diff --git a/nix/docker.nix b/nix/docker.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 53935f9c14..0000000000
--- a/nix/docker.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-# defines a derivation that builds a minimal docker image containing aleph-node and its src folder
-{
-  # when keepDebugInfo = true, created docker image includes `all` dependencies
-  # and image weights > 490MB instead of < 100MB
-  alephArgs ? { keepDebugInfo = false; }
-}:
-let
-  versions = import ./versions.nix;
-  nixpkgs = versions.nixpkgs;
-
-  alephNode = import ../default.nix alephArgs;
-  dockerEntrypointScript = (nixpkgs.writeScriptBin "docker_entrypoint.sh" (builtins.readFile ../docker/docker_entrypoint.sh)).overrideAttrs(old: {
-    buildCommand = ''
-      ${old.buildCommand}
-      # fixes #! /usr/bin/env bash preamble
-      patchShebangs $out
-    '';
-  });
-in
-nixpkgs.dockerTools.buildImage {
-  name = "aleph-node";
-  created = "now";
-  contents = [alephNode dockerEntrypointScript nixpkgs.bash nixpkgs.coreutils];
-  config = {
-    Env = [
-      "PATH=${alephNode}/bin:${dockerEntrypointScript}/bin:${nixpkgs.bash}/bin:${nixpkgs.coreutils}/bin"
-    ];
-    Entrypoint = "${dockerEntrypointScript}/bin/docker_entrypoint.sh";
-    ExposedPorts = {
-      "30333" = {};
-      "9933" = {};
-      "9944" = {};
-    };
-  };
-}