This MR proposes a fix for the GitLab CI/CD build. It should have been fixed in the Google plugin MR but that got merged anyway somehow.
This MR does not do much more than first upgrade the pip installation and then install all the other packages that are needed from requirements.txt. The problem lies with the requests package which needs a newer version of pip than is offered during the initial installation.
The previous GitLab file did also upgrade the pip installation but did that at the same time as installing the requests package, which, indeed, needed a newer version of pip.
Please merge asap to allow for other new MRs to be able to build again as well.