diff --git a/.buildkite/pipelines/package_testing.yml b/.buildkite/pipelines/package_testing.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index e9e1ca896c949..0000000000000
--- a/.buildkite/pipelines/package_testing.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-steps:
-  - command: .buildkite/scripts/steps/package_testing/build.sh
-    label: Build Packages
-    agents:
-      queue: c2-16
-    timeout_in_minutes: 60
-    if: "build.env('KIBANA_BUILD_ID') == null || build.env('KIBANA_BUILD_ID') == ''"
-
-  - wait
-
-  - command: TEST_PACKAGE=deb .buildkite/scripts/steps/package_testing/test.sh
-    label: Package testing for deb
-    agents:
-      queue: n2-4-virt
-    timeout_in_minutes: 60
-
-  - command: TEST_PACKAGE=rpm .buildkite/scripts/steps/package_testing/test.sh
-    label: Package testing for rpm
-    agents:
-      queue: n2-4-virt
-    timeout_in_minutes: 60
-
-  - command: TEST_PACKAGE=docker .buildkite/scripts/steps/package_testing/test.sh
-    label: Package testing for docker
-    agents:
-      queue: n2-4-virt
-    timeout_in_minutes: 60
diff --git a/.buildkite/pipelines/performance/daily.yml b/.buildkite/pipelines/performance/daily.yml
index 564bfb5e501b3..51012a5bb20f0 100644
--- a/.buildkite/pipelines/performance/daily.yml
+++ b/.buildkite/pipelines/performance/daily.yml
@@ -11,20 +11,29 @@ steps:
   - label: ':male-mechanic::skin-tone-2: Pre-Build'
     command: .buildkite/scripts/lifecycle/pre_build.sh
     agents:
-      queue: kibana-default
+      image: family/kibana-ubuntu-2004
+      imageProject: elastic-images-prod
+      provider: gcp
+      machineType: n2-standard-2
 
   - wait
 
   - label: ':factory_worker: Build Kibana Distribution and Plugins'
     command: .buildkite/scripts/steps/build_kibana.sh
     agents:
-      queue: c2-16
+      image: family/kibana-ubuntu-2004
+      imageProject: elastic-images-prod
+      provider: gcp
+      machineType: c2-standard-16
     key: build
 
   - label: ':muscle: Performance Tests with Playwright config'
     command: .buildkite/scripts/steps/functional/performance_playwright.sh
     agents:
-      queue: c2-16
+      image: family/kibana-ubuntu-2004
+      imageProject: elastic-images-prod
+      provider: gcp
+      machineType: c2-standard-16
     depends_on: build
 
   - wait: ~
@@ -33,4 +42,7 @@ steps:
   - label: ':male_superhero::skin-tone-2: Post-Build'
     command: .buildkite/scripts/lifecycle/post_build.sh
     agents:
-      queue: kibana-default
+      image: family/kibana-ubuntu-2004
+      imageProject: elastic-images-prod
+      provider: gcp
+      machineType: n2-standard-2
diff --git a/.buildkite/pipelines/update_demo_env.yml b/.buildkite/pipelines/update_demo_env.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 12c4f296f5dfd..0000000000000
--- a/.buildkite/pipelines/update_demo_env.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-steps:
-  - command: .buildkite/scripts/steps/demo_env/es_and_init.sh
-    label: Initialize Environment and Deploy ES
-    timeout_in_minutes: 10
-    agents:
-      queue: kibana-default
-
-  - command: .buildkite/scripts/steps/demo_env/kibana.sh
-    label: Build and Deploy Kibana
-    agents:
-      queue: c2-8
-    timeout_in_minutes: 60
diff --git a/.buildkite/scripts/steps/demo_env/Dockerfile b/.buildkite/scripts/steps/demo_env/Dockerfile
deleted file mode 100644
index a0b1c3311dc8c..0000000000000
--- a/.buildkite/scripts/steps/demo_env/Dockerfile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-ARG BASE_IMAGE
-FROM ${BASE_IMAGE}
-COPY ./* /var/lib/example_plugins
-RUN find /var/lib/example_plugins/ -type f -name '*.zip' | xargs -I % /usr/share/kibana/bin/kibana-plugin install 'file://%'
diff --git a/.buildkite/scripts/steps/demo_env/auth.sh b/.buildkite/scripts/steps/demo_env/auth.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 53e7d9faee60d..0000000000000
--- a/.buildkite/scripts/steps/demo_env/auth.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-set -euo pipefail
-
-echo '--- Auth and set up kubectl'
-
-gcloud container clusters get-credentials demo-env --region us-central1 --project elastic-kibana-184716
-kubectl config use-context gke_elastic-kibana-184716_us-central1_demo-env
diff --git a/.buildkite/scripts/steps/demo_env/config.sh b/.buildkite/scripts/steps/demo_env/config.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 772c89c34a59f..0000000000000
--- a/.buildkite/scripts/steps/demo_env/config.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-set -euo pipefail
-
-DEPLOYMENT_VERSION=$(jq -r .version package.json)
-export DEPLOYMENT_VERSION
-
-export DEPLOYMENT_MINOR_VERSION="${DEPLOYMENT_VERSION%.*}"
-export DEPLOYMENT_NAME="kb-${DEPLOYMENT_MINOR_VERSION/./-}"
diff --git a/.buildkite/scripts/steps/demo_env/es_and_init.sh b/.buildkite/scripts/steps/demo_env/es_and_init.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 7e76063cba21c..0000000000000
--- a/.buildkite/scripts/steps/demo_env/es_and_init.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-set -euo pipefail
-
-source "$(dirname "${0}")/config.sh"
-
-"$(dirname "${0}")/auth.sh"
-
-echo '--- Import and publish Elasticsearch image'
-
-mkdir -p target
-
-export ES_IMAGE="gcr.io/elastic-kibana-184716/demo/elasticsearch:$DEPLOYMENT_NAME-$(git rev-parse HEAD)"
-
-DOCKER_EXPORT_URL=$(curl https://storage.googleapis.com/kibana-ci-es-snapshots-daily/$DEPLOYMENT_VERSION/manifest-latest-verified.json | jq -r '.archives | .[] | select(.platform=="docker") | .url')
-curl "$DOCKER_EXPORT_URL" > target/elasticsearch-docker.tar.gz
-docker load < target/elasticsearch-docker.tar.gz
-docker tag "docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:$DEPLOYMENT_VERSION-SNAPSHOT" "$ES_IMAGE"
-docker push "$ES_IMAGE"
-
-echo '--- Prepare yaml'
-
-TEMPLATE=$(envsubst < "$(dirname "${0}")/es_and_init.yml")
-
-echo "$TEMPLATE"
-
-cat << EOF | buildkite-agent annotate --style "info" --context demo-env-info
-The demo environment can be accessed here, once Kibana and ES are running:
-
-https://demo.kibana.dev/$DEPLOYMENT_MINOR_VERSION
-
-Logs, etc can be found here:
-
-https://console.cloud.google.com/kubernetes/workload?project=elastic-kibana-184716&pageState=(%22savedViews%22:(%22n%22:%5B%22${DEPLOYMENT_NAME}%22%5D,%22c%22:%5B%22gke%2Fus-central1%2Fdemo-env%22%5D))
-
-EOF
-
-echo '--- Deploy yaml'
-echo "$TEMPLATE" | kubectl apply -f -
diff --git a/.buildkite/scripts/steps/demo_env/es_and_init.yml b/.buildkite/scripts/steps/demo_env/es_and_init.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 3ccd18853a824..0000000000000
--- a/.buildkite/scripts/steps/demo_env/es_and_init.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,63 +0,0 @@
-kind: Namespace
-apiVersion: v1
-metadata:
-  name: $DEPLOYMENT_NAME
-  labels:
-    name: $DEPLOYMENT_NAME
----
-apiVersion: elasticsearch.k8s.elastic.co/v1
-kind: Elasticsearch
-metadata:
-  name: $DEPLOYMENT_NAME
-  namespace: $DEPLOYMENT_NAME
-spec:
-  version: $DEPLOYMENT_VERSION
-  image: $ES_IMAGE
-  nodeSets:
-    - name: default
-      count: 1
-      config:
-        node.store.allow_mmap: false
-        xpack.security.authc:
-          anonymous:
-            roles: viewer
-            authz_exception: true
-      podTemplate:
-        spec:
-          containers:
-            - name: elasticsearch
-              env:
-                - name: ES_JAVA_OPTS
-                  value: -Xms2g -Xmx2g
-              resources:
-                requests:
-                  memory: 4Gi
-                  cpu: 2
-                limits:
-                  memory: 4Gi
----
-apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
-kind: Ingress
-metadata:
-  name: $DEPLOYMENT_NAME
-  namespace: $DEPLOYMENT_NAME
-  annotations:
-    kubernetes.io/ingress.class: 'nginx'
-    cert-manager.io/cluster-issuer: 'letsencrypt-prod'
-    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target: /$2
-spec:
-  tls:
-    - hosts:
-        - demo.kibana.dev
-      secretName: tls-certificate
-  rules:
-    - host: demo.kibana.dev
-      http:
-        paths:
-          - path: /$DEPLOYMENT_MINOR_VERSION(/|$)(.*)
-            pathType: ImplementationSpecific
-            backend:
-              service:
-                name: $DEPLOYMENT_NAME-kb-http
-                port:
-                  number: 5601
diff --git a/.buildkite/scripts/steps/demo_env/kibana.sh b/.buildkite/scripts/steps/demo_env/kibana.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index f38d43b5479e6..0000000000000
--- a/.buildkite/scripts/steps/demo_env/kibana.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-set -euo pipefail
-
-.buildkite/scripts/bootstrap.sh
-
-source "$(dirname "${0}")/config.sh"
-
-export KIBANA_IMAGE="gcr.io/elastic-kibana-184716/demo/kibana:$DEPLOYMENT_NAME-$(git rev-parse HEAD)"
-
-echo '--- Build Kibana'
-node scripts/build --debug --docker-images --example-plugins --skip-docker-ubi
-
-echo '--- Build Docker image with example plugins'
-cd target/example_plugins
-BUILT_IMAGE="docker.elastic.co/kibana/kibana:$DEPLOYMENT_VERSION-SNAPSHOT"
-docker build --build-arg BASE_IMAGE="$BUILT_IMAGE" -t "$KIBANA_IMAGE" -f "$KIBANA_DIR/.buildkite/scripts/steps/demo_env/Dockerfile" .
-docker push "$KIBANA_IMAGE"
-cd -
-
-"$(dirname "${0}")/auth.sh"
-
-echo '--- Prepare yaml'
-
-TEMPLATE=$(envsubst < "$(dirname "${0}")/kibana.yml")
-
-echo "$TEMPLATE"
-
-echo '--- Deploy yaml'
-echo "$TEMPLATE" | kubectl apply -f -
diff --git a/.buildkite/scripts/steps/demo_env/kibana.yml b/.buildkite/scripts/steps/demo_env/kibana.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 0cc879ca76c27..0000000000000
--- a/.buildkite/scripts/steps/demo_env/kibana.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-apiVersion: kibana.k8s.elastic.co/v1
-kind: Kibana
-metadata:
-  name: $DEPLOYMENT_NAME
-  namespace: $DEPLOYMENT_NAME
-spec:
-  version: $DEPLOYMENT_VERSION
-  image: $KIBANA_IMAGE
-  count: 1
-  elasticsearchRef:
-    name: $DEPLOYMENT_NAME
-  http:
-    tls:
-      selfSignedCertificate:
-        disabled: true
-  config:
-    server:
-      basePath: '/$DEPLOYMENT_MINOR_VERSION'
-      publicBaseUrl: 'https://demo.kibana.dev/$DEPLOYMENT_MINOR_VERSION'
-    xpack.security.authc.providers:
-      basic.basic1:
-        order: 0
-      anonymous.anonymous1:
-        order: 1
-        credentials: 'elasticsearch_anonymous_user'
-  podTemplate:
-    spec:
-      containers:
-        - name: kibana
-          env:
-            - name: NODE_OPTIONS
-              value: '--max-old-space-size=2048'
-          resources:
-            requests:
-              memory: 1Gi
-              cpu: 0.5
-            limits:
-              memory: 2.5Gi
-              cpu: 2
diff --git a/.buildkite/scripts/steps/package_testing/build.sh b/.buildkite/scripts/steps/package_testing/build.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 406070232f15d..0000000000000
--- a/.buildkite/scripts/steps/package_testing/build.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-set -euo pipefail
-
-.buildkite/scripts/bootstrap.sh
-
-node scripts/build --all-platforms --debug
-
-DOCKER_FILE="kibana-$KIBANA_PKG_VERSION-SNAPSHOT-docker-image.tar.gz"
-
-cd target
-buildkite-agent artifact upload "./$DOCKER_FILE;./*.deb;./*.rpm"
-cd ..
diff --git a/.buildkite/scripts/steps/package_testing/test.sh b/.buildkite/scripts/steps/package_testing/test.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 0b1ad3209aeff..0000000000000
--- a/.buildkite/scripts/steps/package_testing/test.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,55 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-set -euo pipefail
-
-.buildkite/scripts/bootstrap.sh
-
-echo "--- Package Testing for $TEST_PACKAGE"
-
-mkdir -p target
-cd target
-if [[ "$TEST_PACKAGE" == "deb" ]]; then
-  buildkite-agent artifact download 'kibana-*-amd64.deb' . --build "${KIBANA_BUILD_ID:-$BUILDKITE_BUILD_ID}"
-  KIBANA_IP_ADDRESS="192.168.56.5"
-elif [[ "$TEST_PACKAGE" == "rpm" ]]; then
-  buildkite-agent artifact download 'kibana-*-x86_64.rpm' . --build "${KIBANA_BUILD_ID:-$BUILDKITE_BUILD_ID}"
-  KIBANA_IP_ADDRESS="192.168.56.6"
-elif [[ "$TEST_PACKAGE" == "docker" ]]; then
-  buildkite-agent artifact download "kibana-$KIBANA_PKG_VERSION*-docker-image.tar.gz" . --build "${KIBANA_BUILD_ID:-$BUILDKITE_BUILD_ID}"
-  KIBANA_IP_ADDRESS="192.168.56.7"
-fi
-cd ..
-
-export VAGRANT_CWD=$PWD/test/package
-vagrant up "$TEST_PACKAGE" --no-provision
-
-node scripts/es snapshot \
-  -E network.bind_host=127.0.0.1,192.168.56.1 \
-  -E discovery.type=single-node \
-  --license=trial &
-while ! timeout 1 bash -c "echo > /dev/tcp/localhost/9200"; do sleep 30; done
-
-function echoKibanaLogs {
-  if [[ "$TEST_PACKAGE" == "deb" ]] || [[ "$TEST_PACKAGE" == "rpm" ]]; then
-    echo "--- /var/log/kibana/kibana.log "
-    vagrant ssh $TEST_PACKAGE -t -c 'sudo cat /var/log/kibana/kibana.log'
-
-    echo "--- Journal "
-    vagrant ssh $TEST_PACKAGE -t -c 'sudo journalctl -u kibana.service --no-pager'
-  elif [[ "$TEST_PACKAGE" == "docker" ]]; then
-    echo '--- Docker logs'
-    vagrant ssh $TEST_PACKAGE -t -c 'sudo docker logs kibana'
-  fi
-}
-trap "echoKibanaLogs" EXIT
-
-vagrant provision "$TEST_PACKAGE"
-
-export TEST_BROWSER_HEADLESS=1
-export TEST_KIBANA_URL="http://elastic:changeme@$KIBANA_IP_ADDRESS:5601"
-export TEST_ES_URL=http://elastic:changeme@192.168.56.1:9200
-
-cd x-pack
-
-echo "--- FTR - Reporting"
-node scripts/functional_test_runner.js --config test/functional/config.js --include-tag=smoke --quiet