diff --git a/roles/kubernetes/node/files/fluentd-es.yaml b/roles/kubernetes/node/files/fluentd-es.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index caf90526c..000000000
--- a/roles/kubernetes/node/files/fluentd-es.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: Pod
-metadata:
-  name: fluentd-elasticsearch
-  namespace: kube-system
-spec:
-  containers:
-  - name: fluentd-elasticsearch
-    image: gcr.io/google_containers/fluentd-elasticsearch:1.11
-    resources:
-      limits:
-        cpu: 100m
-    args:
-    - -qq
-    volumeMounts:
-    - name: varlog
-      mountPath: /var/log
-    - name: varlibdockercontainers
-      mountPath: /var/lib/docker/containers
-      readOnly: true
-  terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 30
-  volumes:
-  - name: varlog
-    hostPath:
-      path: /var/log
-  - name: varlibdockercontainers
-    hostPath:
-      path: /var/lib/docker/containers
-
diff --git a/roles/kubernetes/node/tasks/config.yml b/roles/kubernetes/node/tasks/config.yml
index 91658329d..3fd139e7b 100644
--- a/roles/kubernetes/node/tasks/config.yml
+++ b/roles/kubernetes/node/tasks/config.yml
@@ -53,9 +53,3 @@
     name: kube-proxy
     enabled: yes
     state: started
-
-- name: addons | Logging | Create Fluentd pod
-  copy:
-    src: fluentd-es.yaml
-    dest: "{{ kube_manifest_dir }}/fluentd-es.yaml"
-  when: enable_logging