diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 6817020fcabf4b7551e264709fc89cc487e4f0a0..e0b6978166398138e7e9e4b5eea53428c403f1b9 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -3,10 +3,10 @@
 #
 # Copyright (C) 2018 Research Group Biomedical Physics,
 # Max-Planck-Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization Göttingen
+# Copyright (C) 2020-2022 IndiScale GmbH (info@indiscale.com)
 # Copyright (C) 2019 Henrik tom Wörden
 # Copyright (C) 2020 Timm Fitschen (t.fitschen@indiscale.com)
-# Copyright (C) 2020 IndiScale GmbH (info@indiscale.com)
-# Copyright (C) 2020 Daniel Hornung <d.hornung@indiscale.com>
+# Copyright (C) 2020-2022 Daniel Hornung <d.hornung@indiscale.com>
 #
 # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 # it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
@@ -66,18 +66,23 @@ test-server-side-scripting:
     - make test-sss
 
 # Trigger building of server image and integration tests
-trigger_build:
-  timeout: 15 minutes
-  tags: [ docker ]
+trigger_inttest:
   stage: deploy
-  script:
-    - /usr/bin/curl -X POST
-       -F token=$CI_JOB_TOKEN
-       -F "variables[F_BRANCH]=$CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME"
-       -F "variables[WEBUI]=$CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME"
-       -F "variables[TriggerdBy]=WEBUI"
-       -F "variables[TriggerdByHash]=$CI_COMMIT_SHORT_SHA"
-       -F ref=$DEPLOY_REF https://gitlab.indiscale.com/api/v4/projects/14/trigger/pipeline
+  inherit:
+    variables:
+      # List the variables that shall be inherited, which also means they will override any equally
+      # named varibles in child pipelines.
+      - DEPLOY_REF
+  variables:
+    # Renaming variables.
+    F_BRANCH: $CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME
+    WEBUI: $CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME
+    TriggeredBy: WEBUI
+    TriggeredByHash: $CI_COMMIT_SHORT_SHA
+  trigger:
+    project: caosdb/src/caosdb-deploy
+    branch: $DEPLOY_REF
+    strategy: depend
 
 # Build a docker image in which tests for this repository can run
 build-testenv: