diff --git a/cmd/kube-apiserver/app/options/plugins.go b/cmd/kube-apiserver/app/options/plugins.go
index 1c71ac6b5c2..0e86e7cfdb5 100644
--- a/cmd/kube-apiserver/app/options/plugins.go
+++ b/cmd/kube-apiserver/app/options/plugins.go
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ func RegisterAllAdmissionPlugins(plugins *admission.Plugins) {
 	autoprovision.Register(plugins)
 	exists.Register(plugins)
 	noderestriction.Register(plugins)
-	label.Register(plugins)
+	label.Register(plugins) // DEPRECATED in favor of NewPersistentVolumeLabelController in CCM
 	podnodeselector.Register(plugins)
 	podpreset.Register(plugins)
 	podtolerationrestriction.Register(plugins)
diff --git a/plugin/pkg/admission/persistentvolume/label/BUILD b/plugin/pkg/admission/persistentvolume/label/BUILD
index cbf4432c59e..1e59fb93504 100644
--- a/plugin/pkg/admission/persistentvolume/label/BUILD
+++ b/plugin/pkg/admission/persistentvolume/label/BUILD
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ go_library(
         "//pkg/kubeapiserver/admission:go_default_library",
         "//pkg/kubelet/apis:go_default_library",
         "//pkg/volume:go_default_library",
+        "//vendor/github.com/golang/glog:go_default_library",
         "//vendor/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/admission:go_default_library",
     ],
 )
diff --git a/plugin/pkg/admission/persistentvolume/label/admission.go b/plugin/pkg/admission/persistentvolume/label/admission.go
index 86083c7d2b9..92dd76f9921 100644
--- a/plugin/pkg/admission/persistentvolume/label/admission.go
+++ b/plugin/pkg/admission/persistentvolume/label/admission.go
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import (
 	"io"
 	"sync"
 
+	"github.com/golang/glog"
 	"k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/admission"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/api"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/cloudprovider"
@@ -58,6 +59,11 @@ var _ kubeapiserveradmission.WantsCloudConfig = &persistentVolumeLabel{}
 //
 // As a side effect, the cloud provider may block invalid or non-existent volumes.
 func NewPersistentVolumeLabel() *persistentVolumeLabel {
+	// DEPRECATED: cloud-controller-manager will now start NewPersistentVolumeLabelController
+	// which does exactly what this admission controller used to do. So once GCE and AWS can
+	// run externally, we can remove this admission controller.
+	glog.Warning("PersistentVolumeLabel admission controller is deprecated. " +
+		"Please remove this controller from your configuration files and scripts.")
 	return &persistentVolumeLabel{
 		Handler: admission.NewHandler(admission.Create),
 	}