diff --git a/modules/openstack_project/files/jenkins/jenkins.default b/modules/openstack_project/files/jenkins/jenkins.default
deleted file mode 100644
index ce455a6ef8..0000000000
--- a/modules/openstack_project/files/jenkins/jenkins.default
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,62 +0,0 @@
-# defaults for jenkins continuous integration server
-
-# pulled in from the init script; makes things easier.
-NAME=jenkins
-
-# location of java
-JAVA=/usr/bin/java
-
-# arguments to pass to java
-#JAVA_ARGS="-Xmx256m"
-#JAVA_ARGS="-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true" # make jenkins listen on IPv4 address
-# Disable compression as zip deflation threads eat CPU time.
-# https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-14362
-JAVA_ARGS="-Xloggc:/var/log/jenkins/gc.log -XX:+PrintGCDetails -Xmx12g -Dorg.kohsuke.stapler.compression.CompressionFilter.disabled=true -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/var/lib/jenkins/logger.conf"
-
-PIDFILE=/var/run/jenkins/jenkins.pid
-
-# user id to be invoked as (otherwise will run as root; not wise!)
-JENKINS_USER=jenkins
-
-# location of the jenkins war file
-JENKINS_WAR=/usr/share/jenkins/jenkins.war
-
-# jenkins home location
-JENKINS_HOME=/var/lib/jenkins
-
-# set this to false if you don't want Hudson to run by itself
-# in this set up, you are expected to provide a servlet container
-# to host jenkins.
-RUN_STANDALONE=true
-
-# log location.  this may be a syslog facility.priority
-JENKINS_LOG=/var/log/jenkins/$NAME.log
-#HUDSON_LOG=daemon.info
-
-# OS LIMITS SETUP
-#   comment this out to observe /etc/security/limits.conf
-#   this is on by default because http://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/commit/2fb288474e980d0e7ff9c4a3b768874835a3e92e
-#   reported that Ubuntu's PAM configuration doesn't include pam_limits.so, and as a result the # of file
-#   descriptors are forced to 1024 regardless of /etc/security/limits.conf
-MAXOPENFILES=8192
-
-# port for HTTP connector (default 8080; disable with -1)
-HTTP_PORT=8080
-
-# port for AJP connector (disabled by default)
-AJP_PORT=-1
-
-# servlet context, important if you want to use apache proxying
-PREFIX=/jenkins
-
-# arguments to pass to jenkins.
-# --javahome=$JAVA_HOME
-# --httpPort=$HTTP_PORT (default 8080; disable with -1)
-# --httpsPort=$HTTP_PORT
-# --ajp13Port=$AJP_PORT
-# --argumentsRealm.passwd.$ADMIN_USER=[password]
-# --argumentsRealm.$ADMIN_USER=admin
-# --webroot=~/.jenkins/war
-# --prefix=$PREFIX
-
-JENKINS_ARGS="--webroot=/var/cache/jenkins/war --httpPort=$HTTP_PORT --ajp13Port=$AJP_PORT"
diff --git a/modules/openstack_project/manifests/jenkins.pp b/modules/openstack_project/manifests/jenkins.pp
index ff401cebe0..496ae62d93 100644
--- a/modules/openstack_project/manifests/jenkins.pp
+++ b/modules/openstack_project/manifests/jenkins.pp
@@ -131,13 +131,5 @@ class openstack_project::jenkins (
       config_dir   => $::project_config::jenkins_job_builder_config_dir,
       require      => $::project_config::config_dir,
     }
-
-    file { '/etc/default/jenkins':
-      ensure => present,
-      owner  => 'root',
-      group  => 'root',
-      mode   => '0644',
-      source => 'puppet:///modules/openstack_project/jenkins/jenkins.default',
-    }
   }
 }
diff --git a/modules/openstack_project/manifests/jenkins_dev.pp b/modules/openstack_project/manifests/jenkins_dev.pp
index 1231e79801..142c8dc554 100644
--- a/modules/openstack_project/manifests/jenkins_dev.pp
+++ b/modules/openstack_project/manifests/jenkins_dev.pp
@@ -94,14 +94,6 @@ class openstack_project::jenkins_dev (
     version => '1.5.1',
   }
 
-  file { '/etc/default/jenkins':
-    ensure => present,
-    owner  => 'root',
-    group  => 'root',
-    mode   => '0644',
-    source => 'puppet:///modules/openstack_project/jenkins/jenkins.default',
-  }
-
   class { '::nodepool':
     mysql_root_password      => $mysql_root_password,
     mysql_password           => $mysql_password,