diff --git a/playbooks/tripleo-buildcontainers/defaults/main.yaml b/playbooks/tripleo-buildcontainers/defaults/main.yaml
index 3eeb01fd5..afca7704a 100644
--- a/playbooks/tripleo-buildcontainers/defaults/main.yaml
+++ b/playbooks/tripleo-buildcontainers/defaults/main.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 push_registry: "127.0.0.1:8787"
-push_tag: "latest"
 push_containers: "false"
 use_buildah: false
 buildcontainers_override_repos: ""
diff --git a/playbooks/tripleo-buildcontainers/run.yaml b/playbooks/tripleo-buildcontainers/run.yaml
index a242e0090..93f120478 100644
--- a/playbooks/tripleo-buildcontainers/run.yaml
+++ b/playbooks/tripleo-buildcontainers/run.yaml
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
       set_fact:
         ci_branch: "{{ zuul.branch | default('master') | replace('stable/','') }}"
         push_registry: "{{ push_registry | default('127.0.0.1:8787') }}"
-        push_tag: "{{ push_tag | default('latest') }}"
         push_containers: "{{ push_containers | default(false) | bool }}"
 
     - name: Get contents of delorean repo baseurl for the version hash
@@ -74,21 +73,3 @@
         chdir: '{{ workspace }}'
       shell: set -o pipefail && bash build_containers.sh 2>&1 {{ timestamper_cmd }} > {{ workspace }}/build.log
 
-    - name: Retrieve the images by version_hash and retag with tripleo-ci-testing if periodic
-      when:
-        - zuul is defined
-        - "'periodic' in zuul.pipeline"
-      block:
-        - name: Retrieve list of built images
-          shell: >
-            docker images --format "{{ '{{' }}.Repository{{ '}}' }}" \
-              --filter "reference=*:{{ version_hash }}"
-          register: built_images
-
-        - name: Tag images
-          vars:
-            image: "{{ item }}"
-          include: tag.yml
-          static: no
-          with_items: "{{ built_images.stdout_lines }}"
-
diff --git a/playbooks/tripleo-buildcontainers/tag.yaml b/playbooks/tripleo-buildcontainers/tag.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 2b339f8ff..000000000
--- a/playbooks/tripleo-buildcontainers/tag.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
----
-- block:
-    # Tag and push in the same task for the sake of doing less tasks
-    - name: "Tag image: {{ image }}"
-      command: >
-        {{ cmd }}
-      with_items:
-        - "docker tag {{ image }}:{{ version_hash }} {{ image }}:{{ push_tag }}"
-        - "docker push {{ image }}:{{ push_tag }}"
-      loop_control:
-        loop_var: "cmd"