diff --git a/.github/workflows/deploy.yaml b/.github/workflows/deploy.yaml
index bb90810..9c5cc06 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/deploy.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/deploy.yaml
@@ -32,11 +32,16 @@ jobs:
           docker pull quay.io/centos/centos:7
           docker pull quay.io/centos7/s2i-base-centos7:centos7
           docker image ls | grep centos
+      - name: Setup Python 3.x
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.11.5'
       - name: Setup virtualenv and install cekit and required packages
         run: |
+          python --version
           sudo pip install virtualenv
           mkdir ~/cekit${{ env.CEKIT_VERSION }}
-          virtualenv ~/cekit${{ env.CEKIT_VERSION }}
+          python3 -m venv ~/cekit${{ env.CEKIT_VERSION }}
           . ~/cekit${{ env.CEKIT_VERSION }}/bin/activate
           pip install cekit==${{ env.CEKIT_VERSION }} docker==5.0.3 docker-squash odcs behave lxml urllib3==1.26.15 packaging==21.3 requests==2.31.0
       - name: install s2i binary