diff --git a/cluster/saltbase/salt/docker/docker-init b/cluster/saltbase/salt/docker/docker-init
deleted file mode 100755
index 18c7c5c4523..00000000000
--- a/cluster/saltbase/salt/docker/docker-init
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,149 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-### BEGIN INIT INFO
-# Provides:           docker
-# Required-Start:     $syslog $remote_fs
-# Required-Stop:      $syslog $remote_fs
-# Default-Start:      2 3 4 5
-# Default-Stop:       0 1 6
-# Short-Description:  Create lightweight, portable, self-sufficient containers.
-# Description:
-#  Docker is an open-source project to easily create lightweight, portable,
-#  self-sufficient containers from any application. The same container that a
-#  developer builds and tests on a laptop can run at scale, in production, on
-#  VMs, bare metal, OpenStack clusters, public clouds and more.
-### END INIT INFO
-
-export PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin
-
-BASE=$(basename $0)
-
-# modify these in /etc/default/$BASE (/etc/default/docker)
-# HACK: DOCKER overridable to allow image builder to run this, too.
-DOCKER=${DOCKER:-/usr/bin/$BASE}
-DOCKER_PIDFILE=/var/run/$BASE.pid
-DOCKER_LOGFILE=/var/log/$BASE.log
-DOCKER_OPTS=
-DOCKER_DESC="Docker"
-
-# Get lsb functions
-. /lib/lsb/init-functions
-
-if [ -f /etc/default/$BASE ]; then
-	. /etc/default/$BASE
-fi
-
-# see also init_is_upstart in /lib/lsb/init-functions (which isn't available in Ubuntu 12.04, or we'd use it)
-if [ -x /sbin/initctl ] && /sbin/initctl version 2>/dev/null | grep -q upstart; then
-	log_failure_msg "$DOCKER_DESC is managed via upstart, try using service $BASE $1"
-	exit 1
-fi
-
-# Check docker is present
-if [ ! -x $DOCKER ]; then
-	log_failure_msg "$DOCKER not present or not executable"
-	exit 1
-fi
-
-fail_unless_root() {
-	if [ "$(id -u)" != '0' ]; then
-		log_failure_msg "$DOCKER_DESC must be run as root"
-		exit 1
-	fi
-}
-
-cgroupfs_mount() {
-	# see also https://github.com/tianon/cgroupfs-mount/blob/master/cgroupfs-mount
-	if grep -v '^#' /etc/fstab | grep -q cgroup \
-		|| [ ! -e /proc/cgroups ] \
-		|| [ ! -d /sys/fs/cgroup ]; then
-		return
-	fi
-	if ! mountpoint -q /sys/fs/cgroup; then
-		mount -t tmpfs -o uid=0,gid=0,mode=0755 cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup
-	fi
-	(
-		cd /sys/fs/cgroup
-		for sys in $(awk '!/^#/ { if ($4 == 1) print $1 }' /proc/cgroups); do
-			mkdir -p $sys
-			if ! mountpoint -q $sys; then
-				if ! mount -n -t cgroup -o $sys cgroup $sys; then
-					rmdir $sys || true
-				fi
-			fi
-		done
-	)
-}
-
-case "$1" in
-	mount)  # HACK: Used in image build
-		fail_unless_root
-
-		cgroupfs_mount
-
-		log_end_msg $?
-		;;
-
-	start)
-		fail_unless_root
-
-		cgroupfs_mount
-
-		# TODO: Find a better place to do this!
-		echo 1 > /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/memory.use_hierarchy
-
-		touch "$DOCKER_LOGFILE"
-		chgrp docker "$DOCKER_LOGFILE"
-
-		if [ -n "$DOCKER_NOFILE" ]; then
-			ulimit -n $DOCKER_NOFILE
-		fi
-
-		if [ -n "$DOCKER_LOCKEDMEMORY" ]; then
-			ulimit -l $DOCKER_LOCKEDMEMORY
-		fi
-
-		log_begin_msg "Starting $DOCKER_DESC: $BASE"
-		start-stop-daemon --start --background \
-			--no-close \
-			--exec "$DOCKER" \
-			--pidfile "$DOCKER_PIDFILE" \
-			-- \
-				daemon -p "$DOCKER_PIDFILE" \
-				$DOCKER_OPTS \
-					>> "$DOCKER_LOGFILE" 2>&1
-		log_end_msg $?
-		;;
-
-	stop)
-		fail_unless_root
-		log_begin_msg "Stopping $DOCKER_DESC: $BASE"
-		start-stop-daemon --stop --pidfile "$DOCKER_PIDFILE"
-		log_end_msg $?
-		;;
-
-	restart)
-		fail_unless_root
-		docker_pid=`cat "$DOCKER_PIDFILE" 2>/dev/null`
-		[ -n "$docker_pid" ] \
-			&& ps -p $docker_pid > /dev/null 2>&1 \
-			&& $0 stop
-		$0 start
-		;;
-
-	force-reload)
-		fail_unless_root
-		$0 restart
-		;;
-
-	status)
-		status_of_proc -p "$DOCKER_PIDFILE" "$DOCKER" docker
-		;;
-
-	*)
-		echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}"
-		exit 1
-		;;
-esac
-
-exit 0
diff --git a/cluster/saltbase/salt/docker/init.sls b/cluster/saltbase/salt/docker/init.sls
index 6e1f5a85739..493ea6a77eb 100644
--- a/cluster/saltbase/salt/docker/init.sls
+++ b/cluster/saltbase/salt/docker/init.sls
@@ -162,15 +162,6 @@ docker:
   file.replace:
     - pattern: '^net.ipv4.ip_forward=0'
     - repl: '# net.ipv4.ip_forward=0'
-
-/etc/init.d/docker:
-  file.managed:
-    - source: salt://docker/docker-init
-    - template: jinja
-    - user: root
-    - group: root
-    - mode: 755
-    - makedirs: true
 {% endif %}
 
 # Work around Salt #18089: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/18089