diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/apiextensions-apiserver/examples/client-go/hack/update-codegen.sh b/staging/src/k8s.io/apiextensions-apiserver/examples/client-go/hack/update-codegen.sh
index 577c4e6b9f0..e3d87c3f10e 100755
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/apiextensions-apiserver/examples/client-go/hack/update-codegen.sh
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/apiextensions-apiserver/examples/client-go/hack/update-codegen.sh
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ CODEGEN_PKG=${CODEGEN_PKG:-$(cd "${SCRIPT_ROOT}"; ls -d -1 ./vendor/k8s.io/code-
 # --output-base    because this script should also be able to run inside the vendor dir of
 #                  k8s.io/kubernetes. The output-base is needed for the generators to output into the vendor dir
 #                  instead of the $GOPATH directly. For normal projects this can be dropped.
-"${CODEGEN_PKG}/generate-groups.sh" all \
+"${CODEGEN_PKG}/generate-groups.sh" "applyconfiguration,client,deepcopy,informer,lister" \
   k8s.io/apiextensions-apiserver/examples/client-go/pkg/client \
   k8s.io/apiextensions-apiserver/examples/client-go/pkg/apis \
   cr:v1 \
diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/code-generator/generate-groups.sh b/staging/src/k8s.io/code-generator/generate-groups.sh
index a511ef17284..8e993294c63 100755
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/code-generator/generate-groups.sh
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/code-generator/generate-groups.sh
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ if [ "$#" -lt 4 ] || [ "${1}" == "--help" ]; then
   cat <<EOF
 Usage: $(basename "$0") <generators> <output-package> <apis-package> <groups-versions> ...
 
-  <generators>        the generators comma separated to run (deepcopy,defaulter,applyconfiguration,client,lister,informer) or "all".
+  <generators>        the generators comma separated to run (deepcopy,applyconfiguration,client,lister,informer) or "all".
   <output-package>    the output package name (e.g. github.com/example/project/pkg/generated).
   <apis-package>      the external types dir (e.g. github.com/example/api or github.com/example/project/pkg/apis).
   <groups-versions>   the groups and their versions in the format "groupA:v1,v2 groupB:v1 groupC:v2", relative
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ shift 4
   # To support running this script from anywhere, first cd into this directory,
   # and then install with forced module mode on and fully qualified name.
   cd "$(dirname "${0}")"
-  GO111MODULE=on go install k8s.io/code-generator/cmd/{applyconfiguration-gen,defaulter-gen,client-gen,lister-gen,informer-gen,deepcopy-gen}
+  GO111MODULE=on go install k8s.io/code-generator/cmd/{applyconfiguration-gen,client-gen,lister-gen,informer-gen,deepcopy-gen}
 )
 # Go installs the above commands to get installed in $GOBIN if defined, and $GOPATH/bin otherwise:
 GOBIN="$(go env GOBIN)"
diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/code-generator/hack/update-codegen.sh b/staging/src/k8s.io/code-generator/hack/update-codegen.sh
index ce0f073a61a..ff4dd288aa2 100755
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/code-generator/hack/update-codegen.sh
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/code-generator/hack/update-codegen.sh
@@ -24,26 +24,26 @@ SCRIPT_ROOT=$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/..
 # - --output-base because this script should also be able to run inside the vendor dir of
 #   k8s.io/kubernetes. The output-base is needed for the generators to output into the vendor dir
 #   instead of the $GOPATH directly. For normal projects this can be dropped.
-"${SCRIPT_ROOT}/generate-internal-groups.sh" all \
+"${SCRIPT_ROOT}/generate-internal-groups.sh" "client,conversion,deepcopy,defaulter,informer,lister,openapi" \
   k8s.io/code-generator/examples/apiserver \
   k8s.io/code-generator/examples/apiserver/apis \
   k8s.io/code-generator/examples/apiserver/apis \
   "example:v1 example2:v1 example3.io:v1" \
   --output-base "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/../../.." \
   --go-header-file "${SCRIPT_ROOT}/hack/boilerplate.go.txt"
-"${SCRIPT_ROOT}/generate-groups.sh" all \
+"${SCRIPT_ROOT}/generate-groups.sh" "applyconfiguration,client,deepcopy,informer,lister" \
   k8s.io/code-generator/examples/crd \
   k8s.io/code-generator/examples/crd/apis \
   "example:v1 example2:v1" \
   --output-base "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/../../.." \
   --go-header-file "${SCRIPT_ROOT}/hack/boilerplate.go.txt"
-"${SCRIPT_ROOT}/generate-groups.sh" all \
+"${SCRIPT_ROOT}/generate-groups.sh" "applyconfiguration,client,deepcopy,informer,lister" \
   k8s.io/code-generator/examples/MixedCase \
   k8s.io/code-generator/examples/MixedCase/apis \
   "example:v1" \
   --output-base "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/../../.." \
   --go-header-file "${SCRIPT_ROOT}/hack/boilerplate.go.txt"
-"${SCRIPT_ROOT}/generate-groups.sh" all \
+"${SCRIPT_ROOT}/generate-groups.sh" "applyconfiguration,client,deepcopy,informer,lister" \
   k8s.io/code-generator/examples/HyphenGroup \
   k8s.io/code-generator/examples/HyphenGroup/apis \
   "example:v1" \
diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/sample-apiserver/hack/update-codegen.sh b/staging/src/k8s.io/sample-apiserver/hack/update-codegen.sh
index 9fd4e236dc0..c3b4e45659d 100755
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/sample-apiserver/hack/update-codegen.sh
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/sample-apiserver/hack/update-codegen.sh
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ CODEGEN_PKG=${CODEGEN_PKG:-$(cd "${SCRIPT_ROOT}"; ls -d -1 ./vendor/k8s.io/code-
 # --output-base    because this script should also be able to run inside the vendor dir of
 #                  k8s.io/kubernetes. The output-base is needed for the generators to output into the vendor dir
 #                  instead of the $GOPATH directly. For normal projects this can be dropped.
-"${CODEGEN_PKG}/generate-groups.sh" all \
+"${CODEGEN_PKG}/generate-groups.sh" "applyconfiguration,client,deepcopy,informer,lister" \
   k8s.io/sample-apiserver/pkg/generated \
   k8s.io/sample-apiserver/pkg/apis \
   "wardle:v1alpha1,v1beta1" \