diff --git a/attributes/default.rb b/attributes/default.rb
index fa19c39..8306ce4 100644
--- a/attributes/default.rb
+++ b/attributes/default.rb
@@ -98,7 +98,6 @@ when 'rhel'
     'agent_notification_service' => 'openstack-ceilometer-notification',
     'api_packages' => ['openstack-ceilometer-api'],
     'api_service' => 'openstack-ceilometer-api',
-    'client_packages' => ['python-ceilometerclient', 'python-gnocchiclient'],
     'collector_packages' => ['openstack-ceilometer-collector'],
     'collector_service' => 'openstack-ceilometer-collector',
     'package_overrides' => ''
@@ -120,7 +119,6 @@ when 'debian'
     'gnocchi-api_wsgi_file' => '/usr/share/gnocchi-common/app.wsgi',
     'api_packages' => ['ceilometer-api'],
     'api_service' => 'ceilometer-api',
-    'client_packages' => ['python-ceilometerclient', 'python-gnocchiclient'],
     'collector_packages' => ['ceilometer-collector', 'python-mysqldb'],
     'collector_service' => 'ceilometer-collector',
     'package_overrides' => "-o Dpkg::Options::='--force-confold' -o Dpkg::Options::='--force-confdef'"
diff --git a/recipes/client.rb b/recipes/client.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 17a905f..0000000
--- a/recipes/client.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-# encoding: UTF-8
-#
-# Cookbook Name:: openstack-telemetry
-# Recipe:: client
-#
-# Copyright 2014, IBM Corp.
-#
-# 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.
-#
-
-class ::Chef::Recipe # rubocop:disable Documentation
-  include ::Openstack
-end
-
-platform = node['openstack']['telemetry']['platform']
-platform['client_packages'].each do |pkg|
-  package pkg do
-    options platform['package_overrides']
-    action :upgrade
-  end
-end
diff --git a/spec/client-redhat_spec.rb b/spec/client-redhat_spec.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 6d0e4ad..0000000
--- a/spec/client-redhat_spec.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-# encoding: UTF-8
-
-require_relative 'spec_helper'
-
-describe 'openstack-telemetry::client' do
-  describe 'redhat' do
-    let(:runner) { ChefSpec::SoloRunner.new(REDHAT_OPTS) }
-    let(:node) { runner.node }
-    let(:chef_run) { runner.converge(described_recipe) }
-
-    it 'installs packages' do
-      expect(chef_run).to upgrade_package('python-ceilometerclient')
-    end
-  end
-end
diff --git a/spec/client_spec.rb b/spec/client_spec.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 461d5a4..0000000
--- a/spec/client_spec.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-# encoding: UTF-8
-
-require_relative 'spec_helper'
-
-describe 'openstack-telemetry::client' do
-  describe 'ubuntu' do
-    let(:runner) { ChefSpec::SoloRunner.new(UBUNTU_OPTS) }
-    let(:node) { runner.node }
-    let(:chef_run) { runner.converge(described_recipe) }
-
-    it do
-      expect(chef_run).to upgrade_package('python-ceilometerclient')
-    end
-
-    it do
-      expect(chef_run).to upgrade_package('python-gnocchiclient')
-    end
-  end
-end