diff --git a/.github/workflows/unit-tests.yml b/.github/workflows/unit-tests.yml
index a4fa36fb9f..d4ffb3b9ee 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/unit-tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/unit-tests.yml
@@ -8,10 +8,37 @@ on:
       - '[0-9]+.[0-9]+'
 
 jobs:
-  check-static-codecov:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+  unit-tests:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+    timeout-minutes: 20
+    container:
+      image: domjudge/gitlabci:24.04
+      options: --privileged --cgroupns=host --init
+    services:
+      sqlserver:
+        image: mariadb
+        ports:
+          - 3306:3306
+        env:
+          MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: root
+          MYSQL_USER: domjudge
+          MYSQL_PASSWORD: domjudge
+        options: --health-cmd="healthcheck.sh --connect --innodb_initialized" --health-interval=10s --health-timeout=5s --health-retries=3
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: info
+        run: |
+          cat /proc/cmdline && echo &&
+          cat /proc/mounts && echo &&
+          ls -al /sys/fs/cgroup && echo &&
+          uname -a && echo &&
+          stat -fc %T /sys/fs/cgroup && echo &&
+          cat /proc/self/cgroup && echo &&
+          cat /proc/cpuinfo
+      - name: pstree
+        run: pstree -p
+      - name: Install DOMjudge
+        run: .github/jobs/baseinstall.sh all
       - name: Download latest codecov upload script
         run: wget https://codecov.io/bash -O newcodecov
       - name: Detect changes to manually verify