diff --git a/.github/actions/setup_environment/action.yml b/.github/actions/setup_environment/action.yml
index 7c11084286b..a55c6213f8f 100644
--- a/.github/actions/setup_environment/action.yml
+++ b/.github/actions/setup_environment/action.yml
@@ -66,11 +66,11 @@ runs:
       id: cache-virtualenv
       with:
         requirement_files: pyproject.toml
-        # The virtualenv cache is invalidated when:
-        # - manually triggered by means of a custom cache version token
-        # - on a weekly basis
-        # - any of the integration requirements change (a hash of the
-        # __init__.py files is included in the cache key)
+     # The virtualenv cache is invalidated when:
+     # - manually triggered by means of a custom cache version token
+     # - on a weekly basis
+     # - any of the integration requirements change (a hash of the
+     # __init__.py files is included in the cache key)
         custom_cache_key_element: ${{ inputs.cache_version }}-${{steps.date.outputs.week}}-${{inputs.install_integrations}}-${{
           hashFiles('src/zenml/integrations/*/__init__.py') }}
     - uses: tespkg/actions-cache@v1
@@ -99,13 +99,13 @@ runs:
         details: The custom github runnners cache was missed and failed to restore
           the cache from minio bucket
         webhookUrl: ${{ inputs.discord_webhook }}
-    # Disabled for now because it doesn't work well with multiple parallel jobs
-    # - uses: syphar/restore-pip-download-cache@v1
-    #   with:
+     # Disabled for now because it doesn't work well with multiple parallel jobs
+     # - uses: syphar/restore-pip-download-cache@v1
+     #   with:
     #     requirement_files: 'pyproject.toml'
     #  # The pip download cache can be updated on a weekly basis as new packages
     #  # don't appear that often
-    #     custom_cache_key_element: ${{ inputs.cache_version }}-${{ inputs.python-version }}-${{steps.date.outputs.week}}
+     #     custom_cache_key_element: ${{ inputs.cache_version }}-${{ inputs.python-version }}-${{steps.date.outputs.week}}
     - name: Install Terraform (Windows)
       if: ${{ inputs.os == 'windows-latest' }}
       shell: bash
@@ -117,16 +117,6 @@ runs:
         brew tap hashicorp/tap
         brew install hashicorp/tap/terraform
     - name: Install ZenML and dependencies
-      if: steps.cache-virtualenv.outputs.cache-hit != 'true' && steps.custom-cache-pip.outputs.cache-hit
-        != 'true'
-      shell: bash
-      run: |
-        scripts/install-zenml-dev.sh --integrations ${{ inputs.install_integrations }}
-
-      # if using a cached virtualenv, just refresh the ZenML installation 
-    - name: Refresh ZenML installation
-      if: steps.cache-virtualenv.outputs.cache-hit == 'true' || steps.custom-cache-pip.outputs.cache-hit
-        == 'true'
       shell: bash
       run: |
         scripts/install-zenml-dev.sh --integrations ${{ inputs.install_integrations }}
diff --git a/scripts/install-zenml-dev.sh b/scripts/install-zenml-dev.sh
index ea8c5a6f82e..b224bcee2af 100755
--- a/scripts/install-zenml-dev.sh
+++ b/scripts/install-zenml-dev.sh
@@ -23,7 +23,12 @@ parse_args () {
 
 install_zenml() {
     # install ZenML in editable mode
-    pip install -e .[server,templates,terraform,secrets-aws,secrets-gcp,secrets-azure,secrets-hashicorp,s3fs,gcsfs,adlfs,dev,mlstacks]
+
+    touch zenml_requirements.txt
+    echo "-e .[server,templates,terraform,secrets-aws,secrets-gcp,secrets-azure,secrets-hashicorp,s3fs,gcsfs,adlfs,dev,mlstacks]" >> zenml_requirements.txt
+
+    pip install -r zenml_requirements.txt
+    rm zenml_requirements.txt
 }
 
 install_integrations() {
@@ -52,9 +57,18 @@ install_integrations() {
     # pin pyyaml>=6.0.1
     echo "" >> integration-requirements.txt
     echo "pyyaml>=6.0.1" >> integration-requirements.txt
+    echo "pyopenssl" >> integration-requirements.txt
+    echo "-e .[server,templates,terraform,secrets-aws,secrets-gcp,secrets-azure,secrets-hashicorp,s3fs,gcsfs,adlfs,dev,mlstacks]" >> integration-requirements.txt
+    cp integration-requirements.txt integration-requirements.in
+
+    pip install uv
 
-    pip install -r integration-requirements.txt
+    uv pip compile integration-requirements.in -o integration-requirements-compiled.txt
+
+    pip install -r integration-requirements-compiled.txt
     rm integration-requirements.txt
+    rm integration-requirements.in
+    rm integration-requirements-compiled.txt
 
     # install langchain separately
     zenml integration install -y langchain
@@ -64,15 +78,19 @@ install_integrations() {
 set -x
 set -e
 
+export ZENML_DEBUG=1
+export ZENML_ANALYTICS_OPT_IN=false
+
 parse_args "$@"
 
-python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+python -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel
 
 install_zenml
 
 # install integrations, if requested
 if [ "$INTEGRATIONS" = yes ]; then
     install_integrations
+
     # refresh the ZenML installation after installing integrations
     install_zenml
 fi
diff --git a/scripts/run-ci-checks.sh b/scripts/run-ci-checks.sh
index 89f066d240d..9df05f8ecae 100755
--- a/scripts/run-ci-checks.sh
+++ b/scripts/run-ci-checks.sh
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 set -e
 set -x
 
+export ZENML_DEBUG=1
+export ZENML_ANALYTICS_OPT_IN=false
+
 scripts/lint.sh
 scripts/check-spelling.sh
-scripts/docstring.sh
\ No newline at end of file
+scripts/docstring.sh