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+#
+# Copyright (c) 2021 Red Hat, Inc.
+# This program and the accompanying materials are made
+# available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License 2.0
+# which is available at https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0/
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0
+#
+
+# che-plugin-registry Happy Path workflow
+# matrix jobs with alpine and ubi8
+name: Happy Path
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    paths:
+      - '.github/workflows/happy-path.yaml'
+      - '!sidecars/**'
+  push:
+    paths:
+      - '.github/workflows/happy-path.yaml'
+      - '!sidecars/**'
+
+jobs:
+  image-build:
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        dist: ['alpine', 'rhel']
+    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    steps:
+      - name: Clone source code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+      - name: image-build
+        run: |
+          if [[ "${{matrix.dist}}" == "alpine" ]]; then
+            docker pull quay.io/eclipse/che-plugin-registry:nightly
+            docker build --cache-from=quay.io/eclipse/che-plugin-registry:nightly -t che-plugin-registry-image -f ./build/dockerfiles/Dockerfile --target registry .
+          elif [[ "${{matrix.dist}}" == "rhel" ]]; then
+            docker build -t che-plugin-registry-image -f ./build/dockerfiles/rhel.Dockerfile --target registry .
+          fi
+          # save locally built image
+          docker save -o docker-image.tar che-plugin-registry-image:latest
+      - name: Start minikube
+        id: run-minikube
+        uses: che-incubator/setup-minikube-action@next
+      - name: load-image-minikube-registry
+        id: load-image-minikube-registry
+        run: |
+          # load image in the docker registry
+          eval $(minikube docker-env)
+          docker load --input=docker-image.tar
+          # display images
+          docker images
+      - name: Deploy Eclipse Che
+        id: deploy-che
+        uses: che-incubator/che-deploy-action@next
+        with:
+          # use custom image built by this PR
+          plugin-registry-image: che-plugin-registry-image:latest
+      - name: Run Happy Path tests
+        id: run-happy-path-tests
+        uses: che-incubator/happy-path-tests-action@next
+        with:
+          che-url: ${{ steps.deploy-che.outputs.che-url }}