diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yaml b/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
index daa101b16..7e685969a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
@@ -71,14 +71,11 @@ jobs:
           --health-interval 10s
           --health-timeout 5s
           --health-retries 5
-      nats:
-        image: "bitnami/nats:latest"
-        ports:
-          - 4222:4222
-        env:
-          NATS_EXTRA_ARGS: -js
 
     steps:
+      - name: Start JetStream
+        run: docker run -d -p 4222:4222 nats:latest -js
+
       - name: Start Pulsar standalone container
         run: docker run -d -p 6650:6650 -p 8080:8080 apachepulsar/pulsar:4.0.0 bin/pulsar standalone