diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yaml b/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
index 32505efdf..353e66acd 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
@@ -8,13 +8,11 @@ on:
     branches:
       - release/v*
     paths-ignore:
-      - '*.md'
       - '.gitignore'
       - 'CODEOWNERS'
       - 'LICENSE'
   pull_request:
     paths-ignore:
-    - '*.md'
     - '.gitignore'
     - 'CODEOWNERS'
     - 'LICENSE'
@@ -43,21 +41,16 @@ jobs:
           git clone --depth 1 -b release/v2.9 https://github.com/rancher/rancher.git rancherDir
           cd rancherDir
           ./scripts/chart/build chart
-          sed -i -e 's/kubeVersion: < 1.29.0-0/kubeVersion: < 1.30.0-0/' build/chart/rancher/Chart.yaml
           tar cfz "${{ runner.temp }}/rancher.tgz" -C build/chart/rancher .
           popd
 
       - run : make ci
         name: ci
 
-#      - name: Build an image for integration testing
-#        run: ./scripts/package-for-ci
-#        env:
-#          ARCH: "${{ matrix.arch }}"
-#          SHA: "${{ github.sha }}"
-
       - name : install K3d
         run : ./.github/workflows/scripts/install-k3d.sh
+        env:
+          K3D_VERSION: latest
 
       - name : setup cluster
         run : ./.github/workflows/scripts/setup-cluster.sh
@@ -72,14 +65,10 @@ jobs:
       - name : start rancher
         run : ./.github/workflows/scripts/start-rancher.sh
         env:
-          ARCH: "${{ matrix.arch }}"
           CHART_PATH: "${{ runner.temp }}/rancher.tgz"
           RANCHER_IMAGE_TAG: "v2.9-head"
           VERSION: "2.9"
 
-      - name : debug show image_tag file
-        run : cat dist/image_tag
-
       - name : get vars
         run : cat dist/image_tag >> $GITHUB_ENV
 
@@ -89,5 +78,5 @@ jobs:
           ARCH: "${{ matrix.arch }}"
           CLUSTER_NAME: webhook
           IMAGE_REPO: rancher/webhook
-          IMAGE_TAG: "${{ env.TAG }}"
+          IMAGE_TAG: "${{ env.IMAGE_TAG }}"
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish.yaml b/.github/workflows/publish.yaml
index 4760ea10a..514f8d083 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/publish.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish.yaml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ name : Publish Webhook Images
 on:
   push:
     tags:
-      - "*"
+      - release/v*
 
 env:
   REGISTRY: docker.io
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yaml b/.github/workflows/release.yaml
index 2fa0f16de..08842f155 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yaml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ name: goreleaser
 on:
   push:
     tags:
-      - '*'
+      - release/v*
 
 permissions:
   contents: write
@@ -22,12 +22,11 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           fetch-tags: true
-      - uses: actions/setup-go@v5
+      - uses: actions/setup-go@0c52d547c9bc32b1aa3301fd7a9cb496313a4491 # v5.0.0
         with:
-          go-version: 1.22
+          go-version-file: 'go.mod'
       - name: Package release helm charts
-        run: make package-helm
-      - run: mkdir -p ./build/artifacts/ && mv -v ./dist/artifacts/ ./build/
+        run: make package-helm && mkdir -p ./build/artifacts/ && mv -v ./dist/artifacts/ ./build/
       - uses: goreleaser/goreleaser-action@v5
         with:
           distribution: goreleaser
diff --git a/.github/workflows/scripts/install-k3d.sh b/.github/workflows/scripts/install-k3d.sh
index 51ed39f9f..6993f3312 100755
--- a/.github/workflows/scripts/install-k3d.sh
+++ b/.github/workflows/scripts/install-k3d.sh
@@ -1,17 +1,18 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-set -e
-set -x
+set -eu
 
+REPO_URL=https://github.com/rancher/k3d
 K3D_URL=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/k3d-io/k3d/main/install.sh
-DEFAULT_K3D_VERSION=v5.4.6
 
 install_k3d(){
-  local k3dVersion=${K3D_VERSION:-${DEFAULT_K3D_VERSION}}
-  echo -e "Downloading k3d@${k3dVersion} see: ${K3D_URL}"
-  curl --silent --fail ${K3D_URL} | TAG=${k3dVersion} bash
+  if [ -z "${K3D_VERSION:-}" -o "${K3D_VERSION:-}" = "latest" ] ; then
+    K3D_VERSION=$(curl -Ls -o /dev/null -w %{url_effective} "${REPO_URL}/releases/latest" | grep -oE "[^/]+$")
+  fi
+  echo -e "Downloading k3d@${K3D_VERSION} from ${K3D_URL}"
+  curl --silent --fail ${K3D_URL} | TAG=${K3D_VERSION} bash
 }
 
 install_k3d
 
-k3d version
\ No newline at end of file
+k3d version
diff --git a/.github/workflows/scripts/integration-test-ci b/.github/workflows/scripts/integration-test-ci
index 2481d00fc..d5552c89b 100755
--- a/.github/workflows/scripts/integration-test-ci
+++ b/.github/workflows/scripts/integration-test-ci
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-set -eux
+set -eu
 
 cd $(dirname $0)/../../..
 DIST_DIR="$PWD"/dist
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ echo "Uploading new webhook image"
 
 # Install the webhook chart we just built.
 upgrade_rancher_webhook() {
-   helm upgrade rancher-webhook ./dist/artifacts/rancher-webhook-${HELM_VERSION}.tgz -n cattle-system \
+   helm upgrade rancher-webhook ./dist/artifacts/rancher-webhook-${HELM_CHART_VERSION}.tgz -n cattle-system \
     --wait --timeout=120s --set image.repository="${IMAGE_REPO}" --set image.tag="${IMAGE_TAG}" --reuse-values --debug
 }
 
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ set -e
 ./bin/rancher-webhook-integration.test -test.v -test.run IntegrationTest
 
 # Install the webhook chart with new ports.
-helm upgrade rancher-webhook ./dist/artifacts/rancher-webhook-${HELM_VERSION}.tgz -n cattle-system \
+helm upgrade rancher-webhook ./dist/artifacts/rancher-webhook-${HELM_CHART_VERSION}.tgz -n cattle-system \
     --wait --reuse-values --set port=443
 
 # Test that the ports are set as expected and run a single integration test to verify the webhook is still accessible.
@@ -78,5 +78,4 @@ helm upgrade rancher-webhook ./dist/artifacts/rancher-webhook-${HELM_VERSION}.tg
 # Scale down rancher-webhook so that we can run tests on the FailurePolicy.
 kubectl scale deploy rancher-webhook -n cattle-system --replicas=0
 kubectl wait pods -l app=rancher-webhook --for=delete -n cattle-system
-kubectl wait pods -l app=rancher-webhook --for=delete -n cattle-system
 ./bin/rancher-webhook-integration.test -test.v -test.run FailurePolicyTest
diff --git a/.github/workflows/scripts/setup-cluster.sh b/.github/workflows/scripts/setup-cluster.sh
index 8da39fc0f..2930e775e 100755
--- a/.github/workflows/scripts/setup-cluster.sh
+++ b/.github/workflows/scripts/setup-cluster.sh
@@ -57,12 +57,10 @@ wait_for_nodes(){
   done
 }
 
-k3d registry list --no-headers -o json | jq -r '.[].name' | xargs --no-run-if-empty k3d registry delete
-k3d cluster delete $CLUSTER_NAME || true
 k3d registry create gha -p 42765
 k3d cluster create $CLUSTER_NAME --servers 1 --agents 1 \
     --registry-use gha:42765 \
-    --image "docker.io/rancher/k3s:${K3S_VERSION}" --api-port 6550
+    --image "rancher/k3s:${K3S_VERSION}" --api-port 6550
 
 wait_for_nodes
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/scripts/start-rancher.sh b/.github/workflows/scripts/start-rancher.sh
index 86e261211..1d8e23194 100755
--- a/.github/workflows/scripts/start-rancher.sh
+++ b/.github/workflows/scripts/start-rancher.sh
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ set -e
 
 helm repo update
 
-helm upgrade --install cert-manager --namespace cert-manager cert-manager/cert-manager --set installCRDs=true --set "extraArgs[0]=--enable-certificate-owner-ref=true" --create-namespace --wait --timeout=10m
+helm upgrade --install cert-manager --namespace cert-manager cert-manager/cert-manager --set installCRDs=true --create-namespace --wait --timeout=10m
 
 # kubectl get pods --namespace cert-manager
 kubectl rollout status --namespace cert-manager deploy/cert-manager --timeout 1m
diff --git a/Dockerfile.dapper b/Dockerfile.dapper
index 62303aef6..9f5306abf 100644
--- a/Dockerfile.dapper
+++ b/Dockerfile.dapper
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ RUN if [ "${ARCH}" = "amd64" ]; then \
 
 RUN GOBIN=/usr/local/bin go install github.com/golang/mock/mockgen@v1.6.0
 
-ENV DAPPER_ENV REPO TAG DRONE_TAG CROSS
+ENV DAPPER_ENV REPO TAG CROSS
 ENV DAPPER_SOURCE /go/src/github.com/rancher/webhook/
 ENV DAPPER_OUTPUT ./bin ./dist
 ENV DAPPER_DOCKER_SOCKET true
diff --git a/package/Dockerfile b/package/Dockerfile
index 111efe47d..b52dd3a86 100644
--- a/package/Dockerfile
+++ b/package/Dockerfile
@@ -11,4 +11,4 @@ COPY bin/webhook /usr/bin/
 
 USER $user
 
-CMD ["/usr/bin/webhook"]
+CMD ["webhook"]
diff --git a/scripts/integration-test b/scripts/integration-test
index 3c73322cc..1fd719375 100755
--- a/scripts/integration-test
+++ b/scripts/integration-test
@@ -1,44 +1,83 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-set -exu
+set -e
+export KUBECONFIG=
+export CATTLE_DEV_MODE=yes
+export CATTLE_SERVER_URL="https://$(ip route get 8.8.8.8 | awk '{print $7}'):443"
+export CATTLE_BOOTSTRAP_PASSWORD="admin"
+export CATTLE_FEATURES="harvester=false"
 
 cd $(dirname $0)/../
 
-source ./scripts/try.sh
+echo "Starting Rancher Server"
+entrypoint.sh >./rancher.log 2>&1 &
+RANCHER_PID=$!
 
-# Wait for rancher to start up
-try --delay 2 --max 30 --waitmsg "Waiting for rancher to start" --failmsg "No rancher here" kubectl rollout status --watch=true --timeout=10s -n cattle-system deploy/rancher
-echo "Rancher deployed"
+echo "Waiting for Rancher health check..."
+while ! curl -sf http://localhost:80/healthz >/dev/null 2>&1; do
+    echo "Waiting for Rancher's /healthz endpoint to become available"
+    sleep 2
+done
 
-# Wait for the rancher webhook to start up
-try --delay 2 --max 30 --waitmsg "Waiting for rancher/webhook to be deployed" --failmsg "No webhook here" kubectl rollout status --watch=true --timeout=10s -n cattle-system deploy/rancher-webhook
-echo "Webhook deployed"
-
-webhook_deployed() {
-    status=$(kubectl get apps.catalog.cattle.io -n cattle-system rancher-webhook -o jsonpath="{@.status.summary.state}") && [[ "$status" == "deployed" ]]
-}
+# Tail the rancher logs if rancher fails to deploy the webhook after 5 minutes.
+bash -c "sleep 300 && echo 'Rancher has not deployed webhook after 5m tailing logs' && tail -f ./rancher.log" &
+# Get PID of the tail command so we can kill it if needed
+TAIL_PID=$!
 
 # Wait for Rancher to deploy rancher-webhook.
-try --delay 2 --max 30 --waitmsg "Waiting for webhook to be deployed (2)" webhook_deployed
+while ! kubectl rollout status -w -n cattle-system deploy/rancher-webhook >/dev/null 2>&1; do
+    echo "Waiting for rancher to deploy rancher-webhook..."
+    sleep 2
+done
 echo "Webhook deployed"
 
-# Shut down the core rancher part, but leave the rest of the rancher environment running
-
-kubectl scale deploy rancher -n cattle-system --replicas=0 --timeout=10m
-kubectl wait pods -l app=rancher-webhook --for=delete --namespace cattle-system --timeout=10m
-
-echo "Rancher has been stopped."
+# After rancher deploys webhook kill the bash command running tail.
+kill ${TAIL_PID}
+
+# Wait for helm operation to complete and save rancher-webhook release info before we kill rancher and the cluster.
+while 
+	status=$(kubectl get apps.catalog.cattle.io -n cattle-system rancher-webhook -o jsonpath="{@.status.summary.state}")
+	[[ "$status" != "deployed" ]]
+do 
+	echo "Waiting for helm operation to finish, current status $status"
+	sleep 2
+done
+
+# Kill Rancher since we only need the CRDs and the initial webhook values.
+# We do not want Rancher to reconcile an older version of the webhook during test.
+kill ${RANCHER_PID}
+
+echo "Rancher has been stopped starting K3s."
+# Start Cluster without Rancher.
+k3s server --cluster-init --disable=traefik,servicelb,metrics-server,local-storage --node-name=local-node --log=./k3s.log >/dev/null 2>&1 &
+KUBECONFIG=/etc/rancher/k3s/k3s.yaml
+
+# Wait for cluster to start.
+while ! kubectl version >/dev/null 2>&1; do
+    echo "Waiting for cluster to start"
+    sleep 5
+done
 
 echo "Uploading new webhook image"
 
+###### Upload the newly created webhook image to containerd, then install the webhook chart using the new image
+IMAGE_FILE=./dist/rancher-webhook-image.tar
+# import image to containerd and get the image name
+WEBHOOK_REPO=$(ctr image import ${IMAGE_FILE} | cut -d ' ' -f 2 | cut -d ':' -f 1)
+
 # Source tags file to get the last built tags
 source ./dist/tags
 
 # Install the webhook chart we just built.
-upgrade_rancher_webhook() {
-   helm upgrade rancher-webhook ./dist/artifacts/rancher-webhook-${HELM_VERSION}.tgz -n cattle-system \
-    --wait --set image.repository="${IMAGE_REPO}" --set image.tag="${IMAGE_TAG}" --reuse-values --debug
-}
-try --delay 2 --max 4 --failmsg "Couldn't helm upgrade rancher-webhook" upgrade_rancher_webhook
+# This command can fail since it is so close to the cluster start so we will give it 3 retires.
+RETRIES=0
+while ! helm upgrade rancher-webhook ./dist/artifacts/rancher-webhook-${HELM_VERSION}.tgz -n cattle-system \
+    --wait --set image.repository=${WEBHOOK_REPO} --set image.tag=${TAG} --reuse-values; do
+    if [ "$RETRIES" -ge 3 ]; then
+        exit 1
+    fi
+    RETRIES=$((RETRIES + 1))
+    sleep 2
+done
 
 ./bin/rancher-webhook-integration.test -test.v -test.run IntegrationTest
 
@@ -53,5 +92,4 @@ helm upgrade rancher-webhook ./dist/artifacts/rancher-webhook-${HELM_VERSION}.tg
 # Scale down rancher-webhook so that we can run tests on the FailurePolicy.
 kubectl scale deploy rancher-webhook -n cattle-system --replicas=0
 kubectl wait pods -l app=rancher-webhook --for=delete -n cattle-system
-
 ./bin/rancher-webhook-integration.test -test.v -test.run FailurePolicyTest
diff --git a/scripts/package b/scripts/package
index 7b330966b..c2d07a3c7 100755
--- a/scripts/package
+++ b/scripts/package
@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@ set -eu
 
 source $(dirname $0)/version
 
-set -x
-
 cd $(dirname $0)/..
 
 echo Running package
@@ -32,7 +30,7 @@ fi
 echo Built ${IMAGE}
 
 docker save -o dist/rancher-webhook-image.tar ${IMAGE}
-echo TAG="${TAG}" > dist/image_tag
+echo IMAGE_TAG="${TAG}" > dist/image_tag
 
 if [ "${PUSH:-}" = "true" ]; then
     docker push ${IMAGE}
diff --git a/scripts/package-for-ci b/scripts/package-for-ci
deleted file mode 100755
index 368d4efc3..000000000
--- a/scripts/package-for-ci
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-set -eu
-
-if [ -z "${SHA:-}" ] ; then
-  echo "$0 - SHA not set in the environment"
-  exit 1
-fi
-
-source $(dirname $0)/version
-
-set -x
-
-echo "QQQ: scripts/package: SHA is ${SHA}"
-REPO=rancher
-IMAGE=${REPO}/webhook:${TAG}
-docker tag ${IMAGE} "${REPO}/webhook:${SHA}"
-docker save -o dist/rancher-webhook-image-${SHA}.tar "${REPO}/webhook:${SHA}"
diff --git a/scripts/package-helm b/scripts/package-helm
index 392c32ff1..3f3a94b90 100755
--- a/scripts/package-helm
+++ b/scripts/package-helm
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ cp -rf charts build/
 
 # must use sed -i'<backup_extension>'` for GNU and OSX compatibility
 sed -i'.bkp' \
-    -e 's/^version:.*/version: '${HELM_VERSION}'/' \
-    -e 's/appVersion:.*/appVersion: '${HELM_VERSION}'/' \
+    -e 's/^version:.*/version: '${HELM_CHART_VERSION}'/' \
+    -e 's/appVersion:.*/appVersion: '${HELM_CHART_VERSION}'/' \
     build/charts/rancher-webhook/Chart.yaml
 
 sed -i'.bkb' \
diff --git a/scripts/test-helm b/scripts/test-helm
index a1e95d1e6..d5d61b696 100755
--- a/scripts/test-helm
+++ b/scripts/test-helm
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 set -e
 cd $(dirname $0)/..
 
-./scripts/package-helm
 echo Running helm lint
 helm lint ./charts/rancher-webhook
 # Check for unittest plugin
diff --git a/scripts/version b/scripts/version
index 5e482d32a..3d25739f4 100755
--- a/scripts/version
+++ b/scripts/version
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ if [ -n "$(git status --porcelain --untracked-files=no)" ]; then
 fi
 
 COMMIT=${COMMIT:-$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)}
-GIT_TAG=${GIT_TAG:-${DRONE_TAG:-$(git tag -l --contains HEAD | head -n 1)}}
+GIT_TAG=${GIT_TAG:-$(git tag -l --contains HEAD | head -n 1)}
 
 if [[ -z "$DIRTY" && -n "$GIT_TAG" ]]; then
     VERSION=$GIT_TAG
@@ -21,16 +21,16 @@ fi
 SUFFIX="-${ARCH}"
 
 HELM_TAG="${HELM_TAG:-${TAG:-${VERSION}}}"
-HELM_VERSION="${HELM_VERSION:-${HELM_TAG/v/}}"
+HELM_CHART_VERSION="${HELM_CHART_VERSION:-${HELM_TAG/v/}}"
 TAG="${TAG:-${VERSION}${SUFFIX}}"
 REPO="${REPO:-rancher}"
 
 if echo $TAG | grep -q dirty; then
     TAG=dev
     HELM_TAG=dev
-    HELM_VERSION=0.0.0-dev
+    HELM_CHART_VERSION=0.0.0-dev
 fi
 
 DIST_DIR="${DIST_DIR:-$(dirname $0)/../dist/}"
 mkdir -p ${DIST_DIR}
-echo "export TAG=${TAG}; export HELM_TAG=${HELM_TAG}; export HELM_VERSION=${HELM_VERSION};" >${DIST_DIR}/tags
+echo "export TAG=${TAG}; export HELM_TAG=${HELM_TAG}; export HELM_CHART_VERSION=${HELM_CHART_VERSION};" >${DIST_DIR}/tags