diff --git a/hack/e2e-suite/certs.sh b/hack/e2e-suite/certs.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}")/../..
-
-: ${KUBE_VERSION_ROOT:=${KUBE_ROOT}}
-: ${KUBECTL:="${KUBE_VERSION_ROOT}/cluster/kubectl.sh"}
-: ${KUBE_CONFIG_FILE:="config-test.sh"}
-
-export KUBECTL KUBE_CONFIG_FILE
-
-source "${KUBE_ROOT}/cluster/kube-env.sh"
-source "${KUBE_VERSION_ROOT}/cluster/${KUBERNETES_PROVIDER}/util.sh"
-
-prepare-e2e
-
-if [[ "${KUBERNETES_PROVIDER}" != "gce" ]] && [[ "${KUBERNETES_PROVIDER}" != "gke" ]]; then
-  echo "WARNING: Skipping certs.sh for cloud provider: ${KUBERNETES_PROVIDER}."
-  exit 0
-fi
-
-# Set KUBE_MASTER
-detect-master
-
-# IMPORTANT: there are upstream things that rely on these files.
-# Do *not* fix this test by changing this path, unless you _really_ know
-# what you are doing.
-for file in kubecfg.key kubecfg.crt ca.crt; do
-  echo "Checking for ${file}"
-  "${GCLOUD}" compute ssh --zone="${ZONE}" "${KUBE_MASTER}" --command "ls /srv/kubernetes/${file}"
-done