diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index e4d52650f7c..99d60da3910 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -41,7 +41,8 @@ variables:
   CLIPPY_ALLOWED:                  "clippy::extra_unused_lifetimes"
   # This is a target that does not have a standard library in contrast to Wasm. We compile against
   # this target to make sure that we don't pull in `std` by accident (through dependencies).
-  NO_STD_TARGET:                   "bpfel-unknown-none"
+  # See https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/rustc/platform-support.html#tier-2.
+  NO_STD_TARGET:                   "aarch64-unknown-none"
 
 workflow:
   rules: