diff --git a/hack/e2e-suite/basic.sh b/hack/e2e-suite/basic.sh
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-#!/bin/bash
-
-# Copyright 2014 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
-#
-# 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.
-
-# Launches a container and verifies it can be reached. Assumes that
-# we're being called by hack/e2e-test.sh (we use some env vars it sets up).
-
-set -o errexit
-set -o nounset
-set -o pipefail
-
-KUBE_ROOT=$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE}")/../..
-source "${KUBE_ROOT}/cluster/kube-env.sh"
-source "${KUBE_ROOT}/cluster/$KUBERNETES_PROVIDER/util.sh"
-
-function teardown() {
-  echo "Cleaning up test artifacts"
-  $KUBECFG stop my-hostname
-  $KUBECFG rm my-hostname
-}
-
-trap "teardown" EXIT
-
-# Determine which pod image to launch (e.g. private.sh launches a different one).
-pod_img_srv="${POD_IMG_SRV:-kubernetes/serve_hostname:1.1}"
-
-# Launch some pods.
-num_pods=2
-$KUBECFG -p 8080:9376 run "${pod_img_srv}" ${num_pods} my-hostname
-
-# List the pods.
-pod_id_list=$($KUBECFG '-template={{range.items}}{{.id}} {{end}}' -l name=my-hostname list pods)
-echo "pod_id_list: ${pod_id_list}"
-if [[ -z "${pod_id_list:-}" ]]; then
-  echo "Pod ID list is empty. It should have a set of pods to verify."
-  exit 1
-fi
-
-# Pod turn up on a clean cluster can take a while for the docker image pull.
-all_running=0
-for i in $(seq 1 24); do
-  echo "Waiting for pods to come up."
-  sleep 5
-  all_running=1
-  for id in $pod_id_list; do
-    current_status=$($KUBECFG '-template={{.currentState.status}}' get pods/$id) || true
-    if [[ "$current_status" != "Running" ]]; then
-      all_running=0
-      break
-    fi
-  done
-  if [[ "${all_running}" == 1 ]]; then
-    break
-  fi
-done
-if [[ "${all_running}" == 0 ]]; then
-  echo "Pods did not come up in time"
-  exit 1
-fi
-
-# let images stabilize
-echo "Letting images stabilize"
-sleep 5
-
-# Verify that something is listening.
-for id in ${pod_id_list}; do
-  ip=$($KUBECFG '-template={{.currentState.hostIP}}' get pods/$id)
-  echo "Trying to reach server that should be running at ${ip}:8080..."
-  server_running=0
-  for i in $(seq 1 5); do
-    echo "--- trial ${i}"
-    output=$(curl -s -connect-timeout 1 "http://${ip}:8080" || true)
-    if echo $output | grep "${id}" &> /dev/null; then
-      server_running=1
-      break
-    fi
-    sleep 2
-  done
-  if [[ "${server_running}" -ne 1 ]]; then
-    echo "Server never running at ${ip}:8080..."
-    exit 1
-  fi
-done
-
-exit 0
diff --git a/hack/e2e-suite/private.sh b/hack/e2e-suite/private.sh
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-#!/bin/bash
-
-# Copyright 2014 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-# Launches a container and verifies it can be reached. Assumes that
-# we're being called by hack/e2e-test.sh (we use some env vars it sets up).
-
-set -o errexit
-set -o nounset
-set -o pipefail
-
-KUBE_ROOT=$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE}")/../..
-source "${KUBE_ROOT}/cluster/kube-env.sh"
-source "${KUBE_ROOT}/cluster/$KUBERNETES_PROVIDER/util.sh"
-
-# Private image works only on GCE and GKE.
-if [[ "${KUBERNETES_PROVIDER}" != "gce" ]] && [[ "${KUBERNETES_PROVIDER}" != "gke" ]]; then
-  echo "WARNING: Skipping private.sh for cloud provider: ${KUBERNETES_PROVIDER}."
-  exit 0
-fi
-
-# Run the basic.sh test, but using this image.
-export POD_IMG_SRV="gcr.io/_b_k8s_test/serve_hostname:1.1"
-source "${KUBE_ROOT}/hack/e2e-suite/basic.sh"