diff --git a/share/spack/gitlab/cloud_pipelines/.gitlab-ci.yml b/share/spack/gitlab/cloud_pipelines/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 45efff7c99..e1867ac943 100644
--- a/share/spack/gitlab/cloud_pipelines/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/share/spack/gitlab/cloud_pipelines/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ default:
     paths:
       - "${CI_PROJECT_DIR}/jobs_scratch_dir"
   tags: ["spack", "aws", "public", "medium", "x86_64"]
+  variables:
+    KUBERNETES_CPU_REQUEST: 4000m
+    KUBERNETES_MEMORY_REQUEST: 8G
   interruptible: true
   retry:
     max: 2