diff --git a/templates/gitlab-ci-gcloud.yml b/templates/gitlab-ci-gcloud.yml
index 99ea065393a1078561304b5ab6429a7b8ef78f01..b570fe8230865db0b10bd53063fdc1048333608e 100644
--- a/templates/gitlab-ci-gcloud.yml
+++ b/templates/gitlab-ci-gcloud.yml
@@ -313,26 +313,6 @@ stages:
     fi
   }
 
-  function get_latest_template_version() {
-    tag_json=$(wget -T 5 -q -O - "$CI_API_V4_URL/projects/to-be-continuous%2F$1/repository/tags?per_page=1" 2> /dev/null || curl -s --connect-timeout 5 "$CI_API_V4_URL/projects/to-be-continuous%2F$1/repository/tags?per_page=1" 2> /dev/null || echo "")
-    echo "$tag_json" | sed -rn 's/^.*"name":"([^"]*)".*$/\1/p'
-  }
-
-  function check_for_update() {
-    template="$1"
-    actual="$2"
-    latest=$(get_latest_template_version "$template")
-    if [[ -n "$latest" ]] && [[ "$latest" != "$actual" ]]
-    then
-      log_warn "\\e[1;93m=======================================================================================================\\e[0m"
-      log_warn "\\e[93mThe template \\e[32m$template\\e[93m:\\e[33m$actual\\e[93m you're using is not up-to-date: consider upgrading to version \\e[32m$latest\\e[0m"
-      log_warn "\\e[93m(set \$TEMPLATE_CHECK_UPDATE_DISABLED to disable this message)\\e[0m"
-      log_warn "\\e[1;93m=======================================================================================================\\e[0m"
-    fi
-  }
-
-  if [[ "$TEMPLATE_CHECK_UPDATE_DISABLED" != "true" ]]; then check_for_update gcloud "1.6.2"; fi
-
   # export tool functions (might be used in after_script)
   export -f log_info log_warn log_error assert_defined awkenvsubst