diff --git a/.github/workflows/cypress.yml b/.github/workflows/cypress.yml
index ea00e6f192f..265a9f39c1b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/cypress.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/cypress.yml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ jobs:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
         node-version: [12.x]
-        containers: [1, 2, 3]
+        # containers: [1, 2, 3]
         php-versions: [ '7.4' ]
         databases: [ 'sqlite' ]
         server-versions: [ 'master' ]
@@ -46,12 +46,11 @@ jobs:
         with:
           path: apps/${{ env.APP_NAME }}
 
-
       - name: Set up php ${{ matrix.php-versions }}
         uses: shivammathur/setup-php@v2
         with:
           php-version: ${{ matrix.php-versions }}
-          extensions: mbstring, iconv, fileinfo, intl, sqlite, pdo_sqlite
+          extensions: mbstring, iconv, fileinfo, intl, sqlite, pdo_sqlite, zip, gd, apcu
           coverage: none
 
       - name: Set up Nextcloud
@@ -71,12 +70,14 @@ jobs:
           php occ app:enable viewer
           php occ app:enable text
           php occ app:list
+          curl -v http://localhost:8081/index.php/login
+          cat data/nextcloud.log
 
       - name: Cypress run
         uses: cypress-io/github-action@v2
         with:
-          record: true
-          parallel: true
+          record: false # disabled for now as we have no way to savely use the token in our org
+          parallel: false
           wait-on: '${{ env.CYPRESS_baseUrl }}'
           working-directory: 'apps/${{ env.APP_NAME }}'
         env: