diff --git a/common/.commonfiles.sha b/common/.commonfiles.sha
index aa8c46965dc..ce169e4e03c 100644
--- a/common/.commonfiles.sha
+++ b/common/.commonfiles.sha
@@ -1 +1 @@
-f0c964858bc7cc9f02af8d0134e913f18b5169a3
+4ea7b9c984a499daa4e8369ec86a1123143d41d8
diff --git a/common/scripts/kind_provisioner.sh b/common/scripts/kind_provisioner.sh
index 85b93bdaf6f..bc55f2e4f34 100644
--- a/common/scripts/kind_provisioner.sh
+++ b/common/scripts/kind_provisioner.sh
@@ -228,7 +228,10 @@ EOF
     # https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind/issues/1558 tracks this upstream
     CONTAINER_IP=$(docker inspect "${CLUSTER_NAME}-control-plane" --format "{{ .NetworkSettings.Networks.kind.IPAddress }}")
     kind get kubeconfig --name "${CLUSTER_NAME}" --internal | \
-      sed "s/${CLUSTER_NAME}-control-plane/${CONTAINER_IP}/g" > "${CLUSTER_KUBECONFIG}"
+      sed "s/${CLUSTER_NAME}-control-plane/${CONTAINER_IP}/g" > "${CLUSTER_KUBECONFIG}"+
+
+    # Enable core dumps
+    docker exec "${CLUSTER_NAME}"-control-plane bash -c "sysctl -w kernel.core_pattern=/var/lib/istio/data/core.proxy && ulimit -c unlimited"
   }
 
   # Now deploy the specified number of KinD clusters and