diff --git a/defaults/main.yml b/defaults/main.yml
index f460c2a9..a593a8db 100644
--- a/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/defaults/main.yml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ tempest_package_state: "latest"
 tempest_pip_package_state: "latest"
 
 # Toggle whether tempest actually executes
-tempest_run: False
+tempest_run: yes
 
 tempest_git_repo: https://git.openstack.org/openstack/tempest
 tempest_git_install_branch: master
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/tempest-remove-old-run-script-4365fa3b091169d8.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/tempest-remove-old-run-script-4365fa3b091169d8.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..002c5761
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/tempest-remove-old-run-script-4365fa3b091169d8.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+---
+upgrade:
+  - The ``openstack_tempest_gate.sh`` script has been removed
+    as it requires the use of the ``run_tempest.sh`` script
+    which has been deprecated in Tempest. In order to
+    facilitate the switch, the default for the variable
+    ``tempest_run`` has been set to ``yes``, forcing the role
+    to execute tempest by default. This default can be changed
+    by overriding the value to ``no``. The test whitelist may
+    be set through the list variable ``tempest_test_whitelist``.
diff --git a/tasks/tempest_install.yml b/tasks/tempest_install.yml
index 227fe4dd..8024131b 100644
--- a/tasks/tempest_install.yml
+++ b/tasks/tempest_install.yml
@@ -13,13 +13,7 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
-- include: tempest_install_apt.yml
-  static: no
-  when: ansible_pkg_mgr == 'apt'
-
-- include: tempest_install_yum.yml
-  static: no
-  when: ansible_pkg_mgr == 'yum'
+- include: "tempest_install_{{ ansible_pkg_mgr }}.yml"
 
 - name: Create developer mode constraint file
   copy:
@@ -56,26 +50,6 @@
     state: absent
   when: tempest_get_venv | changed
 
-# TODO(odyssey4me):
-# Once the execution of tempest no longer uses run_tempest.sh
-# then this task may be removed. This task only executes when
-# the variable 'tempest_run' is a boolean false, which will be
-# the case in roles which are using the legacy method.
-- name: Get tempest from git
-  git:
-    repo: "{{ tempest_git_repo }}"
-    dest: "{{ tempest_venv_bin | dirname }}"
-    version: "{{ tempest_git_install_branch }}"
-    clone: "yes"
-    update: "yes"
-    accept_hostkey: "yes"
-    force: "yes"
-  when: not tempest_run | bool
-  register: git_clone
-  until: git_clone | success
-  retries: 5
-  delay: 2
-
 - name: Create tempest venv dir
   file:
     path: "{{ tempest_venv_bin | dirname }}"
diff --git a/tasks/tempest_post_install.yml b/tasks/tempest_post_install.yml
index 74a8e90e..7e80eb4b 100644
--- a/tasks/tempest_post_install.yml
+++ b/tasks/tempest_post_install.yml
@@ -31,10 +31,6 @@
   set_fact:
     tempest_admin_tenant_id: "{{ keystone_facts.id }}"
 
-# TODO(odyssey4me):
-# Remove the creation of the etc and lock directories
-# when all consumers of this role are no longer using
-# the old execution method.
 - name: Create tempest directories
   file:
     path: "{{ item.path }}"
@@ -43,11 +39,8 @@
     group: "root"
     mode: "{{ item.mode|default('0755') }}"
   with_items:
-    - path: "{{ tempest_venv_bin | dirname }}/locks"
-      mode: "0777"
     - path: "{{ tempest_log_dir }}"
     - path: "{{ ansible_env.HOME }}/.tempest/etc"
-    - path: "{{ tempest_venv_bin | dirname }}/etc"
     - path: "{{ tempest_image_dir }}"
 
 - name: Image(s) download
@@ -58,21 +51,15 @@
   with_items: "{{ tempest_images }}"
   when: tempest_service_available_glance | bool
 
-# TODO(odyssey4me):
-# Remove the placement to /opt/tempest/etc/ when all
-# consumers of the role are no longer using the old method.
 - name: Copy tempest config
   config_template:
     src: "tempest.conf.j2"
-    dest: "{{ item }}"
+    dest: "{{ ansible_env.HOME }}/.tempest/etc/tempest.conf"
     owner: "root"
     group: "root"
     mode: "0644"
     config_overrides: "{{ tempest_tempest_conf_overrides }}"
     config_type: "ini"
-  with_items:
-    - "{{ tempest_venv_bin | dirname }}/etc/tempest.conf"
-    - "{{ ansible_env.HOME }}/.tempest/etc/tempest.conf"
 
 - name: Initialise tempest workspace
   shell: |
@@ -102,11 +89,3 @@
       {%   endif %}
       {% endfor %}
     dest: "{{ tempest_test_whitelist_file_path }}"
-
-- name: Generate tempest Config
-  template:
-    src: "openstack_tempest_gate.sh.j2"
-    dest: "/opt/openstack_tempest_gate.sh"
-    owner: "root"
-    group: "root"
-    mode: "0755"
diff --git a/templates/openstack_tempest_gate.sh.j2 b/templates/openstack_tempest_gate.sh.j2
deleted file mode 100644
index 28e1b227..00000000
--- a/templates/openstack_tempest_gate.sh.j2
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,222 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-# Copyright 2014, Rackspace US, Inc.
-#
-# 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.
-
-# Script for running gate tests. Initially very sparse
-# additional projects and test types will be added over time.
-
-
-# -------------------- Shell Options -------------------------
-set -x
-
-
-# -------------------- Parameters -------------------------
-# The only parameters this script takes is the names of the test lists
-# to use:
-# ./$0 <test_list_name> ...
-#
-# If a name is not supplied scenario will be used.
-# If multiple lists are given, the resulting tests are combined and
-# duplicates are removed.
-
-test_lists=${*:-scenario}
-testr_output_lines=${testr_output_lines:-100}
-RUN_TEMPEST_OPTS=${RUN_TEMPEST_OPTS:-''}
-TESTR_OPTS=${TESTR_OPTS:-''}
-
-
-# -------------------- Functions -------------------------
-# Test list functions. Each tempest test scenario (eg scenario, api, smoke,
-# defcore) should have a function here to generate the list of tests that
-# should be run. Each function takes in the full list of tempest tests and
-# should output a filtered list.
-
-function gen_test_list_api {
-  # filter test list to produce list of tests to use.
-  egrep 'tempest\.api\.(identity|image|volume|network|compute|object_storage)'\
-    |grep -vi xml
-}
-
-# Run selected scenario tests
-function gen_test_list_scenario {
-  # network tests have been removed due to
-  # https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-ansible/+bug/1425255
-  # TODO: add them back once the bug has been fixed
-  egrep 'tempest\.scenario\.test_(minimum|swift|server|dashboard)_basic(_ops)?'
-}
-
-# Run heat-api tests
-function gen_test_list_heat_api {
-  # basic orchestration api tests
-  egrep 'tempest\.api\.orchestration\.stacks\.test_non_empty_stack'
-}
-
-# Run cinder backup api tests
-function gen_test_list_cinder_backup {
-  egrep 'tempest\.api\.volume\.admin\.test_volumes_backup'
-}
-
-# Run the cinder multi-backend tests
-function gen_test_list_cinder_multi_backend {
-  egrep 'tempest\.api\.volume\.admin\.test_multi_backend'
-}
-
-# Run ceilometer api tests
-function gen_test_list_ceilometer_api {
-  egrep 'tempest\.api\.telemetry'
-}
-
-# Run smoke tests
-function gen_test_list_smoke {
-  # this specific test fails frequently and is making our multi node nightly
-  # job unstable (see bug in gen_test_list_scenario function)
-  # TODO: re-add back in once the specific issue is identified and corrected
-  grep smoke | grep -v tempest.scenario.test_network_basic_ops.TestNetworkBasicOps.test_update_router_admin_state
-}
-
-# Run designate scenario tests
-function gen_test_list_designate_scenario {
-  egrep 'designate_tempest_plugin\.tests\.scenario'
-}
-
-# Run all tests
-function gen_test_list_all {
-  cat
-}
-
-# Generate test list from official defcore/refstack spec
-function gen_test_list_defcore {
-  branch=${1:-kilo}
-  string=$(python <<END
-import json
-import requests
-
-branch="$branch"
-map = {
-    'kilo': '2016.01',
-    'liberty': '2016.01'
-}
-
-url=("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openstack/"
-     "defcore/master/%(version)s.json"
-     % {'version': map[branch]}
-     )
-response = requests.get(url)
-for capability in response.json()['capabilities'].values():
-  for test in capability['tests']:
-    print test
-END
-)
-
-  read -a test_list <<<$string
-  parse_cmd="grep "
-  for item in ${test_list[@]}; do
-    parse_cmd+="-e $item "
-  done
-
-  $parse_cmd
-}
-
-# defcore tests for kilo
-function gen_test_list_defcore_kilo {
-  gen_test_list_defcore kilo
-}
-
-# defcore tests for liberty
-function gen_test_list_defcore_liberty {
-  gen_test_list_defcore liberty
-}
-
-function exit_msg {
-  echo $1
-  exit $2
-}
-
-
-# -------------------- Main -------------------------
-
-available_test_lists=$(compgen -A function|sed -n '/^gen_test_list_/s/gen_test_list_//p')
-
-for test_list_name in $test_lists; do
-  grep $test_list_name <<<$available_test_lists ||\
-    exit_msg "$test_list_name is not a valid test list, available test lists: $available_test_lists" 1
-done
-
-# work in tempest directory
-pushd {{ tempest_venv_bin | dirname }}
-
-# Load the tempest venv for a tempest run
-source {{ tempest_venv_bin | dirname }}/bin/activate
-
-# read creds into environment
-source /root/openrc
-
-# create testr repo - required for testr to do anything
-testr init &>/dev/null ||:
-
-# Get list of available tests.
-# lines 1-$testr_output_lines are output to stdout, all lines are written to
-# full_test_list.
-set -o pipefail
-testr list-tests |tee >(sed -n 1,${testr_output_lines}p) >full_test_list ||\
-  exit_msg "Failed to generate test list" $?
-set +o pipefail
-
-# Check the full test list is not empty
-[[ -s full_test_list ]] || exit_msg "No tests found" 1
-
-# Write filter test list using selected function. The full test list is
-# pre-filtered to only include test lines, this saves adding that filter to
-# every test list function.
-truncate --size 0 tmp_test_list
-for test_list_name in ${test_lists}; do
-  egrep '^(tempest|.*_tempest_plugin)\.' < full_test_list \
-    | gen_test_list_${test_list_name} >> tmp_test_list \
-    || exit_msg "Filter $test_list_name failed. Output: $(cat test_list)" 1
-done
-
-# Eliminate duplicate tests
-awk '!seen[$0]++' tmp_test_list > test_list
-rm tmp_test_list
-
-# Check the filtered test list is not empty
-[[ -s test_list ]] || exit_msg "No tests remain after filtering" 1
-
-test_list_summary="${test_lists} ($(wc -l <test_list) tests)"
-
-echo "Using test list $test_list_summary"
-
-# execute chosen tests with pretty output
-./run_tempest.sh --no-virtual-env ${RUN_TEMPEST_OPTS} -- --load-list test_list ${TESTR_OPTS};
-result=$?
-
-# Create junit xml report from test results
-testr last --subunit | subunit2junitxml > tempest_results.xml
-cp tempest_results.xml /tmp
-if [ -d "{{ tempest_log_dir }}" ];then
-  # Copy the log to the tempest_log_dir logging directory
-  cp tempest_results.xml {{ tempest_log_dir }}/tempest_results_$(date +%Y%d%m-%H%M%S).xml
-fi
-popd
-
-if [[ $result == 0 ]]; then
-  echo "TEMPEST PASS $test_list_summary"
-else
-  echo "TEMPEST FAIL $test_list_summary"
-fi
-
-# Deactivate the venv after run
-deactivate || true
-
-exit $result