diff --git a/test/e2e/ci.sh b/test/e2e/ci.sh
index d6fe18c0db3..c9e1b1c0e98 100755
--- a/test/e2e/ci.sh
+++ b/test/e2e/ci.sh
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@
 source "$(dirname "$0")/../common.sh"
 source "$(dirname "$0")/setup.sh"
 
+build_sample_external_plugin
+
 export KIND_CLUSTER="kind"
 create_cluster ${KIND_K8S_VERSION}
 trap delete_cluster EXIT
diff --git a/test/e2e/externalplugin/e2e_suite_test.go b/test/e2e/externalplugin/e2e_suite_test.go
index de30d1c3096..5c299900035 100644
--- a/test/e2e/externalplugin/e2e_suite_test.go
+++ b/test/e2e/externalplugin/e2e_suite_test.go
@@ -28,5 +28,5 @@ import (
 func TestE2E(t *testing.T) {
 	RegisterFailHandler(Fail)
 	fmt.Fprintf(GinkgoWriter, "Starting sample external plugin kubebuilder suite\n")
-	RunSpecs(t, "Kubebuilder grafana plugin e2e suite")
+	RunSpecs(t, "Kubebuilder sample external plugin e2e suite")
 }
diff --git a/test/e2e/local.sh b/test/e2e/local.sh
index e939159802d..fddf813937d 100755
--- a/test/e2e/local.sh
+++ b/test/e2e/local.sh
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@
 source "$(dirname "$0")/../common.sh"
 source "$(dirname "$0")/setup.sh"
 
+build_sample_external_plugin
+
 export KIND_CLUSTER="local-kubebuilder-e2e"
 create_cluster ${KIND_K8S_VERSION}
 if [ -z "${SKIP_KIND_CLEANUP:-}" ]; then
diff --git a/test/e2e/setup.sh b/test/e2e/setup.sh
index ae6fe2d68b0..31005d70b45 100755
--- a/test/e2e/setup.sh
+++ b/test/e2e/setup.sh
@@ -67,3 +67,30 @@ function test_cluster {
   go test $(dirname "$0")/v4 $flags -timeout 30m
   go test $(dirname "$0")/externalplugin $flags -timeout 30m
 }
+
+function build_sample_external_plugin {
+  # TODO: Dynamically set exteranl plugin destination based on OS platform
+  EXTERNAL_PLUGIN_DESTINATION_PREFIX="${HOME}/Library/Application Support/kubebuilder/plugins"
+
+  PLUGIN_NAME="sampleexternalplugin"
+  PLUGIN_VERSION="v1"
+  EXTERNAL_PLUGIN_DESTINATION="${EXTERNAL_PLUGIN_DESTINATION_PREFIX}/${PLUGIN_NAME}/${PLUGIN_VERSION}"
+  EXTERNAL_PLUGIN_PATH="${EXTERNAL_PLUGIN_DESTINATION}/${PLUGIN_NAME}"
+
+  if [ -d "$EXTERNAL_PLUGIN_DESTINATION" ]; then
+    echo "$EXTERNAL_PLUGIN_DESTINATION does exist."
+    if [ -e "$EXTERNAL_PLUGIN_PATH" ]; then
+      echo "clean up old binary..."
+      rm "$EXTERNAL_PLUGIN_PATH"
+    fi
+  else
+      mkdir -p "$EXTERNAL_PLUGIN_DESTINATION"
+  fi
+
+  REPO_ROOT_DIR="$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)"
+  SOURCE_DIR="${REPO_ROOT_DIR}/docs/book/src/simple-external-plugin-tutorial/testdata/sampleexternalplugin/v1"
+
+  cd $SOURCE_DIR && go build -o $PLUGIN_NAME && mv $PLUGIN_NAME "$EXTERNAL_PLUGIN_PATH"
+
+  cd $REPO_ROOT_DIR
+}