diff --git a/keywords/linux/tar/tar_keywords.py b/keywords/linux/tar/tar_keywords.py
index f5fbdcea..f9bc2399 100644
--- a/keywords/linux/tar/tar_keywords.py
+++ b/keywords/linux/tar/tar_keywords.py
@@ -10,14 +10,28 @@ class TarKeywords(BaseKeyword):
     def __init__(self, ssh_connection: SSHConnection):
         self.ssh_connection = ssh_connection
 
-    def extract_tar_file(self, file_name: str):
+    def extract_tar_file(self, file_name: str) -> None:
         """
-        Extracts the given tar file
+        Extracts the given tar file.
+
         Args:
-            file_name (): the name of the file
-
-        Returns:
-
+            file_name (str): the name of the file.
         """
-        self.ssh_connection.send(f'tar -xzvf {file_name}')
+        self.ssh_connection.send(f"tar -xzvf {file_name}")
+        self.validate_success_return_code(self.ssh_connection)
+
+    def decompress_tar_gz(self, file_name: str) -> None:
+        """
+        Decompresses a .tar.gz file into a .tar file without extracting contents.
+
+        Args:
+            file_name (str): The path to the .tar.gz file.
+
+        Raises:
+            ValueError: If the file does not have a .tar.gz extension.
+        """
+        if not file_name.endswith(".tar.gz"):
+            raise ValueError("File must be a .tar.gz archive.")
+
+        self.ssh_connection.send(f"gunzip -f {file_name}")
         self.validate_success_return_code(self.ssh_connection)
diff --git a/testcases/cloud_platform/sanity/test_sanity.py b/testcases/cloud_platform/sanity/test_sanity.py
index d4b6ca6a..5035cd6a 100644
--- a/testcases/cloud_platform/sanity/test_sanity.py
+++ b/testcases/cloud_platform/sanity/test_sanity.py
@@ -1447,7 +1447,7 @@ def deploy_images_to_local_registry(ssh_connection: SSHConnection):
     docker_load_image_keywords.push_docker_image_to_registry("pv-test", local_registry)
 
     file_keywords.upload_file(get_stx_resource_path("resources/cloud_platform/images/node-hello-alpine/node-hello-alpine.tar.gz"), "/home/sysadmin/node-hello-alpine.tar.gz", overwrite=False)
-    TarKeywords(ssh_connection).extract_tar_file("/home/sysadmin/node-hello-alpine.tar.gz")
+    TarKeywords(ssh_connection).decompress_tar_gz("/home/sysadmin/node-hello-alpine.tar.gz")
     docker_load_image_keywords.load_docker_image_to_host("node-hello-alpine.tar")
     docker_load_image_keywords.tag_docker_image_for_registry("registry.local:9001/node-hello:alpine", "node-hello", local_registry)
     docker_load_image_keywords.push_docker_image_to_registry("node-hello", local_registry)