diff --git a/nodepool/elements/infra-package-needs/install.d/10-pip-packages b/nodepool/elements/infra-package-needs/install.d/10-pip-packages
deleted file mode 100755
index b4b9611fd8..0000000000
--- a/nodepool/elements/infra-package-needs/install.d/10-pip-packages
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-#
-# 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.
-
-# dib-lint: disable=setu setpipefail
-if [ ${DIB_DEBUG_TRACE:-0} -gt 0 ]; then
-    set -x
-fi
-set -e
-
-# NOTE(ianw) 2020-03-11 : for testing images without the
-# pip-and-virtualenv element or any global installs of tools using
-# these, skip this.
-if [ -z ${DIB_PYTHON_PIP+x} ]; then
-    exit 0
-fi
-
-packages='tox'
-
-# non-system root installed packages can interfere with things
-if [ "${DISTRO_NAME}" != "gentoo" ]; then
-    for package in $packages ; do
-        $DIB_PYTHON_PIP install $package
-    done
-fi
diff --git a/nodepool/elements/infra-package-needs/install.d/40-install-tox b/nodepool/elements/infra-package-needs/install.d/40-install-tox
deleted file mode 100755
index a9757bef61..0000000000
--- a/nodepool/elements/infra-package-needs/install.d/40-install-tox
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-# Copyright (C) 2015 OpenStack Foundation
-#
-# 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.
-#
-# Install tox into a virtualenv
-# This is in /usr instead of /usr/local due to this bug on precise:
-# https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python2.7/+bug/839588
-
-# dib-lint: disable=setu setpipefail
-if [ ${DIB_DEBUG_TRACE:-0} -gt 0 ]; then
-    set -x
-fi
-set -e
-
-python3 -m venv /usr/tox-env
-if [[ ${DIB_RELEASE} == 'xenial' ]]; then
-    # The pip on xenial can't figure out it shouldn't install
-    # the latest pip; this is the last to support 3.5
-    /usr/tox-env/bin/pip install --upgrade pip==20.3.4
-else
-    /usr/tox-env/bin/pip install --upgrade pip
-fi
-/usr/tox-env/bin/pip install tox
diff --git a/nodepool/elements/infra-package-needs/package-installs.yaml b/nodepool/elements/infra-package-needs/package-installs.yaml
index d1982e99a7..3bf1a69362 100644
--- a/nodepool/elements/infra-package-needs/package-installs.yaml
+++ b/nodepool/elements/infra-package-needs/package-installs.yaml
@@ -25,5 +25,4 @@ haveged:
 iptables:
 redhat-rpm-config:
 redhat-lsb-core:
-tox:
 gnupg2:
diff --git a/nodepool/elements/infra-package-needs/pkg-map b/nodepool/elements/infra-package-needs/pkg-map
index 0cfdad1ca3..da1519137d 100644
--- a/nodepool/elements/infra-package-needs/pkg-map
+++ b/nodepool/elements/infra-package-needs/pkg-map
@@ -69,7 +69,6 @@
       "ntp": "net-misc/ntp",
       "ntpdate": "net-misc/ntp",
       "python3-dev": "",
-      "tox": "dev-python/tox",
       "traceroute": "net-analyzer/traceroute",
       "uuid-runtime": ""
     }
@@ -103,7 +102,6 @@
     "iptables": "iptables-persistent",
     "gentoolkit": "",
     "redhat-rpm-config": "",
-    "redhat-lsb-core": "",
-    "tox": ""
+    "redhat-lsb-core": ""
   }
 }