diff --git a/cmd/kubeadm/app/phases/etcd/local.go b/cmd/kubeadm/app/phases/etcd/local.go
index 5cdcb353941..c7fbc704419 100644
--- a/cmd/kubeadm/app/phases/etcd/local.go
+++ b/cmd/kubeadm/app/phases/etcd/local.go
@@ -236,9 +236,8 @@ func GetEtcdPodSpec(cfg *kubeadmapi.ClusterConfiguration, endpoint *kubeadmapi.A
 			},
 			Resources: v1.ResourceRequirements{
 				Requests: v1.ResourceList{
-					v1.ResourceCPU:              resource.MustParse("100m"),
-					v1.ResourceMemory:           resource.MustParse("100Mi"),
-					v1.ResourceEphemeralStorage: resource.MustParse("100Mi"),
+					v1.ResourceCPU:    resource.MustParse("100m"),
+					v1.ResourceMemory: resource.MustParse("100Mi"),
 				},
 			},
 			LivenessProbe: staticpodutil.LivenessProbe(probeHostname, "/health", probePort, probeScheme),