Finally solved the issue. All I had to do was, add the postgres under the services. The documentation made it seem like the postgres service would be already there.
Here’s how my final .gilab-ci.yml looks -
services:
- postgres
test:
script:
- apt-get update -y
- apt-get install -y python-dev python-pip
- pip install -r requirements.txt
- python manage.py test
variables:
DATABASE_HOST: postgres
DATABASE_USER: postgres
DATABASE_PASSWORD: ""