diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/deploy.yml b/.gitea/workflows/deploy.yml
index 41454ec3..304af3ff 100644
--- a/.gitea/workflows/deploy.yml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/deploy.yml
@@ -141,13 +141,8 @@ jobs:
           echo "📡 Connecting to server and executing deployment commands..."
           echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
           
-          # Execute remote commands with error handling and logging using bash -s
-          ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=accept-new \
-              -o ServerAliveInterval=30 \
-              -o ServerAliveCountMax=3 \
-              -o ConnectTimeout=10 \
-              -v \
-              deploy@alpha.mintel.me bash -s << 'ENDSSH'
+          # Create deployment script
+          cat > /tmp/deploy.sh << 'DEPLOYEOF'
           set -ex
           echo '━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━'
           echo '📡 Remote Deployment Started'
@@ -155,7 +150,7 @@ jobs:
           echo ''
           
           echo '🔐 Logging into registry on remote server...'
-          echo '${{ secrets.REGISTRY_PASS }}' | docker login registry.infra.mintel.me -u '${{ secrets.REGISTRY_USER }}' --password-stdin
+          echo 'REGISTRY_PASS_PLACEHOLDER' | docker login registry.infra.mintel.me -u 'REGISTRY_USER_PLACEHOLDER' --password-stdin
           echo '✅ Remote registry login completed'
           echo ''
           
@@ -186,7 +181,18 @@ jobs:
           echo '━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━'
           echo '✅ Remote Deployment Completed Successfully'
           echo '━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━'
-          ENDSSH
+          DEPLOYEOF
+          
+          # Replace placeholders with actual secrets
+          sed -i "s/REGISTRY_USER_PLACEHOLDER/${{ secrets.REGISTRY_USER }}/g" /tmp/deploy.sh
+          sed -i "s/REGISTRY_PASS_PLACEHOLDER/${{ secrets.REGISTRY_PASS }}/g" /tmp/deploy.sh
+          
+          # Execute remote commands
+          ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=accept-new \
+              -o ServerAliveInterval=30 \
+              -o ServerAliveCountMax=3 \
+              -o ConnectTimeout=10 \
+              deploy@alpha.mintel.me 'bash -s' < /tmp/deploy.sh
           
           DEPLOY_EXIT_CODE=$?
           echo ""