diff --git a/neutron/templates/bin/_neutron-linuxbridge-agent-init.sh.tpl b/neutron/templates/bin/_neutron-linuxbridge-agent-init.sh.tpl
index 9054c8aa28..2cfc2e2ac5 100644
--- a/neutron/templates/bin/_neutron-linuxbridge-agent-init.sh.tpl
+++ b/neutron/templates/bin/_neutron-linuxbridge-agent-init.sh.tpl
@@ -18,20 +18,6 @@ limitations under the License.
 
 set -ex
 
-# configure external bridge
-external_bridge="{{- .Values.network.external_bridge -}}"
-external_interface="{{- .Values.network.interface.external -}}"
-if [ -n "${external_bridge}" ] ; then
-    # adding existing bridge would break out the script when -e is set
-    set +e
-    ip link add name $external_bridge type bridge
-    set -e
-    ip link set dev $external_bridge up
-    if [ -n "$external_interface" ] ; then
-        ip link set dev $external_interface master $external_bridge
-    fi
-fi
-
 # configure all bridge mappings defined in config
 {{- range $br, $phys := .Values.network.auto_bridge_add }}
 if [ -n "{{- $br -}}" ] ; then
diff --git a/neutron/values.yaml b/neutron/values.yaml
index 7e32d51d5a..c7b440bb5e 100644
--- a/neutron/values.yaml
+++ b/neutron/values.yaml
@@ -90,18 +90,7 @@ network:
   # allowing agents to be restarted without packet loss and simpler
   # debugging. This feature requires mount propagation support.
   share_namespaces: true
-  external_bridge: br-ex
-  ip_address: 0.0.0.0
-  interface:
-  # External interface will be automatically added to external_bridge.
-  # Tunnel interface will be used for VXLAN tunneling. If null
-  # (default) there is a fallback mechanism to search for interface
-  # with default routing.
-    external: null
-    tunnel: null
-  # auto_bridge_add is a table of "bridge: interface" pairs, by
-  # default empty
-  auto_bridge_add: {}
+  # auto_bridge_add is a table of "bridge: interface" pairs
   # To automatically add a physical interfaces to a specific bridges,
   # for example eth3 to bridge br-physnet1, if0 to br0 and iface_two
   # to br1 do something like:
@@ -110,6 +99,14 @@ network:
   #   br-physnet1: eth3
   #   br0: if0
   #   br1: iface_two
+  # br-ex will be added by default
+  auto_bridge_add:
+    br-ex: null
+  interface:
+  # Tunnel interface will be used for VXLAN tunneling. If null
+  # (default) there is a fallback mechanism to search for interface
+  # with default routing.
+    tunnel: null
   sriov:
   # To perform setup of network interfaces using the SR-IOV init
   # container you can use a section similar to:
diff --git a/openvswitch/templates/bin/_openvswitch-vswitchd.sh.tpl b/openvswitch/templates/bin/_openvswitch-vswitchd.sh.tpl
index 36fe51fdc8..94d937ce10 100644
--- a/openvswitch/templates/bin/_openvswitch-vswitchd.sh.tpl
+++ b/openvswitch/templates/bin/_openvswitch-vswitchd.sh.tpl
@@ -36,18 +36,6 @@ function start () {
 
   ovs-vsctl --no-wait show
 
-  external_bridge="{{- .Values.network.external_bridge -}}"
-  external_interface="{{- .Values.network.interface.external -}}"
-  if [ -n "${external_bridge}" ] ; then
-      # create bridge device
-      ovs-vsctl --no-wait --may-exist add-br $external_bridge
-      if [ -n "$external_interface" ] ; then
-          # add external interface to the bridge
-          ovs-vsctl --no-wait --may-exist add-port $external_bridge $external_interface
-          ip link set dev $external_interface up
-      fi
-  fi
-
   # handle any bridge mappings
   {{- range $br, $phys := .Values.network.auto_bridge_add }}
   if [ -n "{{- $br -}}" ] ; then
diff --git a/openvswitch/values.yaml b/openvswitch/values.yaml
index 111f5f1005..dd2ff659f0 100644
--- a/openvswitch/values.yaml
+++ b/openvswitch/values.yaml
@@ -38,14 +38,8 @@ labels:
     node_selector_value: enabled
 
 network:
-  external_bridge: br-ex
-  ip_address: 0.0.0.0
-  interface:
-  # External interface will be automatically added to external_bridge. Default is null.
-    external: null
   # auto_bridge_add is a table of "bridge: interface" pairs, by
   # default empty
-  auto_bridge_add: {}
   # To automatically add a physical interfaces to a specific bridges,
   # for example eth3 to bridge br-physnet1, if0 to br0 and iface_two
   # to br1 do something like:
@@ -54,6 +48,7 @@ network:
   #   br-physnet1: eth3
   #   br0: if0
   #   br1: iface_two
+  auto_bridge_add: {}
 
 pod:
   lifecycle:
diff --git a/tools/overrides/backends/networking/compute-kit-sr-iov.sh b/tools/overrides/backends/networking/compute-kit-sr-iov.sh
index 4f672debac..f6555bfe21 100755
--- a/tools/overrides/backends/networking/compute-kit-sr-iov.sh
+++ b/tools/overrides/backends/networking/compute-kit-sr-iov.sh
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ network:
         num_vfs: 32
         promisc: false
   auto_bridge_add:
+    br-ex: null
     br-physnet3: ${OVSBR}
 conf:
   neutron: