diff --git a/compose.yaml b/compose.yaml
index 8fd3e0d9..e2e5b54a 100644
--- a/compose.yaml
+++ b/compose.yaml
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ services:
     environment:
       - ANSIBLE_DISPLAY_SKIPPED_HOSTS=${ANSIBLE_DISPLAY_SKIPPED_HOSTS:-false}
       - ANSIBLE_INVENTORY=inventories/partition.yaml,clab-mini-lab/ansible-inventory.yml
+      - KUBECONFIG=/mini-lab/.kubeconfig
+      - K8S_AUTH_KUBECONFIG=/mini-lab/.kubeconfig
       - CI=${CI}
       - DOCKER_HUB_USER=${DOCKER_HUB_USER}
       - DOCKER_HUB_TOKEN=${DOCKER_HUB_TOKEN}
diff --git a/deploy_partition.yaml b/deploy_partition.yaml
index 2ad4de4d..12d87b39 100644
--- a/deploy_partition.yaml
+++ b/deploy_partition.yaml
@@ -91,6 +91,33 @@
         pull: true
       failed_when: false
 
+- name: Install python client and generate deployment token
+  hosts: localhost
+  connection: local
+  gather_facts: false
+  pre_tasks:
+    - name: Wait until the metal-apiserver is running
+      kubernetes.core.k8s_info:
+        kind: Deployment
+        name: metal-apiserver
+        namespace: "{{ metal_control_plane_namespace }}"
+        wait: true
+        wait_sleep: 1
+        wait_timeout: 600
+    - name: Wait until the admin_editor_token secret exists
+      kubernetes.core.k8s_info:
+        kind: Secret
+        name: "{{ metal_deployment_token_secret_name }}"
+        namespace: "{{ metal_deployment_token_secret_namespace }}"
+        wait: true
+        wait_sleep: 1
+        wait_timeout: 600
+  roles:
+    - name: ansible-common
+      tags: always
+    - name: metal-roles/common/roles/metal-v2-client
+    - name: metal-roles/common/roles/metal-deployment-token
+
 - name: Deploy pixiecore on leaf01
   hosts: leaf01
   become: true
@@ -99,6 +126,10 @@
       tags: always
     - name: metal-roles/partition/roles/pixiecore
       tags: pixiecore
+    - name: metal-roles/common/roles/metal-deployment-token
+      tags: image-cache
+    - name: metal-roles/partition/roles/image-cache
+      tags: image-cache
 
 - name: Deploy monitoring on leaf01
   hosts: leaf01
diff --git a/inventories/group_vars/all/release_vector.yaml b/inventories/group_vars/all/release_vector.yaml
index 0fba64d3..49b02d04 100644
--- a/inventories/group_vars/all/release_vector.yaml
+++ b/inventories/group_vars/all/release_vector.yaml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ metal_stack_release_vectors:
 # metal_api_image_name:
 # metal_api_image_tag:
 # metal_apiserver_image_name:
-# metal_apiserver_image_tag:
+metal_apiserver_image_tag: v0.8.1
 # metal_tenant_apiserver_image_name:
 # metal_tenant_apiserver_image_tag:
 # metal_metalctl_image_name:
@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@ metal_stack_release_vectors:
 # headscale_db_image_name: postgres
 # sonic_configdb_utils_image_name:
 # sonic_configdb_utils_image_tag:
+image_cache_sync_image_name: ghcr.io/metal-stack/metal-image-cache-sync
+image_cache_sync_image_tag: pr-21-migrate-to-metal-apiserver
+metal_api_version: v0.3.1
 # ...
 #
 
@@ -38,8 +41,8 @@ metal_stack_release_vectors:
 ##
 
 # ansible_common_version:
-# metal_roles_version: pr-<pr-number-and-title>
-# metal_ansible_modules_version:
+metal_roles_version: pr-453-migrate-metal-image-cache-sync-to-metal-apiserver
+metal_ansible_modules_version: v2-updates
 
 ##
 ## helm charts
diff --git a/inventories/group_vars/control_plane/metal.yml b/inventories/group_vars/control_plane/metal.yml
index 40db02a6..6ddabf57 100644
--- a/inventories/group_vars/control_plane/metal.yml
+++ b/inventories/group_vars/control_plane/metal.yml
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ metal_apiserver_url: http://v2.{{ metal_control_plane_ingress_dns }}:8080
 
 metal_apiserver_oidc_discovery_url: https://auth.{{ metal_control_plane_ingress_dns }}:4443/.well-known/openid-configuration
 metal_apiserver_oidc_end_session_url: "https://auth.{{ metal_control_plane_ingress_dns }}:4443/oidc/v1/end_session"
+metal_apiserver_session_secret: long-secret
 
 metal_apiserver_secure_cookie: false
 
diff --git a/inventories/group_vars/partition/image_cache.yaml b/inventories/group_vars/partition/image_cache.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ab66b26c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/inventories/group_vars/partition/image_cache.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+metal_control_plane_ingress_dns: 172.17.0.1.nip.io
+metal_apiserver_url: http://v2.{{ metal_control_plane_ingress_dns }}:8080
+image_cache_sync_metal_apiserver_url: "{{ metal_apiserver_url }}"
+image_cache_sync_token_expiration: 20m
+
+image_cache_sync_excludes:
+  - "/pull_requests/"
+  - "/stable/"
+image_cache_sync_expiration_grace_period: 100
diff --git a/inventories/partition.yaml b/inventories/partition.yaml
index fb3aa8a3..c94ed694 100644
--- a/inventories/partition.yaml
+++ b/inventories/partition.yaml
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ partition:
   hosts:
     localhost:
       ansible_python_interpreter: "{{ ansible_playbook_python }}"
+      ansible_connection: local
   children:
     dell_sonic:
     leaves: