diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
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--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -2,3 +2,7 @@
 
 - archived old readme and dev environment files (moved in attic)
 - build from sources compiling the cli (updated the README.md)
+
+# sciabarracom 3 May 2026
+- `Taskfile.yml` for building the operator
+- `test.sh` for a smoke test
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index da673cb..34b1ac0 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -8,39 +8,47 @@ Welcome to   [Apache OpenServerless](https://openserverless.apache.org), an incu
 - If you want to **discuss** with us, join  our mailing list sending an email to `dev-subscribe@openserverless.apache.org`
 - If you want to **locally install**  open serverless from sources test or development, read on.
 
-# Build from sources
+# Build and test from sources
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
 - you need an Unix environment, either OSX, Linux or Windows WSL.
-- you need docker availabe on the path
+- you need docker on the path
 - you need go available on the path
+- you need task (https://taskfile.dev) available in the path
 
 ## Procedure
 
-Clone all the modules and submodules recursively:
+### 1. Get the sources
 
-1. `git clone https://github.com/apache/openserverless --recurse-submodules`
+Clone all the modules and submodules recursively
 
-2. build ops running `./build.sh`
+`git clone https://github.com/apache/openserverless --recurse-submodules`
 
-3. check ops works executing `./ops -info`
+### 2. Build
 
-verify that  OPS_ROOT is equals to $PWD/olaris, so you can use the tasks from sources
+First clean everything
 
-then execute `./ops -t`
+`task clean`
 
-you should see somethin like this (files and version may vary)
+then build:
 
-```
-ensuring prerequisite coreutils 0.0.27
-ensuring prerequisite bun 1.2.5
-ensuring prerequisite kubectl 1.33.1
-```
+`task build`
 
-4. install openserverless in docker with
+This will
+- build the cli
+- build the operator image
+TODO: build the runtimes
+
+3. Smoke test
+
+Execute a basic smoke test
+
+`bash smoke.sh`
+
+4. More tests
+
+TODO: execute locally the full test suite under ./testing
 
-`./ops setup mini`
 
-If everything works you end up with a running openserverless in docker
 
diff --git a/Taskfile.yml b/Taskfile.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9b35192
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Taskfile.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+version: 3
+
+vars:
+
+  OPERATOR_IMG:
+    sh: awk -F= '/ARG OPERATOR_IMAGE_DEFAULT=/ { print $2 ; exit }' olaris-op/Dockerfile
+
+  OPERATOR_TAG:
+    sh: git  -C olaris-op rev-parse --short HEAD
+
+  OPERATOR_SRC: "{{.OPERATOR_IMG}}:{{.OPERATOR_TAG}}"
+
+  OPERATOR_TGT:
+      sh: |
+          B64="$(echo {{.OPERATOR_SRC}} | /usr/bin/base64 -w0 )"
+          echo ~/.ops/{{OS}}-{{ARCH}}/images/kind/$B64
+
+tasks:
+
+    default: task -l
+
+    clean:
+      desc: clean the intermediate artifacts
+      cmds:
+      - rm -vf ./ops ~/.ops/{{OS}}-{{ARCH}}/images/kind/*
+
+    build:
+      desc: build all
+      cmds:
+      - task: cli
+      - task: operator
+      - task: opsroot
+
+
+    image-save:
+      desc: save an a SRC image in the TGT file
+      requires: { vars: [SRC, TGT]}
+      cmds:
+      - docker save {{.SRC}} -o {{.TGT}}
+
+    cli:
+      desc: build the cli
+      dir: cli
+      cmds:
+      - go build -o ../ops cmd/ops/main.go
+      status:
+      - ! test -e ../ops
+
+    operator:
+      desc: build the operator
+      deps:
+      - cli
+      dir: olaris-op
+      cmds:
+      - echo Building {{.OPERATOR_SRC}}
+      - git tag -d $(git tag) && git tag {{.OPERATOR_TAG}}
+      - task b:build
+      - echo Saving {{.OPERATOR_TGT}}
+      - task: image-save
+        vars:
+          SRC: "{{.OPERATOR_SRC}}"
+          TGT: "{{.OPERATOR_TGT}}"
+      status:
+      - ! test -e "{{.OPERATOR_TGT}}"
+
+
+    opsroot:
+      desc: build current opsroot.json
+      dir: olaris
+      cmds:
+      - test -e opsroot.orig || jq . <opsroot.json >opsroot.orig
+      - >
+        jq <opsroot.orig >opsroot.json  '
+          .config.images = {} |
+          .config.images.operator = "{{.OPERATOR_SRC}}"
+        '
+      - diff opsroot.orig opsroot.json || true
+
+    runtimes:
+      desc: build current runtimes.json
+      dir: olaris
+      cmds:
+      - test -e runtimes.orig || jq . <runtimes.json >runtimes.orig
+      - >
+        jq <runtimes.orig >runtimes.json  '
+          .runtimes = {} |
+          .blackboxes = {}
+        '
+      - diff runtimes.orig runtimes.json || true
diff --git a/build.sh b/build.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index 20ad74d..0000000
--- a/build.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-cd cli
-go build -o ../ops cmd/ops/main.go
-cd ..
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diff --git a/test.sh b/test.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..ba7127c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+echo Checking prerequisites
+test -e ./ops
+which docker
+
+echo Cleaning everything
+docker rm -f nuvolaris-control-plane
+
+echo Creating Kind Cluster
+./ops setup docker create
+
+echo Checking Images
+./ops util fr kind-list | grep apache/openserverless
+
+echo Deploying the operator
+
+./ops setup kubernetes permission
+./ops setup kubernetes pre-deploy
+./ops setup kubernetes operator
+
+echo Wait until the operator is up-and-running
+./ops setup kubernetes wait OBJECT=po/nuvolaris-operator-0 COND=true