diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index b944115..f14ce1a 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -1,21 +1,32 @@
-# The Docker image that will be used to build your app
-image: python:3.10
-# Functions that should be executed before the build script is run
-before_script:
-  - pip install poetry
-  - poetry config virtualenvs.in-project true
-  - poetry install
-pages:
-  script:
-    - cp ./README.md ./docs/source/README.md && cp -r ./data ./docs/source/data/
-    - poetry run sphinx-apidoc ./src -o ./docs/source/modules --no-toc
-      --module-first --follow-links --separate --force
-    - poetry run sphinx-build -b html docs/source/ public/ -E -a
-  artifacts:
-    paths:
-      # The folder that contains the files to be exposed at the Page URL
-      - public
+include:
+  - project: "Gitlab/gitlab"
+    ref: 0.3.0
+    file: "/ci-templates/research/dvc-versioning-build-release.gitlab-ci.yml"
+    # file: "/ci-templates/research/versioning-build+azure_model-test-release.gitlab-ci.yml"
+
+variables:
+  NEXUS_PROJECT_DIR: red
+  IMAGENAME: "${CI_PROJECT_NAME}"
+
+#################################
+# temp. disable integration tests, b/c they don't cover the CV analysis case yet
+trigger integration tests:
   rules:
-    # This ensures that only pushes to the default branch will trigger
-    # a pages deploy
-    - if: $CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME == $CI_DEFAULT_BRANCH
+    - when: never
+
+release build:
+  stage: release
+  needs:
+  - job: set custom version
+    artifacts: true
+    optional: true
+  - job: calculate patch version
+    artifacts: true
+    optional: true
+  - job: calculate minor version
+    artifacts: true
+    optional: true
+  - job: build docker nexus
+    artifacts: true
+#################################
+