diff --git a/.github/workflows/manual-deploy.yml b/.github/workflows/manual-deploy.yml
index d8f7a9d7f..1ba15fee7 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/manual-deploy.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/manual-deploy.yml
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ jobs:
         gcloud compute instances create-with-container "zebrad-$BRANCH_NAME-$SHORT_SHA" \
         --container-image "gcr.io/$PROJECT_ID/$REPOSITORY/$BRANCH_NAME:$SHORT_SHA" \
         --container-mount-disk mount-path='/zebrad-cache',name=zebrad-cache-$SHORT_SHA \
-        --create-disk name=zebrad-cache-$SHORT_SHA,size=100GB,type=pd-balanced \
+        --create-disk name=zebrad-cache-$SHORT_SHA,auto-delete=yes,size=100GB,type=pd-balanced \
         --machine-type n2-standard-4 \
         --service-account cos-vm@zealous-zebra.iam.gserviceaccount.com \
         --tags zebrad \