Gitlab CI/CD tunnel not working on project outside of gitlab agent project

Infrastructure as Code & Cloud Native
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  • Gitlab Premium v14.4.0
  • Runners installed v14.4.0 and v14.5.0
  • Gitlab agent v14.5.0 installed in EKS cluster (have also tried with v14.4.0 and stable)
  • 2 projects in group as follows:
    -unixhosting (group)
    –infrastructure (subgroup)
    ---- gitlab-agent (project)
    ---- nginx-gitops-project (project)

gitlab-agent (project) has this config.yaml file:

observability:
logging:
level: debug

ci_access:
groups:
- id: unixhosting/infrastructure
projects:
- id: unixhosting/infrastructure/nginx-gitops-project

nginx-gitops-project (project) AND gitlab-agent (project) have same .gitlab-ci.yml file:
deploy:
tags:
- docker
image:
name: bitnami/kubectl:latest
entrypoint: [""]
script:
- kubectl config get-contexts

gitlab-agent CI pipeline returns:
$ kubectl config get-contexts

23CURRENT NAME CLUSTER AUTHINFO NAMESPACE

24 unixhosting/infrastructure/gitlab-agent:eks-cluster gitlab agent:7

nginx-gitops-project CI pipeline does not return a kubectl context