip $port $timeout_s
+            fi
+        done
+    done
+}
diff --git a/.github/scripts/end2end/deploy-metadata.sh b/.github/scripts/end2end/deploy-metadata.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..814af4f7de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/scripts/end2end/deploy-metadata.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+set -exu
+
+. "$(dirname $0)/common.sh"
+
+# create a separate namespace for metadata
+kubectl create namespace metadata
+
+# clone the metadata repository
+git init metadata
+cd metadata
+git fetch --depth 1 --no-tags https://${GIT_ACCESS_TOKEN}@github.com/scality/metadata.git
+git checkout FETCH_HEAD
+
+# install metadata chart in a separate namespace
+cd helm
+helm dependency update cloudserver/
+helm install -n metadata \
+    --set metadata.persistentVolume.storageClass='' \
+    --set metadata.sproxyd.persistentVolume.storageClass='' \
+    s3c cloudserver/
+
+# wait for the repds to be created
+kubectl -n metadata rollout status --watch --timeout=300s statefulset/s3c-metadata-repd
+# wait for all repd pods to start serving admin API ports
+wait_for_all_pods_behind_services metadata-repd metadata "91*" 60
+
+# current chart uses an old version of bucketd that has issues reconnecting to the repd
+# when bucketd is started first. Restarting bucketd after repd is ready.
+kubectl -n metadata rollout restart deployment/s3c-metadata-bucketd
+# wait for the bucketd pods to be created
+kubectl -n metadata rollout status --watch --timeout=300s deploy/s3c-metadata-bucketd
+# wait for all bucketd pods to start serving port 9000
+wait_for_all_pods_behind_services metadata-bucketd metadata 9000 60
+
+# manually add "s3c.local" to the rest endpoints list as it's not configurable in the chart
+current_config=$(kubectl get configmap/s3c-cloudserver-config-json -n metadata -o jsonpath='{.data.config\.json}')
+updated_config=$(echo "$current_config" | jq '.restEndpoints["s3c.local"] = "us-east-1"')
+kubectl patch configmap/s3c-cloudserver-config-json -n metadata --type='merge' -p="$(jq -n --arg v "$updated_config" '{"data": {"config.json": $v}}')"
+
+# restarting cloudserver to take the new configmap changes into account
+kubectl -n metadata rollout restart deployment/s3c-cloudserver
+# wait for the cloudserver pods to be created
+kubectl -n metadata rollout status --watch --timeout=300s deployment/s3c-cloudserver
+# wait for the cloudserver pods to start serving port 8000
+wait_for_all_pods_behind_services cloudserver metadata 8000 60
diff --git a/.github/scripts/end2end/patch-coredns.sh b/.github/scripts/end2end/patch-coredns.sh
index f33e7c4d5b..b8b40fa376 100755
--- a/.github/scripts/end2end/patch-coredns.sh
+++ b/.github/scripts/end2end/patch-coredns.sh
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ corefile="
     rewrite name exact prom.dr.zenko.local ingress-nginx-controller.ingress-nginx.svc.cluster.local
     rewrite name exact shell-ui.dr.zenko.local ingress-nginx-controller.ingress-nginx.svc.cluster.local
     rewrite name exact website.mywebsite.com ingress-nginx-controller.ingress-nginx.svc.cluster.local
+    rewrite name exact s3c.local s3c-cloudserver.metadata.svc.cluster.local
     kubernetes cluster.local in-addr.arpa ip6.arpa {
         pods insecure
         fallthrough in-addr.arpa ip6.arpa
diff --git a/.github/workflows/end2end.yaml b/.github/workflows/end2end.yaml
index e2b88a9768..eab0da5216 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/end2end.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/end2end.yaml
@@ -76,11 +76,11 @@ env:
   GCP_BACKEND_SERVICE_EMAIL: ${{ secrets.GCP_BACKEND_SERVICE_EMAIL }}
   # Enable this for Ring tests
   ENABLE_RING_TESTS: "false"
-  RING_S3C_ACCESS_KEY: ${{ secrets.RING_S3C_BACKEND_ACCESS_KEY }}
-  RING_S3C_SECRET_KEY: ${{ secrets.RING_S3C_BACKEND_SECRET_KEY }}
-  RING_S3C_ENDPOINT: ${{ secrets.RING_S3C_BACKEND_ENDPOINT }}
+  RING_S3C_ACCESS_KEY: accessKey1
+  RING_S3C_SECRET_KEY: verySecretKey1
+  RING_S3C_ENDPOINT: http://s3c.local:8000
   RING_S3C_BACKEND_SOURCE_LOCATION: rings3cbackendingestion
-  RING_S3C_INGESTION_SRC_BUCKET_NAME: ingestion-test-src-bucket-${{ github.run_id }}-${{ github.run_attempt }}
+  RING_S3C_INGESTION_SRC_BUCKET_NAME: ingestion-test-src-bucket-${{ github.run_id }}
   # CTST end2end tests
   NOTIF_DEST_NAME: "destination1"
   NOTIF_DEST_TOPIC: "destination-topic-1"
@@ -320,9 +320,6 @@ jobs:
         run: |-
           cd tests/zenko_tests
           envsubst < 'e2e-config.yaml.template' > 'e2e-config.yaml'
-          if [[ "${ENABLE_RING_TESTS}" == "false" ]]; then
-            yq -i 'del(.locations[] | select(.locationType == "location-scality-ring-s3-v1"))' e2e-config.yaml
-          fi
           cat e2e-config.yaml
           echo 'Generated e2e-config.yaml file'
       - name: Build and push CI image
@@ -556,8 +553,9 @@ jobs:
     needs: [build-kafka, build-test-image]
     runs-on:
       - ubuntu-22.04-8core
-      # Enable this for Ring-based tests
-      # - scality-cloud
+    env:
+      ENABLE_RING_TESTS: "true"
+      GIT_ACCESS_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GIT_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
@@ -573,8 +571,6 @@ jobs:
           registry: ghcr.io
       - name: Deploy Zenko
         uses: ./.github/actions/deploy
-        env:
-          GIT_ACCESS_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GIT_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
       - name: Run backbeat end to end tests
         run: bash run-e2e-test.sh "end2end" ${E2E_IMAGE_NAME}:${E2E_IMAGE_TAG} "backbeat" "default"
         working-directory: ./.github/scripts/end2end
diff --git a/tests/zenko_tests/e2e_config/locations.py b/tests/zenko_tests/e2e_config/locations.py
index e9f5d98bcc..578f4e5057 100644
--- a/tests/zenko_tests/e2e_config/locations.py
+++ b/tests/zenko_tests/e2e_config/locations.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 
 import logging
+import os
 
 _log = logging.getLogger("end2end configuration")
 
@@ -11,6 +12,11 @@ def create_location(client, uuid, location):
     :param uuid: zenko instance uuid
     :param location: location details
     """
+    
+    ENABLE_RING_TESTS = os.environ['ENABLE_RING_TESTS']
+    if ENABLE_RING_TESTS == "false" and location["locationType"] == "location-scality-ring-s3-v1":
+        return
+    
     try:
         Location_V1 = client.get_model('location-v1')
         if "bootstrapList" not in location["details"]: