diff --git a/kubernetes/kubernetes-unversioned/centos/files/upgrade_k8s_config.sh b/kubernetes/kubernetes-unversioned/centos/files/upgrade_k8s_config.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 3aaa5edd8..000000000
--- a/kubernetes/kubernetes-unversioned/centos/files/upgrade_k8s_config.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,85 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-# Copyright (c) 2021 Wind River Systems, Inc.
-#
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-#
-
-# This will run for every k8s upgrade as a part of the control-plane upgrade of the first master.
-# - updates kubeadm-config configmap to configure kube-apiserver manifest with RemoveSelfLink=false.
-# - generates a kubelet config override file to configure cgroupDriver=cgroupfs.
-#   This is consumed by kubeadm upgrade apply
-#
-# Background:
-# Kubernetes 1.21 changed cgroupDriver default to systemd (was cgroupfs).
-# Kubernetes 1.20 changed feature-gates RemoveSelfLink default to true.
-
-
-KUBEADM_CONFIGMAP_TMPFILE='/tmp/kubeadm_cm.yaml'
-
-function log {
-    logger -p local1.info "$1"
-}
-
-# Update the configmap for kubeadm
-function update_apiserver_configmap {
-
-    log "Retrieving kubeadm configmap to temporary location: ${KUBEADM_CONFIGMAP_TMPFILE}"
-    counter=0
-    RC=0
-    RETRIES=10
-    until  [ $counter -gt $RETRIES ]; do
-        kubectl --kubeconfig=/etc/kubernetes/admin.conf -n kube-system get \
-            configmap kubeadm-config -o yaml > ${KUBEADM_CONFIGMAP_TMPFILE}
-        RC=$?
-        if [ "$RC" = "0" ] ; then
-            log "Kubeadm configmap retrieved."
-            break
-        fi
-        log "Error retrieving kubeadm configmap, retrying..."
-        sleep 5
-        let "counter+=1"
-    done
-
-    if [ $counter -gt $RETRIES ]; then
-        log "Failed to retrieve kubeadm configmap with error code [$RC]".
-        exit $RC
-    fi
-
-    if ! grep -q 'RemoveSelfLink=false' ${KUBEADM_CONFIGMAP_TMPFILE}; then
-
-        log "Updating kube-apiserver feature-gates in retrieved kubeadm-config"
-
-        if sed -i \
-'/^\s*feature-gates:\s*.*HugePageStorageMediumSize='\
-'true/ s/$/,RemoveSelfLink=false/' ${KUBEADM_CONFIGMAP_TMPFILE}; then
-
-            if grep -q 'RemoveSelfLink=false' ${KUBEADM_CONFIGMAP_TMPFILE};
-            then
-                log "Successfully updated retrieved kubeadm-config"
-                if kubectl --kubeconfig=/etc/kubernetes/admin.conf replace -f \
-                        ${KUBEADM_CONFIGMAP_TMPFILE}; then
-                    log 'Successfully replaced updated kubeadm configmap.'
-                else
-                    RC=$?
-                    log "Failed to replace updated kubeadm configmap with error code: [$RC]"
-                    exit $RC
-                fi
-            else
-                log 'Failed to update kube-apiserver feature-gates with an unknown error'
-                exit -1
-            fi
-        else
-            RC=$?
-            log "Failed to update ${KUBEADM_CONFIGMAP_TMPFILE} with error code: [$RC]"
-            exit $RC
-        fi
-    else
-        log "Kubeadm configmap was already updated with RemoveSelfLink=false. Nothing to do."
-    fi
-
-    rm -f ${KUBEADM_CONFIGMAP_TMPFILE}
-
-}
-
-update_apiserver_configmap
-exit 0
diff --git a/kubernetes/kubernetes-unversioned/centos/kubernetes-unversioned.spec b/kubernetes/kubernetes-unversioned/centos/kubernetes-unversioned.spec
index f9944f10c..836f4c4bb 100644
--- a/kubernetes/kubernetes-unversioned/centos/kubernetes-unversioned.spec
+++ b/kubernetes/kubernetes-unversioned/centos/kubernetes-unversioned.spec
@@ -39,8 +39,6 @@ Source2: kubernetes-accounting.conf
 # kubelet config overrides parameters
 Source3: kubelet_override.yaml
 
-Source4: upgrade_k8s_config.sh
-
 Source5: sanitize_kubelet_reserved_cpus.sh
 
 Patch1: kubelet-service-remove-docker-dependency.patch
@@ -101,8 +99,6 @@ install -p -D -m 644 %{SOURCE3} %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/%{_k8s_name}/kubelet_
 
 install -d %{buildroot}%{local_sbindir}
 # install execution scripts
-install -m 700 %{SOURCE4} %{buildroot}/%{local_sbindir}/upgrade_k8s_config.sh
-
 install -m 700 %{SOURCE5} %{buildroot}/%{local_sbindir}/sanitize_kubelet_reserved_cpus.sh
 
 # install service files
@@ -123,7 +119,6 @@ install -v -p -m 0644 -t %{buildroot}/%{_sysconfdir}/systemd/system.conf.d %{SOU
 %dir %{_curr_stage2}
 
 # the following are execution scripts
-%{local_sbindir}/upgrade_k8s_config.sh
 %{local_sbindir}/sanitize_kubelet_reserved_cpus.sh
 
 # the following are symlinks
diff --git a/kubernetes/kubernetes-unversioned/debian/deb_folder/kubernetes-unversioned.install b/kubernetes/kubernetes-unversioned/debian/deb_folder/kubernetes-unversioned.install
index 0095bb10a..7975fbb5f 100644
--- a/kubernetes/kubernetes-unversioned/debian/deb_folder/kubernetes-unversioned.install
+++ b/kubernetes/kubernetes-unversioned/debian/deb_folder/kubernetes-unversioned.install
@@ -7,4 +7,3 @@ etc/kubernetes/proxy
 etc/systemd/system.conf.d/kubernetes-accounting.conf
 usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/kubernetes.conf
 usr/local/sbin/sanitize_kubelet_reserved_cpus.sh
-usr/local/sbin/upgrade_k8s_config.sh
diff --git a/kubernetes/kubernetes-unversioned/debian/deb_folder/rules b/kubernetes/kubernetes-unversioned/debian/deb_folder/rules
index 8ab58fb08..957a7ac35 100755
--- a/kubernetes/kubernetes-unversioned/debian/deb_folder/rules
+++ b/kubernetes/kubernetes-unversioned/debian/deb_folder/rules
@@ -65,7 +65,6 @@ override_dh_install:
 	# install scripts
 	install -v -m 0700 -d ${DEBIAN_DESTDIR}${_local_sbindir}
 	install -v -m 0700 -t ${DEBIAN_DESTDIR}${_local_sbindir} debian/sanitize_kubelet_reserved_cpus.sh
-	install -v -m 0700 -t ${DEBIAN_DESTDIR}${_local_sbindir} debian/upgrade_k8s_config.sh
 
 	dh_install
 
diff --git a/kubernetes/kubernetes-unversioned/debian/deb_folder/upgrade_k8s_config.sh b/kubernetes/kubernetes-unversioned/debian/deb_folder/upgrade_k8s_config.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 0b59d3890..000000000
--- a/kubernetes/kubernetes-unversioned/debian/deb_folder/upgrade_k8s_config.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,148 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-# Copyright (c) 2022 Wind River Systems, Inc.
-#
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-#
-
-# This will run during k8s upgrades as a part of the control-plane upgrade of
-# the first master. It updates the kubeadm-config configmap to edit the
-# manifests and updates feature-gates as required for the specific k8s version
-# it is upgrading to.
-#
-# The script updates feature gates for versions 1.22 and 1.24.
-# 
-# It removes below feature gates from kube-apiserver configmap while upgrading
-# k8s 1.21.8 to 1.22.5: SCTPSupport=true, HugePageStorageMediumSize=true
-# and TTLAfterFinished=true and removes RemoveSelfLink=false while upgrading
-# 1.23.1 to 1.24.4.
-#
-# Background:
-# HugePageStorageMediumSize is deprecated in Kubernetes 1.22
-# SCTPSupport blocks kube-apiserver pod to spawn after control-plane upgrade.
-# TTLAfterFinished value defaults to true from k8s 1.21
-# Kubernetes 1.24 no longer allows setting kube-apsierver feature-gate
-# RemoveSelfLink=false. All the other feature gates we were using now default
-# to true so we don't want to specify them anymore.
-
-# Temporary configuration file
-KUBEADM_CONFIGMAP_TMPFILE=$(mktemp /tmp/kubeadm_cm.yaml.XXXXXX 2>/dev/null)
-
-# Log info message to /var/log/daemon.log
-function LOG {
-    logger -p daemon.info "$0($$): " "${@}"
-}
-
-# Log error message to /var/log/daemon.log
-function ERROR {
-    logger -s -p daemon.error "$0($$): " "${@}"
-}
-
-# Cleanup and exit
-function cleanup_and_exit {
-    rm -v -f "${KUBEADM_CONFIGMAP_TMPFILE}" 2>/dev/null
-    exit "${1:-0}"
-}
-
-function get_kubeadm_configmap {
-    LOG "Retrieving kubeadm configmap: ${KUBEADM_CONFIGMAP_TMPFILE}"
-    local counter=0
-    local RETRIES=10
-    RC=0
-    until  [ ${counter} -gt ${RETRIES} ]; do
-        kubectl --kubeconfig=/etc/kubernetes/admin.conf -n kube-system get \
-            configmap kubeadm-config -o yaml > "${KUBEADM_CONFIGMAP_TMPFILE}"
-        RC=$?
-        if [ "${RC}" == "0" ] ; then
-            LOG "Kubeadm configmap retrieved."
-            break
-        fi
-        ERROR "Error retrieving kubeadm configmap, retrying..."
-        sleep 5
-        counter=$(( counter+1 ))
-    done
-
-    if [ ${counter} -gt ${RETRIES} ]; then
-        ERROR "Failed to retrieve kubeadm configmap with error code [${RC}]".
-        cleanup_and_exit ${RC}
-    fi
-}
-
-# Update feature gates for version 1.22
-function update_feature_gates_v1_22 {
-    LOG "Updating kube-apiserver feature-gates in retrieved kubeadm-config"
-
-    # Update api-server feature-gates
-    sed -i \
-    's/^\( *\)feature-gates:\s.*RemoveSelfLink=false/\1feature-gates: RemoveSelfLink=false/g' \
-    "${KUBEADM_CONFIGMAP_TMPFILE}"
-    RC=$?
-    if [ "${RC}" == "0" ]; then
-        LOG "Successfully updated kube-apiserver feature-gates in retrieved kubeadm-config"
-    else
-        ERROR "Failed to update kube-apiserver feature-gates in retrieved kubeadm-config with error code: [${RC}]"
-        cleanup_and_exit ${RC}
-    fi
-
-    # update controller-manager feature-gates
-    sed -i \
-    '/feature-gates: TTLAfterFinished=true/d' "${KUBEADM_CONFIGMAP_TMPFILE}"
-    RC=$?
-    if [ "${RC}" == "0" ]; then
-        LOG "Successfully updated controller-manager feature-gates in retrieved kubeadm-config"
-    else
-        # we need not gracefully exit here as failing to update this does not
-        # make any difference to the k8s cluster functions as default value of
-        # TTLAfterFinished is true
-        ERROR "Failed to update controller-manager feature-gates in retrieved kubeadm-config with error code: [${RC}]"
-    fi
-}
-
-function replace_configmap {
-
-    output=$(kubectl --kubeconfig=/etc/kubernetes/admin.conf replace -f "${KUBEADM_CONFIGMAP_TMPFILE}" 2>&1)
-    RC=$?
-    if [ "${RC}" == "0" ]; then
-        LOG 'Successfully replaced updated kubeadm configmap.'
-    else
-        # LP-1996546. kubectl replace expects replacing object to be latest version.
-        # Although there is low chance that kubeadm-configmap is modified by other
-        # process in between calls get_kubeadm_configmap and replace_configmap,
-        # we should still check for that error. If it is the case, then we retry
-        # modifying and replacing the newer version.
-        if [[ ${output} == *"the object has been modified; please apply your changes to the latest version and try again" ]]; then
-            LOG "kubeadm configmap is not the newest version."
-        else
-            ERROR "Failed to replace updated kubeadm configmap with error code: [${RC}]"
-            cleanup_and_exit ${RC}
-        fi
-    fi
-    return ${RC}
-}
-
-K8S_VERSION=$(kubectl version --output=yaml| grep -m1 -oP 'gitVersion: \K(\S+)')
-LOG "k8s version: ${K8S_VERSION}"
-counter=0
-RETRIES=3
-# Most errors during script execution result in exiting the script except one error.
-# If kubeadm-configmap is modified by external process after it is
-# retrieved in function get_kubeadm_configmap and before it is modified
-# and replaced in the function replace_configmap, we should retry modifying
-# and replacing the latest version.
-until  [ ${counter} -gt ${RETRIES} ]; do
-    get_kubeadm_configmap
-    if [[ "${K8S_VERSION}" == "v1.21.8" ]]; then
-        update_feature_gates_v1_22
-    else
-        LOG "No update required for kubeadm configmap"
-        break
-    fi
-    replace_configmap
-    if [ "$?" == "0" ]; then
-        break
-    else
-        LOG "Retrying to update the configmap..."
-        counter=$(( counter+1 ))
-    fi
-done
-
-cleanup_and_exit 0