diff --git a/.zuul.yaml b/.zuul.yaml
index 07c05b782da0..ea488401cf21 100644
--- a/.zuul.yaml
+++ b/.zuul.yaml
@@ -556,6 +556,7 @@
         GLANCE_STANDALONE: True
         GLANCE_USE_IMPORT_WORKFLOW: True
         DEVSTACK_PARALLEL: True
+        MYSQL_REDUCE_MEMORY: True
       # NOTE(danms): This job is pretty heavy as it is, so we disable some
       # services that are not relevant to the nova-glance-ceph scenario
       # that this job is intended to validate.