diff --git a/extensions/kubernetes/vanilla/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/kubernetes/deployment/KubernetesProcessor.java b/extensions/kubernetes/vanilla/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/kubernetes/deployment/KubernetesProcessor.java
index cb135082a20576..f30f0a74092cce 100644
--- a/extensions/kubernetes/vanilla/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/kubernetes/deployment/KubernetesProcessor.java
+++ b/extensions/kubernetes/vanilla/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/kubernetes/deployment/KubernetesProcessor.java
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
 import io.quarkus.deployment.builditem.GeneratedFileSystemResourceBuildItem;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.builditem.LaunchModeBuildItem;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.pkg.PackageConfig;
+import io.quarkus.deployment.pkg.builditem.JarBuildItem;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.pkg.builditem.OutputTargetBuildItem;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.util.FileUtil;
 import io.quarkus.kubernetes.spi.ConfigurationSupplierBuildItem;
@@ -93,6 +94,7 @@ public void preventContainerPush(ContainerImageConfig containerImageConfig,
     @BuildStep(onlyIfNot = IsTest.class)
     public void build(ApplicationInfoBuildItem applicationInfo,
             OutputTargetBuildItem outputTarget,
+            JarBuildItem jarBuildItem,
             PackageConfig packageConfig,
             KubernetesConfig kubernetesConfig,
             OpenshiftConfig openshiftConfig,
@@ -125,13 +127,10 @@ public void build(ApplicationInfoBuildItem applicationInfo,
                 .map(DeploymentTargetEntry::getName)
                 .collect(Collectors.toSet());
 
-        Path artifactPath = outputTarget.getOutputDirectory()
-                .resolve(String.format(OUTPUT_ARTIFACT_FORMAT, outputTarget.getBaseName(), packageConfig.getRunnerSuffix()));
-
         try {
             // by passing false to SimpleFileWriter, we ensure that no files are actually written during this phase
             Optional<Project> optionalProject = KubernetesCommonHelper.createProject(applicationInfo, customProjectRoot,
-                    artifactPath);
+                    jarBuildItem.getPath());
             optionalProject.ifPresent(project -> {
 
                 final Map<String, String> generatedResourcesMap;
diff --git a/integration-tests/kubernetes/quarkus-standard-way/src/test/java/io/quarkus/it/kubernetes/OpenshiftWithKubernetesConfigTest.java b/integration-tests/kubernetes/quarkus-standard-way/src/test/java/io/quarkus/it/kubernetes/OpenshiftWithKubernetesConfigTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..62b997b1feb1aa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/integration-tests/kubernetes/quarkus-standard-way/src/test/java/io/quarkus/it/kubernetes/OpenshiftWithKubernetesConfigTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+package io.quarkus.it.kubernetes;
+
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import org.assertj.core.api.AbstractObjectAssert;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.extension.RegisterExtension;
+
+import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.EnvVar;
+import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.HasMetadata;
+import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.PodSpec;
+import io.quarkus.builder.Version;
+import io.quarkus.maven.dependency.Dependency;
+import io.quarkus.test.ProdBuildResults;
+import io.quarkus.test.ProdModeTestResults;
+import io.quarkus.test.QuarkusProdModeTest;
+
+public class OpenshiftWithKubernetesConfigTest {
+
+    private static final String NAME = "openshift-with-kubernetes-config";
+
+    @RegisterExtension
+    static final QuarkusProdModeTest config = new QuarkusProdModeTest()
+            .withApplicationRoot((jar) -> jar.addClasses(GreetingResource.class))
+            .setApplicationName(NAME)
+            .setApplicationVersion("0.1-SNAPSHOT")
+            .setForcedDependencies(List.of(Dependency.of("io.quarkus", "quarkus-openshift", Version.getVersion()),
+                    Dependency.of("io.quarkus", "quarkus-kubernetes-config", Version.getVersion())));
+
+    @ProdBuildResults
+    private ProdModeTestResults prodModeTestResults;
+
+    @Test
+    public void assertGeneratedResources() throws IOException {
+        Path kubernetesDir = prodModeTestResults.getBuildDir().resolve("kubernetes");
+
+        assertThat(kubernetesDir)
+                .isDirectoryContaining(p -> p.getFileName().endsWith("openshift.json"))
+                .isDirectoryContaining(p -> p.getFileName().endsWith("openshift.yml"));
+        List<HasMetadata> openshiftList = DeserializationUtil.deserializeAsList(
+                kubernetesDir.resolve("openshift.yml"));
+
+        assertThat(openshiftList).filteredOn(h -> "DeploymentConfig".equals(h.getKind())).singleElement().satisfies(h -> {
+            assertThat(h.getMetadata()).satisfies(m -> {
+                assertThat(m.getName()).isEqualTo(NAME);
+                assertThat(m.getLabels().get("app.openshift.io/runtime")).isEqualTo("quarkus");
+            });
+
+            AbstractObjectAssert<?, ?> specAssert = assertThat(h).extracting("spec");
+            specAssert.extracting("template").extracting("spec").isInstanceOfSatisfying(PodSpec.class,
+                    podSpec -> {
+                        assertThat(podSpec.getContainers()).singleElement().satisfies(container -> {
+                            List<EnvVar> envVars = container.getEnv();
+                            assertThat(envVars).anySatisfy(envVar -> {
+                                assertThat(envVar.getName()).isEqualTo("JAVA_APP_JAR");
+                                assertThat(envVar.getValue()).isEqualTo("/deployments/quarkus-run.jar");
+                            });
+                        });
+                    });
+        });
+    }
+}