diff --git a/.github/workflows/cite.yml b/.github/workflows/cite.yml
index 761091b1778..60bb1bde9c2 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/cite.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/cite.yml
@@ -69,20 +69,25 @@ jobs:
           name: geoserver-war
           path: build/cite/geoserver/
 
-      - name: Build ogccite/geoserver:${{ matrix.suite }} docker image
-        working-directory: build/cite
-        run: make build suite=${{ matrix.suite }}
-
       - name: Print services and images used for the ${{ matrix.suite }} test run
         # in case there's a jq syntax error
         continue-on-error: true
         working-directory: build/cite
-        run: make print-docker-compose-services suite=${{ matrix.suite }}
+        run: make print-services suite=${{ matrix.suite }}
 
       - name: Pull teamengine and other required images
         working-directory: build/cite
+        continue-on-error: true
         run: make pull suite=${{ matrix.suite }}
 
+      - name: Build ogccite/geoserver:${{ matrix.suite }} docker image
+        working-directory: build/cite
+        run: make build-geoserver-image suite=${{ matrix.suite }}
+
+      - name: Build the ETS docker image
+        working-directory: build/cite
+        run: make build-ets-image suite=${{ matrix.suite }}
+
       # optional, used to print out a human readable summary of test failures from the testng results xml
       - name: Install the optional xmlstarlet utility
         run: |
diff --git a/build/cite/Makefile b/build/cite/Makefile
index 3dd751cf79c..59989ddf23e 100644
--- a/build/cite/Makefile
+++ b/build/cite/Makefile
@@ -32,17 +32,42 @@ war:	## 					Build the geoserver.war file to use for testing and place it in ./g
 	@$(MAKE) build-war
 	@$(MAKE) copy-war
 
+# calls build-ets-image and build-geoserver-image
+# the CI job may call them independently for the sake of using separate job steps
 .PHONY: build
 build: ##	suite=<suite>				Build the GeoServer Docker Image for the Environment.
 ifndef suite
 	@echo "Error: suite is not specified. Please specify the suite to build the GeoServer Docker image for."
 	@$(MAKE) help
 	@exit 1
+endif
+	@$(MAKE) build-ets-image
+	@$(MAKE) build-geoserver-image
+
+# preparing the geoserver image is performed with docker-compose build including $suite/compose-override.yml
+.PHONY: build-geoserver-image
+build-geoserver-image:
+ifndef suite
+	@echo "Error: suite is not specified. Please specify the suite to build the GeoServer Docker image for."
+	@exit 1
 endif
 	@echo Building the GeoServer Docker Image for the $(suite) test suite
 	@docker compose -f compose.yml -f ./$(suite)/compose.override.yml \
 	  build --no-cache --build-arg SOURCE_FILE=${war_url} geoserver
 
+# If there's a $suite/build-ets.sh file calls it, otherwise exists silently
+.PHONY: build-ets-image
+build-ets-image:
+ifndef suite
+	@echo "Error: suite is not specified. Please specify the suite to build the GeoServer Docker image for."
+	@exit 1
+endif
+	@if [ -f "$(suite)/build-ets.sh" ]; then \
+		(cd $(suite) && ./build-ets.sh); \
+	else \
+		echo "$(suite) has no special script to build the ETS docker image."; \
+	fi
+
 .PHONY: test
 test: ##	suite=<suite>				Run the Test Suite with teamengine and GeoServer on docker compose.
 ifndef suite
@@ -282,7 +307,7 @@ print-logs:
 
 # Used in CI/CD to print which services and images are going to be run
 # Requires `jq`, comes pre-installed in github actions `ubuntu-latest`
-.PHONY: print-docker-compose-services
+.PHONY: print-services
 print-services: ### suite=<suite>			Print the service names and docker images used for a given suite
 ifndef suite
 	@echo "Error: suite is not specified."
diff --git a/build/cite/ogcapi-features10/.gitignore b/build/cite/ogcapi-features10/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..00aec50086b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build/cite/ogcapi-features10/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+ets-ogcapi-features10
diff --git a/build/cite/ogcapi-features10/build-ets.sh b/build/cite/ogcapi-features10/build-ets.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..788f8682be1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build/cite/ogcapi-features10/build-ets.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# build the ets-ogcapi-features10 Docker image from the
+# (at the time of writing, ogccite/ets-ogcapi-features10:1.8-SNAPSHOT-teamengine-5.4.1)
+# from the geoserver's fork `geoserver/integration` branch, which applies
+# patches to the ets that have not yet being released upstream
+
+echo "Building the ogccite/ets-ogcapi-features10 docker image from the geoserver/integration branch"
+rm -rf ets-ogcapi-features10
+git clone https://github.com/geoserver/ets-ogcapi-features10.git
+cd ets-ogcapi-features10
+git checkout geoserver/integration && mvn clean install -Pdocker -DskipTests -ntp
+cd ..
diff --git a/build/cite/ogcapi-features10/compose.override.yml b/build/cite/ogcapi-features10/compose.override.yml
index 47780d79d1b..4ae3e5e3792 100644
--- a/build/cite/ogcapi-features10/compose.override.yml
+++ b/build/cite/ogcapi-features10/compose.override.yml
@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ services:
     # see https://github.com/opengeospatial/teamengine-docker
     # there's ogccite/teamengine-production and ogccite/teamengine-beta
     # that we could use to migrate the other OWS tests to newer teamengine images
-    image: ogccite/ets-ogcapi-features10:1.7.1-teamengine-5.4.1
+    # image: ogccite/ets-ogcapi-features10:1.7.1-teamengine-5.4.1
+    image: ogccite/ets-ogcapi-features10:1.8-SNAPSHOT-teamengine-5.4.1
     healthcheck:
       test: "curl -f http://localhost:8080/teamengine/ || exit 1"
       interval: 15s