diff --git a/ironic/api/app.wsgi b/ironic/api/app.wsgi
deleted file mode 100644
index d9e5c053b3..0000000000
--- a/ironic/api/app.wsgi
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-# -*- mode: python -*-
-# -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
-# not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
-# a copy of the License at
-#
-#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
-# WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
-# License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
-# under the License.
-"""
-Use this file for deploying the API service under Apache2 mod_wsgi.
-"""
-
-from ironic.api import wsgi
-
-application = wsgi.initialize_wsgi_app(show_deprecated=True)
diff --git a/ironic/api/wsgi.py b/ironic/api/wsgi.py
index 7daf19980c..851319d740 100644
--- a/ironic/api/wsgi.py
+++ b/ironic/api/wsgi.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ CONF = cfg.CONF
 LOG = log.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
-def initialize_wsgi_app(show_deprecated=False):
+def initialize_wsgi_app():
     i18n.install('ironic')
 
     service.prepare_service(sys.argv)
@@ -33,9 +33,4 @@ def initialize_wsgi_app(show_deprecated=False):
     LOG.debug("Configuration:")
     CONF.log_opt_values(LOG, log.DEBUG)
 
-    if show_deprecated:
-        LOG.warning("Using ironic/api/app.wsgi is deprecated and it will "
-                    "be removed in Rocky release. Please use automatically "
-                    "generated ironic-api-wsgi instead.")
-
     return app.VersionSelectorApplication()
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/remove-app-wsgi-d5887ca28e4b9f00.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/remove-app-wsgi-d5887ca28e4b9f00.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..563055cc01
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/remove-app-wsgi-d5887ca28e4b9f00.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+upgrade:
+  - remove deprecated ``ironic/api/app.wsgi`` script.
+    The automatically generated ``ironic-api-wsgi`` script should be used
+    instead.