diff --git a/controllers/libs/base/static/images.yaml b/controllers/libs/base/static/images.yaml
index bb62475..2bef19c 100644
--- a/controllers/libs/base/static/images.yaml
+++ b/controllers/libs/base/static/images.yaml
@@ -4,52 +4,52 @@
 images:
     - name: zuul-scheduler
       container: quay.io/software-factory/zuul-scheduler
-      version: 10.1.0-2
-      source: https://softwarefactory-project.io/cgit/containers/tree/images-sf/master/containers/rendered/zuul-scheduler.container?id=0183950d3e176bb0d7e43731e6de0022f1283e99
+      version: 10.1.0-3
+      source: https://softwarefactory-project.io/cgit/containers/tree/images-sf/master/containers/rendered/zuul-scheduler.container?id=4ba66ab24871080d983bc9b24fe4b74a2244d50f
     - name: zuul-executor
       container: quay.io/software-factory/zuul-executor
-      version: 10.1.0-2
-      source: https://softwarefactory-project.io/cgit/containers/tree/images-sf/master/containers/rendered/zuul-executor.container?id=0183950d3e176bb0d7e43731e6de0022f1283e99
+      version: 10.1.0-3
+      source: https://softwarefactory-project.io/cgit/containers/tree/images-sf/master/containers/rendered/zuul-executor.container?id=4ba66ab24871080d983bc9b24fe4b74a2244d50f
     - name: zuul-merger
       container: quay.io/software-factory/zuul-merger
-      version: 10.1.0-2
-      source: https://softwarefactory-project.io/cgit/containers/tree/images-sf/master/containers/rendered/zuul-merger.container?id=0183950d3e176bb0d7e43731e6de0022f1283e99
+      version: 10.1.0-3
+      source: https://softwarefactory-project.io/cgit/containers/tree/images-sf/master/containers/rendered/zuul-merger.container?id=4ba66ab24871080d983bc9b24fe4b74a2244d50f
     - name: zuul-web
       container: quay.io/software-factory/zuul-web
-      version: 10.1.0-2
-      source: https://softwarefactory-project.io/cgit/containers/tree/images-sf/master/containers/rendered/zuul-web.container?id=0183950d3e176bb0d7e43731e6de0022f1283e99
+      version: 10.1.0-3
+      source: https://softwarefactory-project.io/cgit/containers/tree/images-sf/master/containers/rendered/zuul-web.container?id=4ba66ab24871080d983bc9b24fe4b74a2244d50f
     - name: nodepool-launcher
       container: quay.io/software-factory/nodepool-launcher
       version: 10.0.0-3
-      source: https://softwarefactory-project.io/cgit/containers/tree/images-sf/master/containers/rendered/nodepool-launcher.container?id=0183950d3e176bb0d7e43731e6de0022f1283e99
+      source: https://softwarefactory-project.io/cgit/containers/tree/images-sf/master/containers/rendered/nodepool-launcher.container?id=4ba66ab24871080d983bc9b24fe4b74a2244d50f
     - name: nodepool-builder
       container: quay.io/software-factory/nodepool-builder
       version: 10.0.0-3
-      source: https://softwarefactory-project.io/cgit/containers/tree/images-sf/master/containers/rendered/nodepool-builder.container?id=0183950d3e176bb0d7e43731e6de0022f1283e99
+      source: https://softwarefactory-project.io/cgit/containers/tree/images-sf/master/containers/rendered/nodepool-builder.container?id=4ba66ab24871080d983bc9b24fe4b74a2244d50f
     - name: zookeeper
       container: quay.io/software-factory/zookeeper
       version: 3.8.4-2
-      source: https://softwarefactory-project.io/cgit/containers/tree/images-sf/master/containers/rendered/zookeeper.container?id=0183950d3e176bb0d7e43731e6de0022f1283e99
+      source: https://softwarefactory-project.io/cgit/containers/tree/images-sf/master/containers/rendered/zookeeper.container?id=4ba66ab24871080d983bc9b24fe4b74a2244d50f
     - name: git-server
       container: quay.io/software-factory/git-deamon
       version: 2.39.3-1
-      source: https://softwarefactory-project.io/cgit/containers/tree/images-sf/master/containers/rendered/git-daemon.container?id=0183950d3e176bb0d7e43731e6de0022f1283e99
+      source: https://softwarefactory-project.io/cgit/containers/tree/images-sf/master/containers/rendered/git-daemon.container?id=4ba66ab24871080d983bc9b24fe4b74a2244d50f
     - name: sshd
       container: quay.io/software-factory/sshd
       version: 0.1-4
-      source: https://softwarefactory-project.io/cgit/containers/tree/images-sf/master/containers/rendered/sshd.container?id=0183950d3e176bb0d7e43731e6de0022f1283e99
+      source: https://softwarefactory-project.io/cgit/containers/tree/images-sf/master/containers/rendered/sshd.container?id=4ba66ab24871080d983bc9b24fe4b74a2244d50f
     - name: purgelogs
       container: quay.io/software-factory/purgelogs
       version: 0.2.3-5
-      source: https://softwarefactory-project.io/cgit/containers/tree/images-sf/master/containers/rendered/purgelogs.container?id=0183950d3e176bb0d7e43731e6de0022f1283e99
+      source: https://softwarefactory-project.io/cgit/containers/tree/images-sf/master/containers/rendered/purgelogs.container?id=4ba66ab24871080d983bc9b24fe4b74a2244d50f
     - name: mariadb
       container: quay.io/software-factory/mariadb
       version: 11.4-ubi9-1
-      source: https://softwarefactory-project.io/cgit/containers/tree/images-sf/master/containers/rendered/mariadb.container?id=0183950d3e176bb0d7e43731e6de0022f1283e99
+      source: https://softwarefactory-project.io/cgit/containers/tree/images-sf/master/containers/rendered/mariadb.container?id=4ba66ab24871080d983bc9b24fe4b74a2244d50f
     - name: busybox
       container: quay.io/software-factory/sf-op-busybox
       version: 1.5-3
-      source: https://softwarefactory-project.io/cgit/containers/tree/images-sf/master/containers/rendered/sf-op-busybox.container?id=0183950d3e176bb0d7e43731e6de0022f1283e99
+      source: https://softwarefactory-project.io/cgit/containers/tree/images-sf/master/containers/rendered/sf-op-busybox.container?id=4ba66ab24871080d983bc9b24fe4b74a2244d50f
     - name: httpd
       container: registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/httpd-24
       version: 1-284.1696531168
diff --git a/doc/reference/CHANGELOG.md b/doc/reference/CHANGELOG.md
index 6e39b77..ac52a35 100644
--- a/doc/reference/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/doc/reference/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 ## [in development]
 
 ### Added
+
+- Capability to simply run privileged zuul-client command from any zuul pods without providing an auth token
+
 ### Changed
 ### Deprecated
 ### Removed
diff --git a/roles/health-check/zuul-client-from-zuul-pod/tasks/main.yaml b/roles/health-check/zuul-client-from-zuul-pod/tasks/main.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..df9fa0c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/roles/health-check/zuul-client-from-zuul-pod/tasks/main.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+# Note that thanks to https://review.opendev.org/c/zuul/zuul-client/+/837908 we can
+# run zuul-client from the zuul-scheduler (works from any zuul pods) w/o providing any auth token.
+# We are ensuring this facility is working through that test case
+
+- name: Create a autohold request with zuul-client and the generated config
+  ansible.builtin.command: |
+    kubectl exec -it zuul-scheduler-0 -c zuul-scheduler -- zuul-client autohold --tenant internal --project config --job config-update --reason CI_TEST
+
+- name: Ensure autohold was set properly
+  ansible.builtin.command: |
+    kubectl exec -it zuul-scheduler-0 -c zuul-scheduler -- zuul-client autohold-list --tenant internal
+  register: _ah_list
+  failed_when: '"CI_TEST" not in _ah_list.stdout'
+
+- name: Remove autohold
+  ansible.builtin.shell: >
+    echo "{{ _ah_list.stdout }}" |
+    grep -oE "0000[0-9]+" |
+    xargs kubectl exec -it zuul-scheduler-0 -c zuul-scheduler -- zuul-client autohold-delete --tenant internal
diff --git a/roles/run-tests/tasks/main.yaml b/roles/run-tests/tasks/main.yaml
index 3e65c4d..080675f 100644
--- a/roles/run-tests/tasks/main.yaml
+++ b/roles/run-tests/tasks/main.yaml
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
     - name: validate-purgelogs
       when: "{{ mode == 'olm' }}"
     - name: zuul-client-api
+    - name: zuul-client-from-zuul-pod
     - name: zuul-components
     - name: test-external-ze
     - name: test-log-forwarding