diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 82b43bf7154bfcc301cd0eb0078687f3f267eae0..a96994623980ccc49e66e8d1d8ed4208a8d32d31 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ doc:
     script:
         - export LC_ALL=$(locale -a | grep en_US)
         - export LANG=$(locale -a | grep en_US)
+        - pip3 install --upgrade pip
         - pip3 install -e .[doc]
         - sphinx-apidoc -o docs/source summit
         - cd docs/source
@@ -47,6 +48,7 @@ pages:
     script:
         - export LC_ALL=$(locale -a | grep en_US)
         - export LANG=$(locale -a | grep en_US)
+        - pip3 install --upgrade pip
         - pip3 install -e .[doc]
         - pytest-3
         - sphinx-apidoc -o docs/source summit