diff --git a/templates/gitlab-ci-docker-vault.yml b/templates/gitlab-ci-docker-vault.yml
index 5fda33c04803b4122a0ecc95779752b211b23f96..0b60db5015c3d6d80975c58117b12d213f31cc20 100644
--- a/templates/gitlab-ci-docker-vault.yml
+++ b/templates/gitlab-ci-docker-vault.yml
@@ -1,10 +1,6 @@
 # =====================================================================================================================
 # === Vault template variant
 # =====================================================================================================================
-variables:
-  # variables have to be explicitly declared in the YAML to be exported to the service
-  VAULT_ROLE_ID: "$VAULT_ROLE_ID"
-  VAULT_SECRET_ID: "$VAULT_SECRET_ID"
 
 .docker-base:
   services: