diff --git a/.github/workflows/canary-test-config/action.yaml b/.github/workflows/canary-test-config/action.yaml
index 2f939978c..1feb8c266 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/canary-test-config/action.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/canary-test-config/action.yaml
@@ -8,18 +8,12 @@ inputs:
 runs:
   using: "composite"
   steps:
-    - name: manually remove gcloud
-      shell: bash --noprofile --norc -eo pipefail -x {0}
-      run: |
-        tests/scripts/github-action-helper.sh remove_gcloud_in_runner
-
     - name: Free Disk Space (Ubuntu)
       uses: jlumbroso/free-disk-space@main
       with:
         # this might remove tools that are actually needed,
         # if set to "true" but frees about 6 GB
         tool-cache: true
-        large-packages: false
 
     - name: setup golang
       uses: actions/setup-go@v2
diff --git a/.github/workflows/integration-test-config-latest-k8s/action.yaml b/.github/workflows/integration-test-config-latest-k8s/action.yaml
index 04769d4b4..45646b8d1 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/integration-test-config-latest-k8s/action.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/integration-test-config-latest-k8s/action.yaml
@@ -11,18 +11,12 @@ inputs:
 runs:
   using: "composite"
   steps:
-    - name: manually remove gcloud
-      shell: bash --noprofile --norc -eo pipefail -x {0}
-      run: |
-        tests/scripts/github-action-helper.sh remove_gcloud_in_runner
-
     - name: Free Disk Space (Ubuntu)
       uses: jlumbroso/free-disk-space@main
       with:
         # this might remove tools that are actually needed,
         # if set to "true" but frees about 6 GB
         tool-cache: true
-        large-packages: false
 
     - name: setup golang
       uses: actions/setup-go@v2
diff --git a/tests/scripts/github-action-helper.sh b/tests/scripts/github-action-helper.sh
index 95b142e2e..b5dbd1f45 100755
--- a/tests/scripts/github-action-helper.sh
+++ b/tests/scripts/github-action-helper.sh
@@ -679,26 +679,6 @@ function test_csi_nfs_workload {
   kubectl exec -t pod/csinfs-demo-pod -- ls -alh /var/lib/www/html/
 }
 
-function remove_gcloud_in_runner() {
-  gcloud_sdk_root=$(gcloud info --format='value(installation.sdk_root)')
-  gcloud_global_config=$(gcloud info --format='value(config.paths.global_config_dir)')
-
-  echo "will remove directory : $gcloud_sdk_root"
-  echo "will remove directory : $gcloud_global_config"
-
-  sudo rm -fr "$gcloud_sdk_root"
-  sudo rm -fr "$gcloud_global_config"
-
-  sudo apt-get remove -y '^dotnet-.*'
-  sudo apt-get remove -y '^llvm-.*'
-  sudo apt-get remove -y 'php.*'
-  sudo apt-get remove -y '^mongodb-.*'
-  sudo apt-get remove -y '^mysql-.*'
-  sudo apt-get remove -y azure-cli google-chrome-stable firefox powershell mono-devel libgl1-mesa-dri
-  sudo apt-get autoremove -y
-  sudo apt-get clean
-}
-
 function install_minikube_with_none_driver() {
   CRICTL_VERSION="v1.28.0"
   MINIKUBE_VERSION="v1.31.2"