diff --git a/.github/workflows/azure-e2e-test.yml b/.github/workflows/azure-e2e-test.yml
index 01e2fd8e0f..7ad529db40 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/azure-e2e-test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/azure-e2e-test.yml
@@ -31,6 +31,17 @@ jobs:
         echo "Generated unique version for the image as: ${unique_version}"
         echo "image-version=${unique_version}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
 
+  read-properties:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
+    - name: Read properties from versions.yaml
+      run: |
+        go_version="$(yq '.tools.golang' versions.yaml)"
+        [ -n "$go_version" ]
+        echo "GO_VERSION=${go_version}" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+
   build-podvm-image:
     uses: confidential-containers/cloud-api-adaptor/.github/workflows/azure-podvm-image-build.yml@main
     needs:
@@ -51,8 +62,9 @@ jobs:
     - name: Set up Go environment
       uses: actions/setup-go@v4
       with:
-        go-version: '1.20'
+        go-version: ${{ env.GO_VERSION }}
         cache-dependency-path: go.sum
+      run: echo ${{ env.GO_VERSION }}
 
     - uses: azure/login@v1
       name: 'Az CLI login'
@@ -96,7 +108,7 @@ jobs:
     - name: Set up Go environment
       uses: actions/setup-go@v4
       with:
-        go-version: '1.20'
+        go-version: ${{ env.GO_VERSION }}
 
     - name: Create provisioner file
       env: