diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index fcc02bf49a5723e0e22b86aa451710d6cf770b70..a03708a9c59a3d201b3299906d3b035111fe3ee0 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@ image: python:3.6
 
 # additional services needed, the versions are matching the production machine
 # the services will be accessible under the hostnames: "postgres" and "mongo"
-# services:
-#   - rabbitmq
-#   - docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:6.3.2
-#   - mongo:latest
+services:
+  - rabbitmq
+  - docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:6.3.2
+  - mongo:latest
 
 variables:
   NOMAD_RABBIT_HOST: rabbitmq
diff --git a/nomad/config.py b/nomad/config.py
index db1ed869ff94c187ebfd41c1e63ebc4dfa604ce7..7d8f5f3bc6eb391b2d5c799c1e8e40f2ce492a9d 100644
--- a/nomad/config.py
+++ b/nomad/config.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ FilesConfig = namedtuple(
 """ API independent configuration for the object storage. """
 
 CeleryConfig = namedtuple('Celery', ['broker_url'])
-""" Used to configure the RabbitMQ and Redis backends for celery. """
+""" Used to configure the RabbitMQ for celery. """
 
 FSConfig = namedtuple('FSConfig', ['tmp', 'objects'])
 """ Used to configure file stystem access. """
@@ -54,10 +54,7 @@ rabbit_host = os.environ.get('NOMAD_RABBITMQ_HOST', 'localhost')
 rabbit_port = os.environ.get('NOMAD_RABBITMQ_PORT', None)
 rabbit_user = 'rabbitmq'
 rabbit_password = 'rabbitmq'
-redis_host = os.environ.get('NOMAD_REDIS_HOST', 'localhost')
-
 rabbit_url = 'pyamqp://%s:%s@%s//' % (rabbit_user, rabbit_password, rabbit_host)
-redis_url = 'redis://%s/0' % redis_host
 
 celery = CeleryConfig(
     broker_url=rabbit_url