diff --git a/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/gce/BUILD b/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/gce/BUILD
index 2d2197e6681..800f8b2e332 100644
--- a/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/gce/BUILD
+++ b/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/gce/BUILD
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ go_library(
         "gce_disks.go",
         "gce_firewall.go",
         "gce_forwardingrule.go",
-        "gce_forwardingrule_fakes.go",
         "gce_healthchecks.go",
         "gce_instancegroup.go",
         "gce_instances.go",
@@ -117,6 +116,7 @@ go_test(
         "//vendor/google.golang.org/api/googleapi:go_default_library",
         "//vendor/k8s.io/api/core/v1:go_default_library",
         "//vendor/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1:go_default_library",
+        "//vendor/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/types:go_default_library",
         "//vendor/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/sets:go_default_library",
     ],
 )
diff --git a/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/gce/gce_forwardingrule_fakes.go b/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/gce/gce_forwardingrule_fakes.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 9c612952503..00000000000
--- a/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/gce/gce_forwardingrule_fakes.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,138 +0,0 @@
-/*
-Copyright 2017 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.
-*/
-
-package gce
-
-import (
-	"encoding/json"
-	"fmt"
-	"net/http"
-
-	computealpha "google.golang.org/api/compute/v0.alpha"
-	compute "google.golang.org/api/compute/v1"
-	"google.golang.org/api/googleapi"
-)
-
-type FakeCloudForwardingRuleService struct {
-	// fwdRulesByRegionAndName
-	// Outer key is for region string; inner key is for fwdRuleess name.
-	fwdRulesByRegionAndName map[string]map[string]*computealpha.ForwardingRule
-}
-
-// FakeCloudForwardingRuleService Implements CloudForwardingRuleService
-var _ CloudForwardingRuleService = &FakeCloudForwardingRuleService{}
-
-func NewFakeCloudForwardingRuleService() *FakeCloudForwardingRuleService {
-	return &FakeCloudForwardingRuleService{
-		fwdRulesByRegionAndName: make(map[string]map[string]*computealpha.ForwardingRule),
-	}
-}
-
-// SetRegionalForwardingRulees sets the fwdRuleesses of there region. This is used for
-// setting the test environment.
-func (f *FakeCloudForwardingRuleService) SetRegionalForwardingRulees(region string, fwdRules []*computealpha.ForwardingRule) {
-	// Reset fwdRuleesses in the region.
-	f.fwdRulesByRegionAndName[region] = make(map[string]*computealpha.ForwardingRule)
-
-	for _, fwdRule := range fwdRules {
-		f.fwdRulesByRegionAndName[region][fwdRule.Name] = fwdRule
-	}
-}
-
-func (f *FakeCloudForwardingRuleService) CreateAlphaRegionForwardingRule(fwdRule *computealpha.ForwardingRule, region string) error {
-	if _, exists := f.fwdRulesByRegionAndName[region]; !exists {
-		f.fwdRulesByRegionAndName[region] = make(map[string]*computealpha.ForwardingRule)
-	}
-
-	if _, exists := f.fwdRulesByRegionAndName[region][fwdRule.Name]; exists {
-		return &googleapi.Error{Code: http.StatusConflict}
-	}
-
-	f.fwdRulesByRegionAndName[region][fwdRule.Name] = fwdRule
-	return nil
-}
-
-func (f *FakeCloudForwardingRuleService) CreateRegionForwardingRule(fwdRule *compute.ForwardingRule, region string) error {
-	alphafwdRule := convertToAlphaForwardingRule(fwdRule)
-	return f.CreateAlphaRegionForwardingRule(alphafwdRule, region)
-}
-
-func (f *FakeCloudForwardingRuleService) DeleteRegionForwardingRule(name, region string) error {
-	if _, exists := f.fwdRulesByRegionAndName[region]; !exists {
-		return makeGoogleAPINotFoundError("")
-	}
-
-	if _, exists := f.fwdRulesByRegionAndName[region][name]; !exists {
-		return makeGoogleAPINotFoundError("")
-	}
-	delete(f.fwdRulesByRegionAndName[region], name)
-	return nil
-}
-
-func (f *FakeCloudForwardingRuleService) GetAlphaRegionForwardingRule(name, region string) (*computealpha.ForwardingRule, error) {
-	if _, exists := f.fwdRulesByRegionAndName[region]; !exists {
-		return nil, makeGoogleAPINotFoundError("")
-	}
-
-	if fwdRule, exists := f.fwdRulesByRegionAndName[region][name]; !exists {
-		return nil, makeGoogleAPINotFoundError("")
-	} else {
-		return fwdRule, nil
-	}
-}
-
-func (f *FakeCloudForwardingRuleService) GetRegionForwardingRule(name, region string) (*compute.ForwardingRule, error) {
-	fwdRule, err := f.GetAlphaRegionForwardingRule(name, region)
-	if fwdRule != nil {
-		return convertToV1ForwardingRule(fwdRule), err
-	}
-	return nil, err
-}
-
-func (f *FakeCloudForwardingRuleService) getNetworkTierFromForwardingRule(name, region string) (string, error) {
-	fwdRule, err := f.GetAlphaRegionForwardingRule(name, region)
-	if err != nil {
-		return "", err
-	}
-	return fwdRule.NetworkTier, nil
-}
-
-func convertToV1ForwardingRule(object gceObject) *compute.ForwardingRule {
-	enc, err := object.MarshalJSON()
-	if err != nil {
-		panic(fmt.Sprintf("Failed to encode to json: %v", err))
-	}
-	var fwdRule compute.ForwardingRule
-	if err := json.Unmarshal(enc, &fwdRule); err != nil {
-		panic(fmt.Sprintf("Failed to convert GCE apiObject %v to v1 fwdRuleess: %v", object, err))
-	}
-	return &fwdRule
-}
-
-func convertToAlphaForwardingRule(object gceObject) *computealpha.ForwardingRule {
-	enc, err := object.MarshalJSON()
-	if err != nil {
-		panic(fmt.Sprintf("Failed to encode to json: %v", err))
-	}
-	var fwdRule computealpha.ForwardingRule
-	if err := json.Unmarshal(enc, &fwdRule); err != nil {
-		panic(fmt.Sprintf("Failed to convert GCE apiObject %v to alpha fwdRuleess: %v", object, err))
-	}
-	// Set the default values for the Alpha fields.
-	fwdRule.NetworkTier = NetworkTierDefault.ToGCEValue()
-
-	return &fwdRule
-}