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+image: docker:git
+
+variables:
+  TMPDIR: "${CI_PROJECT_DIR}.tmp"
+
+services:
+  - docker:dind
+
+stages:
+  - build
+
+before_script:
+  - apk add --update bash coreutils tar wget
+  - git clone https://github.com/ros-industrial/industrial_ci.git .ci_config
+
+industrial_ci_kinetic:
+  stage: build
+  script: .ci_config/gitlab.sh
+  variables:
+    ROS_DISTRO: kinetic
+    ROS_PARALLEL_JOBS: "-j1" # keep this for now, since there seems to be memory limit issues in the ci VM