diff --git a/test/e2e-common.sh b/test/e2e-common.sh
index f64dfe8b634..9ef60e70b8f 100755
--- a/test/e2e-common.sh
+++ b/test/e2e-common.sh
@@ -169,3 +169,24 @@ function delete_pipeline_resources() {
 function delete_resolvers_resources() {
   kubectl delete --ignore-not-found=true resolutionrequests.resolution.tekton.dev --all
 }
+
+# apply_resources uses ko to first delete all the v1 non-beta and non-no-ci examples in the
+# current namespace to prevent creating examples that already exists and then to ko create 
+# all in the examples file path.
+function apply_resources() {
+  local resource=$1
+  path=${REPO_ROOT_DIR}/examples/v1
+  if ! [ -d ${path} ]; then
+    fail_test
+  fi
+
+  echo ">> Applying the resource ${resource}"
+  # Applying the resources, either *taskruns or * *pipelineruns
+  for file in $(find ${path}/${resource}s/ -name *.yaml | sort); do
+    if [[ ${file} =~ 'no-ci' || ${file} =~ 'beta' ]]; then
+      continue
+    fi
+    perl -p -e 's/gcr.io\/christiewilson-catfactory/$ENV{KO_DOCKER_REPO}/g' ${file} | ko delete -f -
+    perl -p -e 's/gcr.io\/christiewilson-catfactory/$ENV{KO_DOCKER_REPO}/g' ${file} | ko create -f - || return 1
+  done
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test/e2e-tests-upgrade.sh b/test/e2e-tests-upgrade.sh
index 75b285642ab..b88eb71a9ef 100755
--- a/test/e2e-tests-upgrade.sh
+++ b/test/e2e-tests-upgrade.sh
@@ -66,6 +66,13 @@ uninstall_pipeline_crd_version $PREVIOUS_PIPELINE_VERSION
 header "Install the previous release of Tekton pipeline $PREVIOUS_PIPELINE_VERSION"
 install_pipeline_crd_version $PREVIOUS_PIPELINE_VERSION
 
+# Create the resources of taskrun and pipelinerun, under the directories example/taskrun
+# and example/pipelinerun.
+for test in taskrun pipelinerun; do
+  header "Applying the resources ${test}s"
+  apply_resources ${test}
+done
+
 # Upgrade to the current release.
 header "Upgrade to the current release of Tekton pipeline"
 install_pipeline_crd