diff --git a/cluster/kube-push.sh b/cluster/kube-push.sh
index c2a5ae8cb2a..28ad9ce4af7 100755
--- a/cluster/kube-push.sh
+++ b/cluster/kube-push.sh
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ detect-master
 
 (
   echo MASTER_RELEASE_TAR=$RELEASE_NORMALIZED/master-release.tgz
-  cat $(dirname $0)/templates/download-release.sh
+  grep -v "^#" $(dirname $0)/templates/download-release.sh
   echo "echo Executing configuration"
   echo "sudo salt '*' mine.update"
   echo "sudo salt --force-color '*' state.highstate"
diff --git a/cluster/kube-up.sh b/cluster/kube-up.sh
index 4f7e7fdb57b..34770379586 100755
--- a/cluster/kube-up.sh
+++ b/cluster/kube-up.sh
@@ -62,8 +62,8 @@ HTPASSWD=$(cat ${KUBE_TEMP}/htpasswd)
   echo "MASTER_NAME=${MASTER_NAME}"
   echo "MASTER_RELEASE_TAR=${RELEASE_NORMALIZED}/master-release.tgz"
   echo "MASTER_HTPASSWD='${HTPASSWD}'"
-  cat $(dirname $0)/templates/download-release.sh
-  cat $(dirname $0)/templates/salt-master.sh
+  grep -v "^#" $(dirname $0)/templates/download-release.sh
+  grep -v "^#" $(dirname $0)/templates/salt-master.sh
 ) > ${KUBE_TEMP}/master-start.sh
 
 echo "Starting VMs and configuring firewalls"
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ for (( i=0; i<${#MINION_NAMES[@]}; i++)); do
     echo "#! /bin/bash"
     echo "MASTER_NAME=${MASTER_NAME}"
     echo "MINION_IP_RANGE=${MINION_IP_RANGES[$i]}"
-    cat $(dirname $0)/templates/salt-minion.sh
+    grep -v "^#" $(dirname $0)/templates/salt-minion.sh
   ) > ${KUBE_TEMP}/minion-start-${i}.sh
 
   gcloud compute instances create ${MINION_NAMES[$i]} \