diff --git a/.github/actions/setup/action.yml b/.github/actions/setup/action.yml
index 732feab71377..c455d40906b6 100644
--- a/.github/actions/setup/action.yml
+++ b/.github/actions/setup/action.yml
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ inputs:
   cache:
     description: "Cache Maven repo (true/false/restore)"
     default: true
+  cleanup-node:
+    description: "Clean up node (true/false) to increase free disk space"
+    default: false # Disabled by default as it adds ~4 minutes of test runtime. Should be enabled case by case.
   download_dependencies:
     description: "Download all Maven dependencies so Maven can work in offline mode"
     default: true
@@ -33,6 +36,10 @@ runs:
       - name: Fetch base ref to find merge-base for GIB
         shell: bash
         run: .github/bin/git-fetch-base-ref.sh
+      - name: Free additional disk space
+        if: ${{ format('{0}', inputs.cleanup-node) == 'true' }}
+        shell: bash
+        run: ./.github/bin/free-disk-space.sh
       - uses: actions/setup-java@v3
         if: ${{ inputs.java-version != '' }}
         with:
diff --git a/.github/bin/free-disk-space.sh b/.github/bin/free-disk-space.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..ef80026b7406
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/bin/free-disk-space.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -euo pipefail
+
+function list_installed_packages()
+{
+    apt list --installed "$1" 2>/dev/null | awk -F'/' 'NR>1{print $1}' | tr '\n' ' '
+}
+
+function free_up_disk_space_ubuntu()
+{
+    local packages=(
+        'azure-cli'
+        'aspnetcore-*'
+        'dotnet-*'
+        'firefox*'
+        'google-chrome-*'
+        'google-cloud-*'
+        'libmono-*'
+        'llvm-*'
+        'imagemagick'
+        'postgresql-*'
+        'rubu-*'
+        'spinxsearch'
+        'unixodbc-dev'
+        'mercurial'
+        'esl-erlang'
+        'microsoft-edge-stable'
+        'mono-*'
+        'msbuild'
+        'mysql-server-core-*'
+        'php-*'
+        'php7*'
+        'powershell*'
+        'mongo*'
+        'microsoft-edge*'
+        'subversion')
+
+    for package in "${packages[@]}"; do
+        installed_packages=$(list_installed_packages "${package}")
+        echo "Removing packages by pattern ${package}: ${installed_packages}"
+        sudo apt-get --auto-remove -y purge ${installed_packages}
+    done
+
+    echo "Autoremoving packages"
+    sudo apt-get autoremove -y
+
+    echo "Autocleaning"
+    sudo apt-get autoclean -y
+
+    echo  "Removing toolchains"
+    sudo rm -rf \
+      /usr/local/graalvm \
+      /usr/local/lib/android/ \
+      /usr/share/dotnet/ \
+      /opt/ghc/ \
+      /usr/local/share/boost/ \
+      "${AGENT_TOOLSDIRECTORY}"
+
+      echo "Prune docker images"
+      sudo docker system prune --all -f
+}
+
+echo "Disk space usage before cleaning:"
+df -k .
+
+echo "Clearing up disk usage:"
+free_up_disk_space_ubuntu
+
+echo "Disk space usage after cleaning:"
+df -k .
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 5803e6128711..54406cb7c4cd 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -96,6 +96,8 @@ jobs:
                 github.event.client_payload.pull_request.head.sha == github.event.client_payload.slash_command.args.named.sha &&
                 format('refs/pull/{0}/head', github.event.client_payload.pull_request.number) || '' }}
       - uses: ./.github/actions/setup
+        with:
+          cleanup-node: true
       - name: Maven Install
         run: |
           export MAVEN_OPTS="${MAVEN_INSTALL_OPTS}"