diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 991697f5c3..386e20856b 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@ services:
 before_script:
   - apt-get update -qq
   - apt-get install -qq python-dev gcc tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-deu unpaper ghostscript libjpeg-dev libpng-dev libtiff-dev poppler-utils
-  - mysql -u root -e 'create database mayan_edms;'
-  - psql -c 'create database mayan_edms;' -U postgres
 stages:
   - build
   - test
@@ -23,8 +21,13 @@ job2:
   script:
   - export TEST_APPS="acls authentication checkouts django_gpg document_indexing document_signatures documents dynamic_search folders lock_manager ocr permissions sources tags"
   - coverage run manage.py test $TEST_APPS --settings=mayan.settings.testing.base
-  - coverage run manage.py test $TEST_APPS --settings=mayan.settings.testing.travis.db_mysql
-  - coverage run manage.py test $TEST_APPS --settings=mayan.settings.testing.travis.db_postgres
+  - coverage run manage.py test $TEST_APPS --settings=mayan.settings.testing.gitlab-ci.db_mysql
+  - coverage run manage.py test $TEST_APPS --settings=mayan.settings.testing.gitlab-ci.db_postgres
   - coveralls
   only:
     - development
+variables:
+  POSTGRES_DB: mayan_edms
+  POSTGRES_PASSWORD: postgres
+  MYSQL_ALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWORD: yes
+  MYSQL_DATABASE: mayan_edms
diff --git a/mayan/settings/testing/gitlab-ci/__init__.py b/mayan/settings/testing/gitlab-ci/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e69de29bb2
diff --git a/mayan/settings/testing/gitlab-ci/db_mysql.py b/mayan/settings/testing/gitlab-ci/db_mysql.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cd66099209
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mayan/settings/testing/gitlab-ci/db_mysql.py
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+from ..base import *  # NOQA
+
+DATABASES = {
+    'default': {
+        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql',
+        'NAME': 'mayan_edms',
+        'USER': 'root',
+    }
+}
diff --git a/mayan/settings/testing/gitlab-ci/db_postgres.py b/mayan/settings/testing/gitlab-ci/db_postgres.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cb9fa54457
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mayan/settings/testing/gitlab-ci/db_postgres.py
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+from ..base import *  # NOQA
+
+DATABASES = {
+    'default': {
+        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2',
+        'NAME': 'mayan_edms',
+        'USER': 'postgres',
+        'PASSWORD': 'postgres',
+    }
+}