diff --git a/.github/workflows/e2e.yml b/.github/workflows/e2e.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ada1fd0c48
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/e2e.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+name: E2E
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+jobs:
+  e2e-test:
+    runs-on: [self-hosted, gpu]
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        python_version: ["3.10"]
+    timeout-minutes: 10
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Check out repository code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
+      - name: Setup Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        with:
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.python_version }}
+          cache: 'pip' # caching pip dependencies
+
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          pip3 install -e .
+          pip3 install -r requirements-tests.txt
+
+      - name: Run e2e tests
+        run: |
+          pytest tests/e2e/
diff --git a/.github/workflows/main.yml b/.github/workflows/main.yml
index 30d4774dbf..a5b4d30379 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/main.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/main.yml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ jobs:
             python_version: "3.10"
             pytorch: 2.0.1
             axolotl_extras:
-    runs-on: self-hosted
+    runs-on: [self-hosted, gpu, docker]
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v3
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ jobs:
             pytorch: 2.0.1
             axolotl_extras:
             is_latest: true
-    runs-on: self-hosted
+    runs-on: [self-hosted, gpu, docker]
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v3
diff --git a/.github/workflows/tests.yml b/.github/workflows/tests.yml
index 9ff08db074..a2ee392626 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/tests.yml
@@ -29,4 +29,4 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Run tests
         run: |
-          pytest tests/
+          pytest --ignore=tests/e2e/ tests/
diff --git a/tests/e2e/test_lora_llama.py b/tests/e2e/test_lora_llama.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7873b7ec20
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/e2e/test_lora_llama.py
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+"""
+E2E tests for lora llama
+"""
+
+import logging
+import os
+import tempfile
+import unittest
+
+from axolotl.common.cli import TrainerCliArgs
+from axolotl.train import TrainDatasetMeta, train
+from axolotl.utils.config import normalize_config
+from axolotl.utils.data import prepare_dataset
+from axolotl.utils.dict import DictDefault
+from axolotl.utils.models import load_tokenizer
+
+LOG = logging.getLogger("axolotl.tests.e2e")
+os.environ["WANDB_DISABLED"] = "true"
+
+
+def load_datasets(
+    *,
+    cfg: DictDefault,
+    cli_args: TrainerCliArgs,  # pylint:disable=unused-argument
+) -> TrainDatasetMeta:
+    tokenizer = load_tokenizer(cfg)
+
+    train_dataset, eval_dataset, total_num_steps = prepare_dataset(cfg, tokenizer)
+
+    return TrainDatasetMeta(
+        train_dataset=train_dataset,
+        eval_dataset=eval_dataset,
+        total_num_steps=total_num_steps,
+    )
+
+
+class TestLoraLlama(unittest.TestCase):
+    """
+    Test case for Llama models using LoRA
+    """
+
+    def test_lora(self):
+        cfg = DictDefault(
+            {
+                "base_model": "JackFram/llama-68m",
+                "base_model_config": "JackFram/llama-68m",
+                "tokenizer_type": "LlamaTokenizer",
+                "sequence_len": 1024,
+                "load_in_8bit": True,
+                "adapter": "lora",
+                "lora_r": 32,
+                "lora_alpha": 64,
+                "lora_dropout": 0.05,
+                "lora_target_linear": True,
+                "val_set_size": 0.1,
+                "special_tokens": {
+                    "unk_token": "<unk>",
+                    "bos_token": "<s>",
+                    "eos_token": "</s>",
+                },
+                "datasets": [
+                    {
+                        "path": "mhenrichsen/alpaca_2k_test",
+                        "type": "alpaca",
+                    },
+                ],
+                "num_epochs": 2,
+                "micro_batch_size": 8,
+                "gradient_accumulation_steps": 1,
+                "output_dir": tempfile.mkdtemp(),
+                "learning_rate": 0.00001,
+                "optimizer": "adamw_torch",
+                "lr_scheduler": "cosine",
+            }
+        )
+        normalize_config(cfg)
+        cli_args = TrainerCliArgs()
+        dataset_meta = load_datasets(cfg=cfg, cli_args=cli_args)
+
+        train(cfg=cfg, cli_args=cli_args, dataset_meta=dataset_meta)