diff --git a/jobs/mini-e2e.yaml b/jobs/mini-e2e.yaml
index c4a5718a051..7bcef69cbad 100644
--- a/jobs/mini-e2e.yaml
+++ b/jobs/mini-e2e.yaml
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
     jobs:
       - 'mini-e2e_k8s-{k8s_version}'
       - 'mini-e2e-helm_k8s-{k8s_version}'
+      - 'mini-e2e-operator_k8s-{k8s_version}'
 
 - job-template:
     name: 'mini-e2e_k8s-{k8s_version}'
@@ -115,3 +116,49 @@
           org-list:
             - ceph
           allow-whitelist-orgs-as-admins: true
+
+- job-template:
+    name: 'mini-e2e-operator_k8s-{k8s_version}'
+    project-type: pipeline
+    concurrent: true
+    properties:
+      - github:
+          url: https://github.com/ceph/ceph-csi
+      - build-discarder:
+          days-to-keep: 7
+          artifact-days-to-keep: 7
+    # default variables
+    k8s_version: '<unset>'
+    # generated parameters for the job (used in the groovy script)
+    parameters:
+      - string:
+          name: k8s_version
+          default: '{k8s_version}'
+          description: Kubernetes version to deploy in the test cluster.
+      - string:
+          name: test_type
+          default: ''
+          description: Mentions whether tests run for rbd/cephfs/nfs.
+
+    pipeline-scm:
+      scm:
+        - git:
+            name: origin
+            url: https://github.com/ceph/ceph-csi
+            branches:
+              - ci/centos
+      script-path: mini-e2e-operator.groovy
+      lightweight-checkout: true
+    triggers:
+      - github-pull-request:
+          status-url: $RUN_DISPLAY_URL
+          status-context: 'ci/centos/mini-e2e-operator/k8s-{k8s_version}'
+          # yamllint disable-line rule:line-length
+          trigger-phrase: '/(re)?test ci/centos/mini-e2e-operator(/k8s-{k8s_version}(/test_type-{test_type})?)?'
+          only-trigger-phrase: '{only_run_on_request}'
+          permit-all: true
+          github-hooks: true
+          black-list-target-branches:
+            - ci/centos
+          org-list:
+            - ceph
diff --git a/mini-e2e-operator.groovy b/mini-e2e-operator.groovy
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ad366f07993
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mini-e2e-operator.groovy
@@ -0,0 +1,234 @@
+def cico_retries = 16
+def cico_retry_interval = 60
+def duffy_pool = 'virt-ec2-t2-centos-9s-x86_64'
+def ci_git_repo = 'https://github.com/ceph/ceph-csi'
+def ci_git_branch = 'ci/centos'
+def git_repo = 'https://github.com/ceph/ceph-csi'
+def ref = "devel"
+def git_since = 'devel'
+def skip_e2e = 0
+def doc_change = 0
+def k8s_release = 'latest'
+def ci_registry = 'registry-ceph-csi.apps.ocp.cloud.ci.centos.org'
+def failure = null
+
+def ssh(cmd) {
+	sh "ssh -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no root@${CICO_NODE} '${cmd}'"
+}
+
+def podman_login(registry, username, passwd) {
+	ssh "podman login --authfile=~/.podman-auth.json --username='${username}' --password='${passwd}' ${registry}"
+}
+
+def create_duffy_config() {
+	writeFile(
+		file: '/home/jenkins/.config/duffy',
+		text: """client:
+			|  url: https://duffy.ci.centos.org/api/v1
+			|  auth:
+			|    name: ceph-csi
+			|    key: ${env.CICO_API_KEY}
+			|""".stripMargin()
+	)
+}
+
+// podman_pull pulls image from the source (CI internal) registry, and tags it
+// as unqualified image name and into the destination registry. This prevents
+// pulling from the destination registry.
+//
+// Images need to be pre-pushed into the source registry, though.
+def podman_pull(source, destination, image) {
+	ssh "podman pull --authfile=~/.podman-auth.json ${source}/${image} && podman tag ${source}/${image} ${image} ${destination}/${image}"
+}
+
+node('cico-workspace') {
+	stage('checkout ci repository') {
+		git url: "${ci_git_repo}",
+			branch: "${ci_git_branch}",
+			changelog: false
+	}
+
+	// "github-api-token" is a secret text credential configured in Jenkins
+	withCredentials([string(credentialsId: 'github-api-token', variable: 'GITHUB_API_TOKEN')]) {
+		stage('skip ci/skip/e2e label') {
+			if (params.ghprbPullId == null) {
+				skip_e2e = 1
+				return
+			}
+
+			skip_e2e = sh(
+				script: "./scripts/get_github_labels.py --id=${ghprbPullId} --has-label=ci/skip/e2e",
+				returnStatus: true)
+		}
+
+		stage("detect k8s-${k8s_version} patch release") {
+			k8s_release = sh(
+				script: "./scripts/get_patch_release.py --version=${k8s_version}",
+				returnStdout: true).trim()
+			echo "detected Kubernetes patch release: ${k8s_release}"
+		}
+	}
+
+	// if skip_e2e returned 0, do not run full tests
+	if (skip_e2e == 0) {
+		currentBuild.result = 'SUCCESS'
+		return
+	}
+
+	stage('checkout PR') {
+		if (params.ghprbPullId != null) {
+			ref = "pull/${ghprbPullId}/merge"
+		}
+		if (params.ghprbTargetBranch != null) {
+			git_since = "${ghprbTargetBranch}"
+		}
+
+		sh "git clone --depth=1 --branch='${git_since}' '${git_repo}' ~/build/ceph-csi"
+		if (ref != git_since) {
+			sh "cd ~/build/ceph-csi && git fetch origin ${ref} && git checkout -b ${ref} FETCH_HEAD"
+		}
+	}
+
+	stage('check doc-only change') {
+		doc_change = sh(
+			script: "cd ~/build/ceph-csi && \${OLDPWD}/scripts/skip-doc-change.sh origin/${git_since}",
+			returnStatus: true)
+	}
+	// if doc_change (return value of skip-doc-change.sh is 1, do not run the other stages
+	if (doc_change == 1 && ref != git_since) {
+		currentBuild.result = 'SUCCESS'
+		return
+	}
+
+	stage('reserve bare-metal machine') {
+		create_duffy_config()
+
+		def firstAttempt = true
+		retry(30) {
+			if (!firstAttempt) {
+				sleep(time: 5, unit: "MINUTES")
+			}
+			firstAttempt = false
+			def cmd = sh(
+				script: "duffy client request-session pool=${duffy_pool},quantity=1",
+				returnStdout: true
+			)
+			def duffy = new groovy.json.JsonSlurper().parseText(cmd)
+			env.CICO_NODE = "${duffy.session.nodes[0].hostname}"
+			env.CICO_SSID = "${duffy.session.id}"
+		}
+	}
+
+	try {
+		stage('prepare bare-metal machine') {
+			if (params.ghprbPullId != null) {
+				ref = "pull/${ghprbPullId}/merge"
+			}
+			sh 'scp -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no ./prepare.sh ./single-node-k8s.sh ./podman2minikube.sh ./system-status.sh root@${CICO_NODE}:'
+			ssh "./prepare.sh --workdir=/opt/build/go/src/github.com/ceph/ceph-csi --gitrepo=${git_repo} --ref=${ref}"
+		}
+		stage('pull base container images') {
+			def base_image = sh(
+				script: 'ssh -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no root@${CICO_NODE} \'source /opt/build/go/src/github.com/ceph/ceph-csi/build.env && echo ${BASE_IMAGE}\'',
+				returnStdout: true
+			).trim()
+			def q_io_regex = ~"^quay.io/"
+
+			withCredentials([usernamePassword(credentialsId: 'container-registry-auth', usernameVariable: 'CREDS_USER', passwordVariable: 'CREDS_PASSWD')]) {
+				podman_login(ci_registry, '$CREDS_USER', '$CREDS_PASSWD')
+			}
+
+			// base_image is like quay.io/ceph/ceph:v19, strip "quay.io/"
+			podman_pull(ci_registry, "quay.io", "${base_image}" - q_io_regex)
+			// cephcsi:devel is used with 'make containerized-build'
+			podman_pull(ci_registry, ci_registry, "ceph-csi:devel")
+		}
+		stage('build artifacts') {
+			// build container image
+			ssh 'cd /opt/build/go/src/github.com/ceph/ceph-csi && make image-cephcsi GOARCH=amd64 CONTAINER_CMD=podman'
+			// build e2e.test executable
+			ssh "cd /opt/build/go/src/github.com/ceph/ceph-csi && make containerized-build CONTAINER_CMD=podman TARGET=e2e.test ENV_CSI_IMAGE_NAME=${ci_registry}/ceph-csi USE_PULLED_IMAGE=yes"
+		}
+		stage("deploy k8s-${k8s_version} and rook") {
+			def rook_version = sh(
+				script: 'ssh -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no root@${CICO_NODE} \'source /opt/build/go/src/github.com/ceph/ceph-csi/build.env && echo ${ROOK_VERSION}\'',
+				returnStdout: true
+			).trim()
+
+			if (rook_version != '') {
+				// single-node-k8s.sh pushes the image into minikube
+				podman_pull(ci_registry, "docker.io", "rook/ceph:${rook_version}")
+			}
+
+			def rook_ceph_cluster_image = sh(
+				script: 'ssh -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no root@${CICO_NODE} \'source /opt/build/go/src/github.com/ceph/ceph-csi/build.env && echo ${ROOK_CEPH_CLUSTER_IMAGE}\'',
+				returnStdout: true
+			).trim()
+			def q_io_regex = ~"^quay.io/"
+
+			if (rook_ceph_cluster_image != '') {
+				// single-node-k8s.sh pushes the image into minikube
+				podman_pull(ci_registry, "quay.io", rook_ceph_cluster_image - q_io_regex)
+			}
+
+			timeout(time: 30, unit: 'MINUTES') {
+				ssh "./single-node-k8s.sh --k8s-version=${k8s_release}"
+			}
+
+			// vault:latest,1.8.5 and nginx:latest are used by the e2e tests
+			podman_pull(ci_registry, "docker.io", "library/vault:latest")
+			ssh "./podman2minikube.sh docker.io/library/vault:latest"
+			podman_pull(ci_registry, "docker.io", "library/nginx:latest")
+			ssh "./podman2minikube.sh docker.io/library/nginx:latest"
+			podman_pull(ci_registry, "docker.io", "library/vault:1.8.5")
+			ssh "./podman2minikube.sh docker.io/library/vault:1.8.5"
+		}
+		stage('deploy ceph-csi through operator') {
+			def operator_version = sh(
+				script: 'ssh -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no root@${CICO_NODE} \'source /opt/build/go/src/github.com/ceph/ceph-csi/build.env && echo ${CEPH_CSI_OPERATOR_VERSION}\'',
+				returnStdout: true
+			).trim()
+
+			podman_pull(ci_registry, "quay.io", "cephcsi/ceph-csi-operator:${operator_version}")
+			ssh "./podman2minikube.sh quay.io/cephcsi/ceph-csi-operator:${operator_version}"
+
+			timeout(time: 30, unit: 'MINUTES') {
+				ssh 'cd /opt/build/go/src/github.com/ceph/ceph-csi && ./scripts/deploy-ceph-csi-operator.sh deploy'
+			}
+		}
+		stage('run e2e') {
+			timeout(time: 120, unit: 'MINUTES') {
+				def t_type = ""
+				if ("${test_type}" == "cephfs"){
+					t_type = "--test-cephfs=true --test-rbd=false --test-nfs=false"
+				} else if ("${test_type}" == "rbd"){
+					t_type = "--test-rbd=true --test-cephfs=false --test-nfs=false"
+				} else if ("${test_type}" == "nfs"){
+					t_type = "--test-nfs=true --test-cephfs=false --test-rbd=false"
+				} else {
+					t_type = "--test-rbd=true --test-cephfs=true --test-nfs=true"
+				}
+				deploy_param = "--deploy-cephfs=false --deploy-rbd=false --deploy-nfs=false --operator-deployment=true"
+				ssh "cd /opt/build/go/src/github.com/ceph/ceph-csi && make run-e2e E2E_ARGS=\"--delete-namespace-on-failure=false ${t_type} ${deploy_param}\""
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	catch (err) {
+		failure = err
+
+		stage('log system status') {
+			ssh './system-status.sh'
+		}
+	}
+
+	finally {
+		stage('return bare-metal machine') {
+			sh 'duffy client retire-session ${CICO_SSID}'
+		}
+
+		if (failure) {
+			throw failure
+		}
+	}
+}