diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index 32f553643..4b212f821 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -1,13 +1,22 @@
-version: 2
+version: 2.1
+
+general:
+  branches:
+    ignore:
+      - gh-pages
+
 jobs:
   build:
-    branches:
-      ignore:
-        - gh-pages
     docker:
       - image: circleci/python:3.6.4
         environment:
           SECRET_KEY: abcd
+          DATABASE_URL: mysql://root:password@127.0.0.1/promgen?charset=utf8mb4
+      - image: mysql:5.7
+        command: --character-set-server=utf8mb4 --collation-server=utf8mb4_unicode_ci
+        environment:
+          MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: password
+          MYSQL_DATABASE: test_promgen
     steps:
       - checkout
       - run:
@@ -17,9 +26,11 @@ jobs:
             curl -L -s https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/releases/download/v2.8.1/prometheus-2.8.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz |\
             sudo tar -xz -C /usr/local/bin --strip-components=1 prometheus-2.8.1.linux-amd64/promtool
             sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/promtool
-      - run: pipenv install --dev
-      - run: pipenv run promgen test
-      - run: pipenv run coverage html -d test-results
-      - run: pipenv run codecov
+      - run: mkdir -p test-results
+      - run: python3 -m venv .venv
+      - run: .venv/bin/pip install -r docker/requirements.txt
+      - run: .venv/bin/pip install -e .[dev,mysql]
+      - run: .venv/bin/promgen test --with-xunit --xunit-file test-results/nosetests.xml --noinput
+      - run: .venv/bin/codecov
       - store_test_results:
           path: test-results
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 215f4e0e4..366e84fdf 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
             'codecov',
             'django-nose',
             'nose-cov',
+            'unittest-xml-reporting',
         ],
         'docs': [
             'Sphinx',