diff --git a/test/e2e/install-codeflare-sdk.sh b/test/e2e/install-codeflare-sdk.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..e90f4071c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/e2e/install-codeflare-sdk.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# go to codeflare-sdk folder and install codeflare-sdk
+cd ..
+
+# Install Poetry and configure virtualenvs
+pip install poetry
+poetry config virtualenvs.create false
+
+cd codeflare-sdk
+# Clone the CodeFlare SDK repository
+git clone --branch main https://github.com/project-codeflare/codeflare-sdk.git
+
+cd codeflare-sdk
+
+# Lock dependencies and install them
+poetry lock --no-update
+poetry install --with test,docs
+
+# Return to the workdir
+cd ../..
+cd workdir
diff --git a/test/e2e/mnist_raycluster_sdk_test.go b/test/e2e/mnist_raycluster_sdk_test.go
index 015cbfc58..be6933f67 100644
--- a/test/e2e/mnist_raycluster_sdk_test.go
+++ b/test/e2e/mnist_raycluster_sdk_test.go
@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ func TestMNISTRayClusterSDK(t *testing.T) {
 		"requirements.txt": ReadFile(test, "mnist_pip_requirements.txt"),
 		// MNIST training script
 		"mnist.py": ReadFile(test, "mnist.py"),
+		// codeflare-sdk installation script
+		"install-codeflare-sdk.sh": ReadFile(test, "install-codeflare-sdk.sh"),
 	})
 
 	// Create RBAC, retrieve token for user with limited rights
@@ -119,12 +121,16 @@ func TestMNISTRayClusterSDK(t *testing.T) {
 								{Name: "PYTHONUSERBASE", Value: "/workdir"},
 								{Name: "RAY_IMAGE", Value: GetRayImage()},
 							},
-							Command: []string{"/bin/sh", "-c", "pip install codeflare-sdk==" + GetCodeFlareSDKVersion() + " && cp /test/* . && python mnist_raycluster_sdk.py" + " " + namespace.Name},
+							Command: []string{"/bin/sh", "-c", "cp /test/* . && chmod +x install-codeflare-sdk.sh && ./install-codeflare-sdk.sh && python mnist_raycluster_sdk.py" + " " + namespace.Name},
 							VolumeMounts: []corev1.VolumeMount{
 								{
 									Name:      "test",
 									MountPath: "/test",
 								},
+								{
+									Name:      "codeflare-sdk",
+									MountPath: "/codeflare-sdk",
+								},
 								{
 									Name:      "workdir",
 									MountPath: "/workdir",
@@ -154,6 +160,12 @@ func TestMNISTRayClusterSDK(t *testing.T) {
 								},
 							},
 						},
+						{
+							Name: "codeflare-sdk",
+							VolumeSource: corev1.VolumeSource{
+								EmptyDir: &corev1.EmptyDirVolumeSource{},
+							},
+						},
 						{
 							Name: "workdir",
 							VolumeSource: corev1.VolumeSource{
diff --git a/test/e2e/support.go b/test/e2e/support.go
index e91656880..8fc862957 100644
--- a/test/e2e/support.go
+++ b/test/e2e/support.go
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/project-codeflare/codeflare-common/support"
 )
 
-//go:embed *.py *.txt
+//go:embed *.py *.txt *.sh
 var files embed.FS
 
 func ReadFile(t support.Test, fileName string) []byte {