diff --git a/templates/vsphere/cluster_template.yaml b/templates/vsphere/cluster_template.yaml
index a5166b63..93ce0a2c 100644
--- a/templates/vsphere/cluster_template.yaml
+++ b/templates/vsphere/cluster_template.yaml
@@ -190,34 +190,6 @@ spec:
         owner: root:root
         path: /etc/kube-vip.hosts
         permissions: "0644"
-      - content: |
-          #!/bin/bash
-
-          # Copyright 2020 The Kubernetes Authors.
-          #
-          # 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.
-
-          set -e
-
-          # Configure the workaround required for kubeadm init with kube-vip:
-          # xref: https://github.com/kube-vip/kube-vip/issues/684
-
-          # Nothing to do for kubernetes < v1.29
-          #sed -i 's#path: /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf#path: /etc/kubernetes/super-admin.conf#' \
-          #/etc/kubernetes/manifests/kube-vip.yaml
-        owner: root:root
-        path: /etc/pre-kubeadm-commands/50-kube-vip-prepare.sh
-        permissions: "0700"
     preRunCommands:
       - hostnamectl set-hostname "{{ ds.meta_data.hostname }}"
       - echo "::1         ipv6-localhost ipv6-loopback localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6"
@@ -258,9 +230,6 @@ spec:
           >/etc/hosts
         - echo "127.0.0.1   {{ ds.meta_data.hostname }} {{ local_hostname }} localhost
           localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4" >>/etc/hosts
-        - mkdir -p /etc/pre-kubeadm-commands
-        - for script in $(find /etc/pre-kubeadm-commands/ -name '*.sh' -type f | sort);
-          do echo "Running script $script"; "$script"; done
 ---
 apiVersion: cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta1
 kind: MachineDeployment