diff --git a/.gitlab-industrial-ci-kinetic-no-rosinstall.yml b/.gitlab-industrial-ci-kinetic-no-rosinstall.yml
index 31f4073b5ac16da9eb255bbb894a1e32fcca7349..a6ef310ac52642481c52f33e0a8a716bb097a964 100644
--- a/.gitlab-industrial-ci-kinetic-no-rosinstall.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-industrial-ci-kinetic-no-rosinstall.yml
@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ before_script:
 
 industrial_ci_kinetic:
   extends: .industrial_ci_kinetic
+  except:
+    - tags
 
 ##########################################################
 ## Simple check for basic Python syntax errors; this is much less thorough than
diff --git a/.gitlab-industrial-ci-kinetic-with-rosinstall.yml b/.gitlab-industrial-ci-kinetic-with-rosinstall.yml
index 01d9587dbbbe1ecd0945f16d6907bb6be57f767d..85e80b62460005dac490fe4bb1c3805f735a880f 100644
--- a/.gitlab-industrial-ci-kinetic-with-rosinstall.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-industrial-ci-kinetic-with-rosinstall.yml
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ before_script:
 
 industrial_ci_kinetic:
   extends: .industrial_ci_kinetic
+  except:
+    - tags
 
 ##########################################################
 ## Simple check for basic Python syntax errors; this is much less thorough than