diff --git a/manifests/site.pp b/manifests/site.pp
index a34d33ca4e..a5a5ac9d06 100644
--- a/manifests/site.pp
+++ b/manifests/site.pp
@@ -235,7 +235,6 @@ node 'puppetmaster.openstack.org' {
     jenkins_api_user                           => hiera('jenkins_api_user', 'username'),
     jenkins_api_key                            => hiera('jenkins_api_key'),
     puppetmaster_clouds                        => hiera('puppetmaster_clouds'),
-    infracloud_hpuswest_ssl_cert_file_contents => hiera('infracloud_hpuswest_ssl_cert_file_contents'),
   }
 }
 
diff --git a/modules/openstack_project/manifests/puppetmaster.pp b/modules/openstack_project/manifests/puppetmaster.pp
index 5cb3285bb1..a6dec4b59e 100644
--- a/modules/openstack_project/manifests/puppetmaster.pp
+++ b/modules/openstack_project/manifests/puppetmaster.pp
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 class openstack_project::puppetmaster (
   $jenkins_api_key,
   $puppetmaster_clouds,
-  $infracloud_hpuswest_ssl_cert_file_contents,
   $jenkins_api_user = 'hudson-openstack',
   $root_rsa_key = 'xxx',
   $puppetdb = true,
@@ -136,14 +135,6 @@ class openstack_project::puppetmaster (
     content => template('openstack_project/puppetmaster/all-clouds.yaml.erb'),
   }
 
-  file { '/etc/openstack/infracloud_west_cacert.pem':
-    ensure  => absent,
-    owner   => 'root',
-    group   => 'admin',
-    mode    => '0660',
-    content => $infracloud_hpuswest_ssl_cert_file_contents,
-  }
-
 # For puppet master apache serving.
   package { 'puppetmaster-passenger':
     ensure => present,