diff --git a/cluster/saltbase/salt/kubelet/kubelet.service b/cluster/saltbase/salt/kubelet/kubelet.service
index e5ffdb0804d..0c5b653e503 100644
--- a/cluster/saltbase/salt/kubelet/kubelet.service
+++ b/cluster/saltbase/salt/kubelet/kubelet.service
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 [Unit]
 Description=Kubernetes Kubelet Server
 Documentation=https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes
-After=docker.service
-Requires=docker.service
 
 [Service]
 EnvironmentFile=/etc/sysconfig/kubelet