diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
index c7a19c02629f..728ac4b37e1f 100644
--- a/.dockerignore
+++ b/.dockerignore
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-.circleci
 .github
 .gitignore
 .gitmodules
diff --git a/.github/workflows/check.yaml b/.github/workflows/check.yaml
index 36e13cafa105..d11761bfaa67 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/check.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/check.yaml
@@ -34,3 +34,15 @@ jobs:
           TITLE: ${{ github.event.pull_request.title }}
         run: |
           commitlint --config .github/commitlint.config.js --edit=<(echo "${TITLE}")
+<<<<<<< HEAD
+=======
+      - name: Maybe add backport label
+        if: github.event.action == 'synchronize' && false # disable until https://github.com/kumahq/kuma/issues/9482
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
+          PREDEFINED_GLOBS: ".github/**/*,Makefile,mk/**/*,tools/**/*,.golangci.yml,.kube-linter.yaml"
+          LABEL_TO_ADD: backport
+          NO_BACKPORT_AUTOLABEL: no-backport-autolabel
+        run: |
+          tools/ci/needs_backporting.sh "${{ github.repository }}" "${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}" "origin/${{ github.base_ref }}" "HEAD" "$PREDEFINED_GLOBS" "$LABEL_TO_ADD" "$NO_BACKPORT_AUTOLABEL"
+>>>>>>> e780588b9 (ci(circleci): cleanup circleci configuration and scripts (#10908))
diff --git a/.github/workflows/e2e.yaml b/.github/workflows/e2e.yaml
index 978a2647741e..0e5c51e6bc65 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/e2e.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/e2e.yaml
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ jobs:
       matrix:
         parallelRunnerId: ${{ fromJSON((fromJSON(inputs.matrix).parallelism == '3' && '[0, 1, 2]') || '[0]') }}
     steps:
+<<<<<<< HEAD:.github/workflows/e2e.yaml
       - name: "Print parameters"
         id: eval-params
         run: |
@@ -55,17 +56,24 @@ jobs:
       - name: "GitHub Actions: set up cache"
         if: steps.eval-params.outputs.run-type == 'github'
         uses: actions/cache@13aacd865c20de90d75de3b17ebe84f7a17d57d2 # v4.0.0
+=======
+      - uses: actions/checkout@692973e3d937129bcbf40652eb9f2f61becf3332 # v4.1.7
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+      - uses: actions/setup-go@0a12ed9d6a96ab950c8f026ed9f722fe0da7ef32 # v5.0.2
+        with:
+          go-version-file: go.mod
+      - uses: actions/cache@0c45773b623bea8c8e75f6c82b208c3cf94ea4f9 # v4.0.2
+>>>>>>> e780588b9 (ci(circleci): cleanup circleci configuration and scripts (#10908)):.github/workflows/_e2e.yaml
         with:
           path: |
             ${{ env.CI_TOOLS_DIR }}
           key: ${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-devtools-${{ hashFiles('mk/dependencies/deps.lock') }}
           restore-keys: |
             ${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-devtools
-      - if: steps.eval-params.outputs.run-type == 'github'
-        run: |
+      - run: |
           make dev/tools
-      - name: "Github Actions: Free up disk space for the Runner"
-        if: steps.eval-params.outputs.run-type == 'github'
+      - name: "Free up disk space for the Runner"
         run: |
           echo "Disk usage before cleanup"
           sudo df -h
@@ -75,25 +83,17 @@ jobs:
           docker system prune --all -f
           echo "Disk usage after cleanup"
           sudo df -h
-      - name: "Github Actions: build"
-        if: steps.eval-params.outputs.run-type == 'github'
-        run: |
+      - run: |
           make build
-      - name: "Github Actions: distributions"
-        if: steps.eval-params.outputs.run-type == 'github'
-        run: |
+      - run: |
           make -j build/distributions
-      - name: "Github Actions: images"
-        if: steps.eval-params.outputs.run-type == 'github'
-        run: |
+      - run: |
           make -j images
           make -j docker/save
-      - name: "GitHub Actions: setup helm"
-        if: steps.eval-params.outputs.run-type == 'github'
-        run: |
+      - run: |
           make dev/set-kuma-helm-repo
-      - name: "GitHub Actions: enable ipv6 for docker"
-        if: ${{ steps.eval-params.outputs.run-type == 'github' && env.E2E_PARAM_K8S_VERSION == 'kindIpv6' }}
+      - name: "Enable ipv6 for docker"
+        if: ${{ env.E2E_PARAM_K8S_VERSION == 'kindIpv6' }}
         run: |
           cat <<'EOF' | sudo tee /etc/docker/daemon.json
           {
@@ -104,8 +104,7 @@ jobs:
           }
           EOF
           sudo service docker restart
-      - name: "GitHub Actions: run E2E tests"
-        if: steps.eval-params.outputs.run-type == 'github'
+      - name: "Run E2E tests"
         run: |
           if [[ "${{ env.E2E_PARAM_K8S_VERSION }}" == "kindIpv6" ]]; then
             export IPV6=true
@@ -137,6 +136,7 @@ jobs:
             target="test/e2e"
           fi
           make ${MAKE_PARAMETERS} CI=true "${target}"
+<<<<<<< HEAD:.github/workflows/e2e.yaml
       - name: "CircleCI: make circleci parameters"
         if: steps.eval-params.outputs.run-type == 'circleci'
         id: circleci-gen-params
@@ -325,3 +325,13 @@ jobs:
           }
 
           request POST https://circleci.com/api/v2/workflow/${{ steps.circle-ci-trigger.outputs.workflow_id }}/cancel
+=======
+      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@0b2256b8c012f0828dc542b3febcab082c67f72b # v4.3.4
+        if: always()
+        with:
+          name: e2e-debug-${{ env.E2E_PARAM_TARGET }}
+          if-no-files-found: ignore
+          path: |
+            /tmp/e2e-debug/
+          retention-days: ${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request' && 1 || 30 }}
+>>>>>>> e780588b9 (ci(circleci): cleanup circleci configuration and scripts (#10908)):.github/workflows/_e2e.yaml
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 568591d64b39..f7a41c8b6068 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 **Builds**
 
-[![CircleCI master](https://img.shields.io/circleci/build/github/kumahq/kuma/master?label=master)](https://circleci.com/gh/kumahq/kuma/tree/master)
+![GitHub Actions master](https://github.com/kumahq/kuma/actions/workflows/build-test-distribute.yaml/badge.svg?branch=master)
 
 **Code quality**
 
diff --git a/mk/check.mk b/mk/check.mk
index 33202eb644aa..19c111db5a1d 100644
--- a/mk/check.mk
+++ b/mk/check.mk
@@ -32,9 +32,14 @@ golangci-lint-fmt:
 
 .PHONY: fmt/ci
 fmt/ci:
+<<<<<<< HEAD
 	$(CI_TOOLS_BIN_DIR)/yq -i '.parameters.go_version.default = "$(GO_VERSION)" | .parameters.first_k8s_version.default = "$(K8S_MIN_VERSION)" | .parameters.last_k8s_version.default = "$(K8S_MAX_VERSION)"' .circleci/config.yml
 	$(CI_TOOLS_BIN_DIR)/yq -i '.env.K8S_MIN_VERSION = "$(K8S_MIN_VERSION)" | .env.K8S_MAX_VERSION = "$(K8S_MAX_VERSION)"' .github/workflows/"$(ACTION_PREFIX)"build-test-distribute.yaml
 	find .github/workflows -name '*ml' | xargs -n 1 $(CI_TOOLS_BIN_DIR)/yq -i '(.jobs.* | select(. | has("steps")) | .steps[] | select(.uses == "golangci/golangci-lint-action*") | .with.version) |= "$(GOLANGCI_LINT_VERSION)"'
+=======
+	$(YQ) -i '.env.K8S_MIN_VERSION = "$(K8S_MIN_VERSION)" | .env.K8S_MAX_VERSION = "$(K8S_MAX_VERSION)"' .github/workflows/"$(ACTION_PREFIX)"_test.yaml
+	grep -r "golangci/golangci-lint-action" .github/workflows --include \*ml | cut -d ':' -f 1 | xargs -n 1 $(YQ) -i '(.jobs.* | select(. | has("steps")) | .steps[] | select(.uses == "golangci/golangci-lint-action*") | .with.version) |= "$(GOLANGCI_LINT_VERSION)"'
+>>>>>>> e780588b9 (ci(circleci): cleanup circleci configuration and scripts (#10908))
 
 .PHONY: helm-lint
 helm-lint:
diff --git a/test/e2e/README.md b/test/e2e/README.md
index ec879bd1dd6b..552351e447d0 100644
--- a/test/e2e/README.md
+++ b/test/e2e/README.md
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ Executing those tests is very expensive, it is the longest job on the CI.
 Adding the tests here potentially slows down the velocity of all contributors.
 Please consider writing the test in `e2e_env` directory instead, where all the tests are parallelized on one Kuma deployment.
 
-On CircleCI, all the tests are parallelized into multiple VMs. You can control on which VM the test will run using `job-X` label. 
-All the tests requires `job-X` label, otherwise CircleCI won't run them.
+All the tests are parallelized into multiple VMs. You can control on which VM the test will run using `job-X` label. 
+All the tests require `job-X` label, otherwise they won't be run.
 
 ## Reasons to write the test in this package over `e2e_env`
 
diff --git a/tools/ci/update-vulnerable-dependencies/update-vulnerable-dependencies.sh b/tools/ci/update-vulnerable-dependencies/update-vulnerable-dependencies.sh
index fd02f9442f50..9453c3bc2855 100755
--- a/tools/ci/update-vulnerable-dependencies/update-vulnerable-dependencies.sh
+++ b/tools/ci/update-vulnerable-dependencies/update-vulnerable-dependencies.sh
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ for dep in $(osv-scanner "$OSV_SCANNER_ADDITIONAL_OPTS" --lockfile=go.mod --json
     echo "Updating $package to $fixVersion"
 
     if [[ "$package" == "stdlib" ]]; then
-      yq -i e ".parameters.go_version.default = \"$fixVersion\"" .circleci/config.yml
       go mod edit -go="$fixVersion"
     else
       go get -u "$package"@v"$fixVersion"