diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 65dd08f0c595f619416e37b54ca2c41b2661cefa..957d2944af5c88110cbe50bc3bd8eb20a73e68ca 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ setup_environment:
     - s3cmd get --force --host=$AWS_HOST --host-bucket=$AWS_HOST s3://ood-config/group_vars/all CRI_XCBC/group_vars/prod
     - s3cmd get --force -r --host=$AWS_HOST --host-bucket=$AWS_HOST s3://cheaha-cloud-ansible-files/ ansible/files/
 
-validate:
+build_image:
   stage: build
   needs:
     - setup_environment
@@ -72,17 +72,8 @@ validate:
   script:
     - source venv/bin/activate
     - $CI_PROJECT_DIR/bin/packer validate openstack
-
-build_image:
-  stage: build
-  needs:
-    - validate
-  tags:
-    - build
-  script:
     - "sed -i 's/hosts:.*$/hosts: default/' CRI_XCBC/ood-packer.yaml"
     - cat CRI_XCBC/ood-packer.yaml
-    - source venv/bin/activate
     - sed -i 's/\(\"--extra-vars\)/\"-vvv\", \1/' openstack/nodeimage.pkr.hcl
     - sed -i 's/inventory_file.*/extra_arguments=[\"-vvv\"]/' openstack/nodeimage.pkr.hcl
     - cat openstack/nodeimage.pkr.hcl