diff --git a/playbooks/roles/bifrost-ironic-install/README.md b/playbooks/roles/bifrost-ironic-install/README.md
index 40b0bf845..9075a9086 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/bifrost-ironic-install/README.md
+++ b/playbooks/roles/bifrost-ironic-install/README.md
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ In case your HW needs a kernel option to boot, set the following variable:
 extra_kernel_options: Default undefined.
 
 Hardware types can be enabled using the "enabled_hardware_types" variable,
-which defaults to "ipmi, ilo, cisco-ucs-managed, cisco-ucs-standalone".
+which defaults to "ipmi, ilo".
 
 Enabled interfaces can be set via the "enabled_boot_interfaces",
 "enabled_deploy_interfaces", "enabled_management_interfaces", and
diff --git a/playbooks/roles/bifrost-ironic-install/defaults/main.yml b/playbooks/roles/bifrost-ironic-install/defaults/main.yml
index bf23d9ebe..9ca67238c 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/bifrost-ironic-install/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/playbooks/roles/bifrost-ironic-install/defaults/main.yml
@@ -100,11 +100,11 @@ ironicinspectorclient_git_folder: /opt/stack/python-ironic-inspector-client
 staging_drivers_git_url: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/ironic-staging-drivers
 
 # TODO(TheJulia): Add redfish to this list.
-enabled_hardware_types: "ipmi,ilo,cisco-ucs-managed"
+enabled_hardware_types: "ipmi,ilo"
 default_deploy_interface: "direct"
 enabled_boot_interfaces: "ilo-virtual-media,pxe"
-enabled_management_interfaces: "ilo,ipmitool,ucsm"
-enabled_power_interfaces: "ilo,ipmitool,ucsm"
+enabled_management_interfaces: "ilo,ipmitool"
+enabled_power_interfaces: "ilo,ipmitool"
 enabled_deploy_interfaces: "iscsi,direct"
 
 # Extra pip packages to install with ironic
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/remove-ucs-drivers-37f46fa8500f9ddb.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/remove-ucs-drivers-37f46fa8500f9ddb.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ec2fa7f2d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/remove-ucs-drivers-37f46fa8500f9ddb.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+---
+fixes:
+  - |
+    Fixes default non-testing configuration to remove UCS drivers as they
+    are Python2 only being based on UcsSdk which has ceased development and
+    is no longer maintained.