diff --git a/puppet-manifests/src/modules/platform/lib/facter/disable_worker_services.rb b/puppet-manifests/src/modules/platform/lib/facter/disable_worker_services.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 8c40aa1e..00000000
--- a/puppet-manifests/src/modules/platform/lib/facter/disable_worker_services.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-# Returns true if worker services should be disabled
-
-Facter.add("disable_worker_services") do
-  setcode do
-    File.exist?('/var/run/.disable_worker_services')
-  end
-end
diff --git a/puppet-manifests/src/modules/platform/manifests/kubernetes.pp b/puppet-manifests/src/modules/platform/manifests/kubernetes.pp
index 2ed49b85..8c03f159 100644
--- a/puppet-manifests/src/modules/platform/manifests/kubernetes.pp
+++ b/puppet-manifests/src/modules/platform/manifests/kubernetes.pp
@@ -598,10 +598,6 @@ class platform::kubernetes::worker
     }
   }
 
-  file { '/var/run/.disable_worker_services':
-    ensure  => file,
-    replace => no,
-  }
   # TODO: The following exec is a workaround. Once kubernetes becomes the
   # default installation, /etc/pmon.d/libvirtd.conf needs to be removed from
   # the load.