diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 52b27c7..728d425 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ image: php:latest
 # Only needed when using a docker container to run your tests in.
 # Check out: http://docs.gitlab.com/ce/ci/docker/using_docker_images.html#what-is-a-service
 services:
-  - mariadb:latest
+  - mysql:latest
 
 variables:
   MYSQL_DATABASE: "portal"
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ before_script:
   # Prep for Node
   - apt-get install gnupg -yqq
   # Upgrade to Node 8
-  - curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | bash -
+  - curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | bash -
   # Install dependencies
   - apt-get install git nodejs libcurl4-gnutls-dev libicu-dev libmcrypt-dev libvpx-dev libjpeg-dev libpng-dev libxpm-dev zlib1g-dev libfreetype6-dev libxml2-dev libexpat1-dev libbz2-dev libgmp3-dev libldap2-dev unixodbc-dev libpq-dev libsqlite3-dev libaspell-dev libsnmp-dev libpcre3-dev libtidy-dev -yqq
   #- apt-get install php-mbstring php-curl php-json php-intl php-gd php-xml php-zip php-bz2 -yqq
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ before_script:
   # Install php extensions
   - docker-php-ext-install pdo pdo_mysql tokenizer xml pcntl curl json
 #  - docker-php-ext-install mbstring intl gd xml bz2 opcache pdo_mysql curl json zip
+  # Install php extensions
+  - docker-php-ext-install mbstring pdo_mysql curl json intl gd xml zip bz2 opcache
   # Install & enable Xdebug for code coverage reports
   - pecl install xdebug
   - docker-php-ext-enable xdebug
@@ -46,7 +48,7 @@ before_script:
   - php composer.phar install
   # Install Node dependencies.
   # comment this out if you don't have a node dependency
-#  - npm install
+ # - npm install
   # Copy over testing configuration.
   # Don't forget to set the database config in .env.testing correctly
   # DB_HOST=mysql
@@ -58,11 +60,10 @@ before_script:
   # comment this out if you don't have a frontend build
   # you can change this to to your frontend building script like
   # npm run build
-#  - npm run dev
+ # - npm run dev
   # Generate an application key. Re-cache.
   - php artisan key:generate
-#  - php artisan config:cache
-  - php artisan optimize
+  - php artisan config:cache
   # Run database migrations.
   - php artisan migrate
   # Run database seed
@@ -71,9 +72,9 @@ before_script:
 test:
   script:
     # run laravel tests
-    - php artisan test
+    - php vendor/bin/phpunit --coverage-text --colors=never
     # run frontend tests
     # if you have any task for testing frontend
     # set it in your package.json script
     # comment this out if you don't have a frontend test
-#    - npm test
+    - npm test