GitLab CI is failing due to maven-surefire-plugin with VM crash

Question

We have around of 10 different applications that are Spring Boot projects with Groovy.

All of our projects build correctly in all developer work stations and they we

Answer 1

I had the same issue when I used the maven:3-jdk-8 in my gitlab-ci.yml for the maven build. I changed it to maven:3-jdk-9 and the issue was gone.