diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 8da5837d22c58a6b76e81b2681a6be0b46e998db..34549175dedfdd908d24b59d9f88a4c2e785e482 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -5,7 +5,9 @@ default:
       - .pip-cache/
   before_script:
     - python3 --version
-    - python3 -m ensurepip --upgrade
+    - curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
+    - python3 get-pip.py
+    - pip install --upgrade pip
     - pip install build twine
 
 stages: