diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index f938fa8d..faa665e9 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ jobs:
           fetch-depth: 0
       - uses: actions/setup-go@v2
         with:
-          go-version: '^1.16'
+          go-version: '1.16'
       - run: make installer
       - name: Checking if YAML installer file is not aligned
         run: if [[ $(git diff | wc -l) -gt 0 ]]; then echo ">>> Untracked generated files have not been committed" && git --no-pager diff && exit 1; fi
diff --git a/.github/workflows/e2e.yml b/.github/workflows/e2e.yml
index 6b753a38..eea9e672 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/e2e.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/e2e.yml
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ jobs:
           fetch-depth: 0
       - uses: actions/setup-go@v2
         with:
-          go-version: '^1.16'
+          go-version: '1.16'
       - run: make manifests
       - name: Checking if manifests are disaligned
         run: test -z "$(git diff 2> /dev/null)"
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ jobs:
         run: go get github.com/onsi/ginkgo/ginkgo
       - uses: actions/setup-go@v2
         with:
-          go-version: '^1.16'
+          go-version: '1.16'
       - uses: engineerd/setup-kind@v0.5.0
         with:
           skipClusterCreation: true