diff --git a/cluster/ephemeral-provider-common.sh b/cluster/ephemeral-provider-common.sh
index 34606e4a126b..96083d64a9f8 100644
--- a/cluster/ephemeral-provider-common.sh
+++ b/cluster/ephemeral-provider-common.sh
@@ -2,7 +2,9 @@
 
 set -e
 
-_cli="docker run --privileged --net=host --rm ${USE_TTY} -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock kubevirtci/gocli@sha256:4a4565eb4487be95f464cb942590bbaa980a5b56acb32d955f7a9f81f4ba843c"
+_cli_container="kubevirtci/gocli@sha256:4a4565eb4487be95f464cb942590bbaa980a5b56acb32d955f7a9f81f4ba843c"
+_cli_with_tty="docker run --privileged --net=host --rm -t -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock ${_cli_container}"
+_cli="docker run --privileged --net=host --rm ${USE_TTY} -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock ${_cli_container}"
 
 function _main_ip() {
     echo 127.0.0.1
@@ -55,9 +57,9 @@ function build() {
         container_alt_alias="${container_alt_alias} ${manifest_docker_prefix}/${name}:${docker_tag} ${manifest_docker_prefix}/${name}:${docker_tag_alt}"
     done
     for i in $(seq 1 ${KUBEVIRT_NUM_NODES}); do
-        ${_cli} ssh --prefix $provider_prefix "node$(printf "%02d" ${i})" "echo \"${container}\" | xargs \-\-max-args=1 sudo docker pull"
-        ${_cli} ssh --prefix $provider_prefix "node$(printf "%02d" ${i})" "echo \"${container_alias}\" | xargs \-\-max-args=2 sudo docker tag"
-        ${_cli} ssh --prefix $provider_prefix "node$(printf "%02d" ${i})" "echo \"${container_alt_alias}\" | xargs \-\-max-args=2 sudo docker tag"
+        ${_cli_with_tty} ssh --prefix $provider_prefix "node$(printf "%02d" ${i})" "echo \"${container}\" | xargs \-\-max-args=1 sudo docker pull"
+        ${_cli_with_tty} ssh --prefix $provider_prefix "node$(printf "%02d" ${i})" "echo \"${container_alias}\" | xargs \-\-max-args=2 sudo docker tag"
+        ${_cli_with_tty} ssh --prefix $provider_prefix "node$(printf "%02d" ${i})" "echo \"${container_alt_alias}\" | xargs \-\-max-args=2 sudo docker tag"
     done
 }