diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 0151af5d2d52..02c9ef62e273 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ variables:
   DEMO_CLUSTER_NAME: prod-eks-otel-a-us-east-1
   SANDBOX_CLUSTER_ARN: "arn:aws:eks:us-east-1:601427279990:cluster/dd-otel"
   DEMO_CLUSTER_ARN: "arn:aws:eks:us-east-1:172597598159:cluster/prod-eks-otel-a-us-east-1"
+  DEPLOY_SCRIPT: "./ci/scripts/ci-deploy.sh"
+
 
 # BUILD STAGES
 stages:
@@ -79,14 +81,13 @@ push-collector-image-staging:
       TEMP_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=$(aws ssm get-parameter --region us-east-1 --name ci.opentelemetry-collector-contrib.sand-eks-deploy-access-key --with-decryption --query Parameter.Value --out text)
     - export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=$TEMP_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
     - export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=$TEMP_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
-    - bash $SCRIPT
+    - bash $DEPLOY_SCRIPT
 #env:otel-staging
 staging-deploy:
   !!merge <<: *staging-deploy
   variables:
     CLUSTER_NAME: $SANDBOX_CLUSTER_NAME
     CLUSTER_ARN: $SANDBOX_CLUSTER_ARN
-    SCRIPT: ./ci/scripts/ci-deploy-staging.sh
     NAMESPACE: otel-staging
     NODE_GROUP: ng-3
     MODE: daemonset
@@ -98,7 +99,6 @@ staging-deploy-gateway:
   variables:
     CLUSTER_NAME: $SANDBOX_CLUSTER_NAME
     CLUSTER_ARN: $SANDBOX_CLUSTER_ARN
-    SCRIPT: ./ci/scripts/ci-deploy-staging.sh
     NAMESPACE: otel-gateway
     NODE_GROUP: ng-5
     MODE: deployment
@@ -110,7 +110,6 @@ staging-deploy-ds-gateway:
   variables:
     CLUSTER_NAME: $SANDBOX_CLUSTER_NAME
     CLUSTER_ARN: $SANDBOX_CLUSTER_ARN
-    SCRIPT: ./ci/scripts/ci-deploy-staging.sh
     NAMESPACE: otel-ds-gateway
     NODE_GROUP: ng-6
     MODE: deployment
@@ -135,14 +134,13 @@ staging-deploy-ds-gateway:
       TEMP_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=$(aws ssm get-parameter --region us-east-1 --name ci.opentelemetry-collector-contrib.eks_secret_access_key --with-decryption --query Parameter.Value --out text)
     - export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=$TEMP_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
     - export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=$TEMP_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
-    - bash $SCRIPT
+    - bash $DEPLOY_SCRIPT
 #env:otel
 prod-deploy:
   !!merge <<: *prod-deploy-demo-eks
   variables:
     CLUSTER_NAME: $DEMO_CLUSTER_NAME
     CLUSTER_ARN: $DEMO_CLUSTER_ARN
-    SCRIPT: ./ci/scripts/ci-deploy-staging.sh
     NAMESPACE: otel
     NODE_GROUP: 
     MODE: daemonset
diff --git a/ci/scripts/ci-deploy-demo.sh b/ci/scripts/ci-deploy-demo.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index 934ab9b30591..000000000000
--- a/ci/scripts/ci-deploy-demo.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-# Copyright The OpenTelemetry Authors
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
-# This script is used to deploy collector on demo account cluster
-
-set -euo pipefail
-IFS=$'\n\t'
-set -x
-
-install_collector() {
-  # Set the namespace and release name
-  release_name="opentelemetry-collector"
-  namespace="otel"
-
-  # if repo already exists, helm 3+ will skip
-  helm --debug repo add open-telemetry https://open-telemetry.github.io/opentelemetry-helm-charts
-
-  # --install will run `helm install` if not already present.
-  helm --debug upgrade "${release_name}" -n "${namespace}" open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector --install \
-    -f ./ci/values.yaml \
-    --set-string image.tag="otelcolcontrib-v$CI_COMMIT_SHORT_SHA"
-}
-
-###########################################################################################################
-clusterName="prod-eks-otel-a-us-east-1"
-clusterArn="arn:aws:eks:us-east-1:172597598159:cluster/${clusterName}"
-
-aws eks --region us-east-1 update-kubeconfig --name "${clusterName}"
-kubectl config use-context "${clusterArn}"
-
-install_collector
diff --git a/ci/scripts/ci-deploy-staging.sh b/ci/scripts/ci-deploy.sh
similarity index 95%
rename from ci/scripts/ci-deploy-staging.sh
rename to ci/scripts/ci-deploy.sh
index 4b86724a2290..65c286bac947 100644
--- a/ci/scripts/ci-deploy-staging.sh
+++ b/ci/scripts/ci-deploy.sh
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ install_collector() {
         --set replicaCount=${replicaCount}"
 
     if [ -n "$nodegroup" ]; then
-        helm_cmd+=" --set nodeSelector.alpha\\.eksctl\\.io/nodegroup-name=${nodegroup}"
+        helm_cmd+=" --set nodeSelector.\"alpha\\.eksctl\\.io/nodegroup-name\"=${nodegroup}"
     fi
 
 	eval $helm_cmd