diff --git a/tests/docker/gitlab.Dockerfile b/tests/docker/gitlab.Dockerfile
index 4e7d850048..640e88e50e 100644
--- a/tests/docker/gitlab.Dockerfile
+++ b/tests/docker/gitlab.Dockerfile
@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
 # syntax=docker/dockerfile:1.4
-FROM python:3.9
+FROM python:3.11
 
-ARG GCLOUD_VERSION=364.0.0
 ARG HELM_VERSION=3.5.4
 
-RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y curl git jq apache2-utils \
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y curl git jq apache2-utils apt-transport-https ca-certificates gnupg \
 	&& curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/$(curl -s https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/stable.txt)/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl \
 	&& chmod +x ./kubectl \
 	&& mv ./kubectl /usr/local/bin \
-	&& curl -O https://dl.google.com/dl/cloudsdk/channels/rapid/downloads/google-cloud-sdk-${GCLOUD_VERSION}-linux-x86_64.tar.gz \
-	&& tar xvzf google-cloud-sdk-${GCLOUD_VERSION}-linux-x86_64.tar.gz \
-	&& mv google-cloud-sdk /usr/lib/ \
+	&& echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/cloud.google.gpg] https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt cloud-sdk main" | tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-cloud-sdk.list \
+	&& curl https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/doc/apt-key.gpg | tee /usr/share/keyrings/cloud.google.gpg \
+	&& apt-get update && apt-get install google-cloud-cli \
+	&& apt-get install google-cloud-sdk-gke-gcloud-auth-plugin \
 	&& curl -LO https://get.helm.sh/helm-v${HELM_VERSION}-linux-amd64.tar.gz \
 	&& tar -zxvf helm-v${HELM_VERSION}-linux-amd64.tar.gz \
 	&& mv linux-amd64/helm /usr/local/bin/helm
@@ -18,11 +18,10 @@ RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y curl git jq apache2-utils \
 WORKDIR /workspace/tests
 
 COPY --link tests/requirements.txt /workspace/tests/
+RUN python -m ensurepip --upgrade
 RUN pip install --require-hashes -r requirements.txt
 
 COPY --link tests /workspace/tests
 COPY --link deployments /workspace/deployments
 
-ENV PATH="/usr/lib/google-cloud-sdk/bin:${PATH}"
-
 ENTRYPOINT ["python3", "-m", "pytest"]