diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index a01ef9c4..343408b9 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ on:
     tags:
       - "*"
 jobs:
-  run-ci-tests:
+  run-ci-tests-stream-8:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v2
@@ -22,6 +22,21 @@ jobs:
           artifacts: "build/*.rpm,builddeb/*.deb"
           token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
           allowUpdates: true
+  run-ci-tests-stream-9:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - name: Inject slug/short variables
+        uses: rlespinasse/github-slug-action@v4
+      - run: echo $GITHUB_REF_NAME
+      - run: mkdir build && chmod a+rwx . documentation build
+      - run: podman build -t quay.io/rigazilla/ci-build-centos-9:latest -f ci-build/centos-stream9.Dockerfile .
+      - run: podman run -v `pwd`:/home/jboss/cpp-client quay.io/rigazilla/ci-build-centos-9:latest /bin/bash -c "cd cpp-client && INFINISPAN_VERSION=13.0.10.Final CLIENT_VERSION=$GITHUB_REF_NAME PLATFORM_TAG=el9 ./build.sh"
+      - uses: ncipollo/release-action@v1
+        with:
+          artifacts: "build/*.rpm,builddeb/*.deb"
+          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          allowUpdates: true
   run-ci-tests-win:
     runs-on: windows-latest
     steps:
diff --git a/ci-build/centos-stream9.Dockerfile b/ci-build/centos-stream9.Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..dab71a86
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ci-build/centos-stream9.Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+FROM quay.io/centos/centos:stream9
+
+ENV JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-11
+
+RUN yum -y install 'dnf-command(config-manager)'
+RUN yum config-manager --set-enabled crb
+RUN dnf -y update && \
+   dnf -y install \
+   cmake \
+   cyrus-sasl-devel \
+   cyrus-sasl-plain \
+   cyrus-sasl-md5 \
+   cyrus-sasl-gssapi \
+   iputils \
+   java-11-openjdk-devel \
+   krb5-workstation \
+   krb5-devel \
+   maven \
+   openssl-devel \
+   procps-ng \
+   protobuf \
+   protobuf-devel \
+   python3 \
+   rpmdevtools \
+   valgrind \
+   wget \
+   yum-utils && \
+   dnf -y group install "Development Tools" && \
+   dnf clean all && \
+   rm -rf /var/cache/yum
+
+#RUN wget http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/dchen/apache-maven/epel-apache-maven.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/epel-apache-maven.repo
+#RUN yum -y install apache-maven
+
+#RUN cd /usr/lib64 && ln -s libkrb5.so.3.3 libkrb5.so && ln -s libkrb5support.so.0.1 libkrb5support.so
+
+RUN groupadd -r jboss -g 1000 && useradd -u 1000 -r -g jboss -m -d /home/jboss -s /sbin/nologin -c "JBoss user" jboss && \
+   chmod 755 /home/jboss
+
+# Set the working directory to jboss' user home directory
+WORKDIR /home/jboss
+
+# Specify the user which should be used to execute all commands below
+USER jboss
+
+