diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 0d4e8b145ff7629b61411f2c4438ab5fea566ca6..4185c19d1d8504c257656d851c5668dd1306ca41 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ build-metadata-service:
   stage: build
   only:
     - merge_requests
+    - master
   script:
     - "mvn -f ./dbrepo-metadata-service/pom.xml clean install $MAVEN_OPTS -DskipTests"
   # Compiled classes are needed for SonarQube in later stages
@@ -190,6 +191,7 @@ build-data-service:
   stage: build
   only:
     - merge_requests
+    - master
   needs:
     - build-metadata-service
   dependencies: