diff --git a/WIP-CHANGELOG.md b/WIP-CHANGELOG.md
index e69de29bb2..d8b449d2f6 100644
--- a/WIP-CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/WIP-CHANGELOG.md
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+### Changed
+
+- The dry-run and appy command now checks against the state of the cluster while ran.
diff --git a/bin/dry-run.bash b/bin/dry-run.bash
index db6d9672bb..361d690750 100755
--- a/bin/dry-run.bash
+++ b/bin/dry-run.bash
@@ -21,13 +21,13 @@ if [[ $1 == "sc" ]]; then
   log_info "Running helmfile diff on the service cluster"
   : "${config[config_file_sc]:?Missing service cluster config file}"
 
-  "${here}/ops.bash" helmfile sc diff
+  "${here}/ops.bash" helmfile sc template | kubectl diff -f -
 
 elif [[ $1 == "wc" ]]; then
   log_info "Running helmfile diff on the workload cluster"
   : "${config[config_file_wc]:?Missing workload cluster config file}"
 
-  "${here}/ops.bash" helmfile wc diff
+  "${here}/ops.bash" helmfile wc template | kubectl diff -f -
 else
   log_error "ERROR: unsupported option for dry-run. Supported options are <wc|sc>"
   exit 1
diff --git a/scripts/deploy-sc.sh b/scripts/deploy-sc.sh
index 0020327905..b3926cd02b 100755
--- a/scripts/deploy-sc.sh
+++ b/scripts/deploy-sc.sh
@@ -34,6 +34,6 @@ echo "Installing helm charts" >&2
 cd "${SCRIPTS_PATH}/../helmfile"
 declare -a helmfile_opt_flags
 [[ -n "$INTERACTIVE" ]] && helmfile_opt_flags+=("$INTERACTIVE")
-helmfile -f . -e service_cluster "${helmfile_opt_flags[@]}" apply --suppress-diff
+helmfile -f . -e service_cluster "${helmfile_opt_flags[@]}" sync --suppress-diff
 
 echo "Deploy sc completed!" >&2
diff --git a/scripts/deploy-wc.sh b/scripts/deploy-wc.sh
index 63338270f9..e52d1889ad 100755
--- a/scripts/deploy-wc.sh
+++ b/scripts/deploy-wc.sh
@@ -34,6 +34,6 @@ echo "Installing helm charts" >&2
 cd "${SCRIPTS_PATH}/../helmfile"
 declare -a helmfile_opt_flags
 [[ -n "$INTERACTIVE" ]] && helmfile_opt_flags+=("$INTERACTIVE")
-helmfile -f . -e workload_cluster "${helmfile_opt_flags[@]}" apply --suppress-diff
+helmfile -f . -e workload_cluster "${helmfile_opt_flags[@]}" sync  --suppress-diff
 
 echo "Deploy wc completed!" >&2