diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/deploy.yml b/.gitea/workflows/deploy.yml
index 25c5d3a..4fee677 100644
--- a/.gitea/workflows/deploy.yml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/deploy.yml
@@ -947,6 +947,8 @@ jobs:
           kubectl -n cattle-system wait --for=condition=Ready certificate/tls-rancher-ingress --timeout=900s
 
       - name: Seed observability runtime images
+        env:
+          KUBECONFIG: outputs/kubeconfig
         run: |
           set -euo pipefail