diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 4beb72af2..21421e4fb 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 wikibase-local-ca.crt
 *.bak
+.extracted
diff --git a/bin/extract-yaml-job-scripts b/bin/extract-yaml-job-scripts
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..42c87a041
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/extract-yaml-job-scripts
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+if [[ -n "${CI}" ]]; then
+    set -x
+fi
+
+# absolute path of the wbaas-deploy repository
+ROOT=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)
+EXTRACTED_SCRIPTS_DIR="$ROOT/k8s/jobs/.extracted"
+
+rm -Rfv "$ROOT/k8s/jobs/.extracted"/*_extracted.sh
+mkdir -p "$EXTRACTED_SCRIPTS_DIR"
+
+for file in "$ROOT"/k8s/jobs/*.yaml; do
+    BASENAME=$(basename "$file")
+    TMP_FILE="${EXTRACTED_SCRIPTS_DIR}/${BASENAME}_extracted.sh"
+    SCRIPT_SHELL=$(cat "$file" | yq '.spec.template.spec.containers[0].command[0]')
+
+    if [[ "$SCRIPT_SHELL" == "null" ]]; then
+        continue
+    fi
+
+    SCRIPT=$(cat "$file" | yq '.spec.template.spec.containers[0].command[2]')
+    echo "#!/usr/bin/env $SCRIPT_SHELL" >"$TMP_FILE"
+    echo "$SCRIPT" >>"$TMP_FILE"
+
+    echo "extracted $TMP_FILE"
+done