diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 0a9c58518d6a1610fa0e0e7bb88038e5b9dca4f0..024bab42efc44f4a7a126884fefbf58afc1e6b31 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -360,9 +360,10 @@ docs-registry:
     refs:
       - /^release-.*/
   before_script:
+    - "pip install pipenv"
+    - "pipenv install --dev --system --deploy"
     - "apt-get update && apt-get install -y sed"
   script:
-    - pip install -r ./requirements.txt
     - python3 .docs/docker/release.py
 
 release-images: