diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index d5aef513..8312578e 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ stages:
   extends: .setup
   variables:
     KUBERNETES_CPU_REQUEST: $CPU_REQUEST
+  only:
+    variables:
+      - $BUILD_ENABLE_REGEX == null || $CI_JOB_NAME =~ $BUILD_ENABLE_REGEX
   script:
     - KASFILES=$(./ci/jobs-to-kas "$CI_JOB_NAME")
     - kas shell --update --force-checkout $KASFILES -c 'cat conf/*.conf'