diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 47f7e9e..11d25e1 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -18,12 +18,6 @@ IMAGE_PREFIX ?= deis
 
 include versioning.mk
 
-RC := manifests/deis-${SHORT_NAME}-rc.yaml
-SVC := manifests/deis-${SHORT_NAME}-service.yaml
-ADMIN_SEC := manifests/deis-${SHORT_NAME}-secretAdmin.yaml
-USER_SEC := manifests/deis-${SHORT_NAME}-secretUser.yaml
-# note that we are not running minio with ssl turned on. this variable is commented
-# SSL_SEC := manifests/deis-${SHORT_NAME}-secretssl-final.yaml
 MC_IMAGE := ${DEIS_REGISTRY}${IMAGE_PREFIX}/mc:${VERSION}
 MC_INTEGRATION_IMAGE := ${DEIS_REGISTRY}${IMAGE_PREFIX}/mc-integration:${VERSION}
 
@@ -52,51 +46,10 @@ docker-build: build build-server
 	# build the main image
 	docker build --rm -t ${IMAGE} rootfs
 	docker tag -f ${IMAGE} ${MUTABLE_IMAGE}
-	# These are both YAML specific
-	perl -pi -e "s|image: [a-z0-9.:]+\/deis\/${SHORT_NAME}:[0-9a-z-.]+|image: ${IMAGE}|g" ${RC}
-	perl -pi -e "s|release: [a-zA-Z0-9.+_-]+|release: ${VERSION}|g" ${RC}
 
 
 deploy: build docker-build docker-push kube-rc
 
-# TODO: would be nice to refactor all of this code into a single binary. 1/2 of it is already written in genssl/manifest_replace.go.
-# the other 1/2 is in gen.sh, and should be refactored as a few 'exec.Command' calls...
-#
-# NOTE: that we are not currently running the minio server with ssl turned on. this target is currently not used
-ssl-cert:
-	# generate ssl certs
-	docker run --rm -v "${CURDIR}":/pwd -w /pwd centurylink/openssl:0.0.1 ./genssl/gen.sh
-	# replace values in ssl secrets file
-	docker run --rm -v "${CURDIR}":/pwd -w /pwd golang:1.5.1-alpine go run ./genssl/manifest_replace.go --cert=./genssl/server.cert --key=./genssl/server.key --tpl=./manifests/deis-minio-secretssl-tpl.yaml --out=./manifests/deis-minio-secretssl-final.yaml
-
-kube-rc:
-	kubectl create -f ${RC}
-
-# note that we are not running minio with ssl turned on. the ssl related dependency and commands are commented out in this target
-kube-secrets: #ssl-cert
-	kubectl create -f ${ADMIN_SEC}
-	kubectl create -f ${USER_SEC}
-	# kubectl create -f ${SSL_SEC}
-
-# note that we are not running minio with ssl turned on. the ssl related dependency and commands are commented out in this target
-kube-clean-secrets:
-	kubectl delete secret minio-user
-	kubectl delete secret minio-admin
-	# kubectl delete secret minio-ssl
-
-kube-service: kube-secrets
-	- kubectl create -f ${SVC}
-	- kubectl create -f manifests/deis-minio-secretUser.yaml
-
-kube-clean:
-	- kubectl delete rc deis-${SHORT_NAME}-rc
-
-kube-mc:
-	kubectl create -f manifests/deis-mc-pod.yaml
-
-kube-mc-integration:
-	kubectl create -f manifests/deis-mc-integration-pod.yaml
-
 # build the minio server
 build-server:
 	docker run -e GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT=1 -e GOROOT=/usr/local/go --rm -v "${CURDIR}/server":/pwd -w /pwd golang:1.6 ./install.sh
diff --git a/manifests/README.md b/manifests/README.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a80fb2b..0000000
--- a/manifests/README.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-# Kubernetes Definitions
-
-This provides a service definition and a replication controller for
-Minio.
diff --git a/manifests/deis-mc-integration-pod.yaml b/manifests/deis-mc-integration-pod.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index d79fb7b..0000000
--- a/manifests/deis-mc-integration-pod.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-# A debugging utility for testing Minio from within k8s.
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: Pod
-metadata:
-  name: deis-mc-integration
-  labels:
-    heritage: deis
-    version: 2.0.0-beta
-spec:
-  restartPolicy: Never
-  containers:
-    - name: mc
-      imagePullPolicy: Always
-      image: quay.io/deisci/mc-integration:v2-beta
-      command:
-        - /bin/integration.sh
-      args:
-        - "mode memory limit 512MB"
-      volumeMounts:
-        - name: minio-user
-          mountPath: /var/run/secrets/deis/minio/user
-          readOnly: true
-        - name: minio-ssl
-          mountPath: /var/run/secrets/deis/minio/ssl
-          readOnly: true
-  volumes:
-    - name: minio-user
-      secret:
-        secretName: minio-user
-    - name: minio-ssl
-      secret:
-        secretName: minio-ssl
diff --git a/manifests/deis-mc-pod.yaml b/manifests/deis-mc-pod.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index a482ec8..0000000
--- a/manifests/deis-mc-pod.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-# A debugging utility for testing Minio from within k8s.
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: Pod
-metadata:
-  name: deis-mc
-  labels:
-    heritage: deis
-    version: 2.0.0-beta
-spec:
-  restartPolicy: Never
-  containers:
-    - name: mc
-      imagePullPolicy: Always
-      image: quay.io/deisci/mc:v2-beta
-      command:
-        - mc
-      args:
-        - "mode memory limit 512MB"
-      volumeMounts:
-        - name: minio-user
-          mountPath: /var/run/secrets/deis/minio/user
-          readOnly: true
-  volumes:
-    - name: minio-user
-      secret:
-        secretName: minio-user
diff --git a/manifests/deis-minio-rc.yaml b/manifests/deis-minio-rc.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 909e996..0000000
--- a/manifests/deis-minio-rc.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,66 +0,0 @@
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: ReplicationController
-metadata:
-  name: deis-minio
-  labels:
-    heritage: deis
-    release: 2.0.0-beta
-spec:
-  replicas: 1
-  selector:
-    app: deis-minio
-  template:
-    metadata:
-      labels:
-        app: deis-minio
-    spec:
-      containers:
-        - name: deis-minio
-          image: quay.io/arschles/minio:devel
-          imagePullPolicy: Always
-          env:
-            - name: HEALTH_SERVER_PORT
-              value: "8082"
-          ports:
-            - containerPort: 9000
-            - containerPort: 8082
-          livenessProbe:
-            httpGet:
-              path: /healthz
-              port: 8092
-            initialDelaySeconds: 30
-            timeoutSeconds: 1
-          readinessProbe:
-            httpGet:
-              path: /healthz
-              port: 8092
-            initialDelaySeconds: 30
-            timeoutSeconds: 1
-          command:
-            - boot
-          args:
-            # not running with ssl yet
-            # - "--cert=/var/run/secrets/deis/minio/ssl/access-cert"
-            # - "--key=/var/run/secrets/deis/minio/ssl/access-pem"
-            - "server"
-            - "/home/minio/"
-          volumeMounts:
-            - name: minio-admin
-              mountPath: /var/run/secrets/deis/minio/admin
-              readOnly: true
-            - name: minio-user
-              mountPath: /var/run/secrets/deis/minio/user
-              readOnly: true
-            # - name: minio-ssl
-            #   mountPath: /var/run/secrets/deis/minio/ssl
-            #   readOnly: true
-      volumes:
-        - name: minio-admin
-          secret:
-            secretName: minio-admin
-        - name: minio-user
-          secret:
-            secretName: minio-user
-        # - name: minio-ssl
-        #   secret:
-        #     secretName: minio-ssl
diff --git a/manifests/deis-minio-secretAdmin.yaml b/manifests/deis-minio-secretAdmin.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 902f962..0000000
--- a/manifests/deis-minio-secretAdmin.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: Secret
-metadata:
-  name: minio-admin
-  heritage: deis
-type: Opaque
-data:
-  access-key-id: YWRtaW4K
-  access-secret-key: cGRHOFJwdzBoOFF0eHliSHNNSGxrSnR6SnpaMnNDN2IyY0ZCRWduKwo=
diff --git a/manifests/deis-minio-secretUser.yaml b/manifests/deis-minio-secretUser.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 7f63b4c..0000000
--- a/manifests/deis-minio-secretUser.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: Secret
-metadata:
-  name: minio-user
-  heritage: deis
-type: Opaque
-data:
-  access-key-id: OFRaUlkySlJXTVBUNlVNWFI2STUK
-  access-secret-key: Z2JzdHJPdm90TU1jZzJzTWZHVWhBNWE2RXQvRUk1QUx0SUhzb2JZawo=
diff --git a/manifests/deis-minio-secretssl-tpl.yaml b/manifests/deis-minio-secretssl-tpl.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index c11cb3d..0000000
--- a/manifests/deis-minio-secretssl-tpl.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: Secret
-metadata:
-  name: minio-ssl
-  heritage: deis
-type: Opaque
-data:
-  # generated by make ssl-cert
-  access-cert: |
-    {{.AccessCert}}
-  # generated by make ssl-cert
-  access-pem: |
-    {{.AccessPem}}
diff --git a/manifests/deis-minio-service.yaml b/manifests/deis-minio-service.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 667e38c..0000000
--- a/manifests/deis-minio-service.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: Service
-metadata:
-  # Give this a useful name.
-  name: deis-minio
-  labels:
-    heritage: deis
-    release: 0.0.0
-spec:
-  ports:
-    - port: 9000
-      targetPort: 9000
-      name: s3
-      protocol: TCP
-  selector:
-    app: deis-minio