diff --git a/src/integration_tester/.gitlab-ci.yml b/src/integration_tester/.gitlab-ci.yml
index fef34bcf8ce20bbd98e5bd613c5571041874ebd2..1158ededec904f136175c92f7d18475cb4f0e8e7 100644
--- a/src/integration_tester/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/src/integration_tester/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -40,6 +40,9 @@ test integration_tester:
 
 # Run integration tests in Kubernetes Cluster
 integration_test integration_tester:
+  variables:
+    IMAGE_NAME: 'integration_tester' # name of the microservice
+    IMAGE_TAG: 'latest' # tag of the container image (production, development, etc)
   stage: integration_test
   needs:
     - build integration_tester
@@ -54,3 +57,4 @@ integration_test integration_tester:
     - kubectl run $IMAGE_NAME --image "$IMAGE_NAME:$IMAGE_TAG" --restart=Never --rm -i --tty
     - kubectl get all
   when: manual
+  allow_failure: false