diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 73c85165d9..48440aabc3 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -19,10 +19,6 @@ export-csv:
 	  $(REGISTRY)/$(COMPANY)/docs-scriptrunner:latest \
 	  /workdir/scripts/export-csv/script.py
 
-# Update content from external repositories that gets copied in here.
-update-external-repos:
-	./scripts/update-external-repos/main.sh
-
 # Aggregate changelog entries from various repositories into our Changes section.
 changes:
 	@if [ -z "${GITHUB_TOKEN}" ]; then echo "Please set the GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable"; exit 1; fi
diff --git a/scripts/update-external-repos/main.sh b/scripts/update-external-repos/main.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 9ed756d848..0000000000
--- a/scripts/update-external-repos/main.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,49 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-# Here we pull in content from external repositories. While doing so we do
-# - copy images (png, jpg) to a special folder
-# - copy markdown content to another folder
-# - Rewrite image references in the markdown
-# - add a link to the recipe repository for collaboration
-#
-# This assumes:
-# - list of repository URLs in repositories.txt
-# - recipe repositories have a "docs" subfolder
-# - In the "docs" folder is an "index.md" file
-# - This index.md file has HUGO frontmatter
-# - There may be additional markdown files in that folder
-# - There may be PNG and/or JPG images in that folder
-
-mytmpdir=$(mktemp -d 2>/dev/null || mktemp -d -t 'mytmpdir')
-echo "Temp dir: $mytmpdir"
-
-cat ./scripts/update-external-repos/repositories.txt | while read repoline
-do
-
-  # split line into repository URL, target path
-  parts=(${repoline// / })
-  repourl=${parts[0]}
-  targetpath=${parts[1]}
-
-  echo "Copying repo ${repourl} to ${targetpath}"
-
-  # derive reponame from repourl
-  filename=$(basename ${repourl})
-  parts=(${filename//./ })
-  reponame=${parts[0]}
-
-  # Empty sub-folder for this repo here in the build folder
-  rm -rf ${reponame}
-
-  # Clone the repository from github
-  git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/giantswarm/${reponame}.git $mytmpdir/${reponame}
-
-  # Copy content into src tree
-  if [ -d "$mytmpdir/${reponame}/docs" ]; then
-    rm -rf ${targetpath}
-    mkdir ${targetpath}
-    cp $mytmpdir/${reponame}/docs/*.md ${targetpath}/ || echo "WARN: no Markdown files"
-    cp $mytmpdir/${reponame}/docs/*.png ${targetpath}/ || echo "INFO: no PNG files"
-    cp $mytmpdir/${reponame}/docs/*.jpg ${targetpath}/ || echo "INFO: no JPG files"
-  fi
-done
diff --git a/scripts/update-external-repos/repositories.txt b/scripts/update-external-repos/repositories.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 105ad14c54..0000000000
--- a/scripts/update-external-repos/repositories.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-https://github.com/giantswarm/kubernetes-gpu.git src/content/vintage/advanced/gpu