diff --git a/google-api-grpc/grpc-google-cloud-container-v1/pom.xml b/google-api-grpc/grpc-google-cloud-container-v1/pom.xml
index c48c6726f777..10b8d306eb13 100644
--- a/google-api-grpc/grpc-google-cloud-container-v1/pom.xml
+++ b/google-api-grpc/grpc-google-cloud-container-v1/pom.xml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <artifactId>grpc-google-cloud-container-v1</artifactId>
-  <version>0.82.0</version><!-- {x-version-update:grpc-google-cloud-container-v1:current} -->
+  <version>0.82.0</version>
   <name>grpc-google-cloud-container-v1</name>
   <description>GRPC library for grpc-google-cloud-container-v1</description>
   <parent>
@@ -28,6 +28,27 @@
       <scope>compile</scope>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
+  <build>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+        <!-- skip deployment until we fully migrate to https://github.com/googleapis/java-container -->
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-deploy-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>2.8.2</version>
+        <configuration>
+          <skip>true</skip>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.sonatype.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>nexus-staging-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>1.6.8</version>
+        <configuration>
+          <skipNexusStagingDeployMojo>true</skipNexusStagingDeployMojo>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+  </build>
   <reporting>
     <plugins>
       <plugin>
diff --git a/google-api-grpc/pom.xml b/google-api-grpc/pom.xml
index 1d84a16d61b3..34527764d441 100644
--- a/google-api-grpc/pom.xml
+++ b/google-api-grpc/pom.xml
@@ -221,12 +221,12 @@
       <dependency>
         <groupId>com.google.api.grpc</groupId>
         <artifactId>proto-google-cloud-container-v1</artifactId>
-        <version>0.82.0</version><!-- {x-version-update:proto-google-cloud-container-v1:current} -->
+        <version>0.82.0</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>com.google.api.grpc</groupId>
         <artifactId>grpc-google-cloud-container-v1</artifactId>
-        <version>0.82.0</version><!-- {x-version-update:grpc-google-cloud-container-v1:current} -->
+        <version>0.82.0</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>com.google.api.grpc</groupId>
diff --git a/google-api-grpc/proto-google-cloud-container-v1/pom.xml b/google-api-grpc/proto-google-cloud-container-v1/pom.xml
index 170b1d6e07e7..da8206fd8604 100644
--- a/google-api-grpc/proto-google-cloud-container-v1/pom.xml
+++ b/google-api-grpc/proto-google-cloud-container-v1/pom.xml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <artifactId>proto-google-cloud-container-v1</artifactId>
-  <version>0.82.0</version><!-- {x-version-update:proto-google-cloud-container-v1:current} -->
+  <version>0.82.0</version>
   <name>proto-google-cloud-container-v1</name>
   <description>PROTO library for proto-google-cloud-container-v1</description>
   <parent>
@@ -28,4 +28,25 @@
       <scope>compile</scope>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
+  <build>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+        <!-- skip deployment until we fully migrate to https://github.com/googleapis/java-container -->
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-deploy-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>2.8.2</version>
+        <configuration>
+          <skip>true</skip>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.sonatype.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>nexus-staging-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>1.6.8</version>
+        <configuration>
+          <skipNexusStagingDeployMojo>true</skipNexusStagingDeployMojo>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+  </build>
 </project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/google-cloud-bom/pom.xml b/google-cloud-bom/pom.xml
index b153bbb588c3..4586cb197418 100644
--- a/google-cloud-bom/pom.xml
+++ b/google-cloud-bom/pom.xml
@@ -276,17 +276,17 @@
       <dependency>
         <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
         <artifactId>google-cloud-container</artifactId>
-        <version>0.117.0-beta</version><!-- {x-version-update:google-cloud-container:current} -->
+        <version>0.117.0-beta</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>com.google.api.grpc</groupId>
         <artifactId>proto-google-cloud-container-v1</artifactId>
-        <version>0.82.0</version><!-- {x-version-update:proto-google-cloud-container-v1:current} -->
+        <version>0.82.0</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>com.google.api.grpc</groupId>
         <artifactId>grpc-google-cloud-container-v1</artifactId>
-        <version>0.82.0</version><!-- {x-version-update:grpc-google-cloud-container-v1:current} -->
+        <version>0.82.0</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
diff --git a/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-container/.repo-metadata.json b/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-container/.repo-metadata.json
deleted file mode 100644
index f66cca0764ee..000000000000
--- a/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-container/.repo-metadata.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "name": "container",
-  "name_pretty": "Kubernetes Engine",
-  "product_documentation": "https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/",
-  "client_documentation": "https://googleapis.dev/java/google-cloud-clients/latest/index.html?com/google/cloud/container/v1/package-summary.html",
-  "issue_tracker": "https://issuetracker.google.com/savedsearches/559777",
-  "release_level": "beta",
-  "language": "java",
-  "repo": "googleapis/google-cloud-java",
-  "repo_short": "google-cloud-java",
-  "distribution_name": "com.google.cloud:google-cloud-container",
-  "api_id": "container.googleapis.com"
-}
diff --git a/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-container/README.md b/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-container/README.md
index aa28871aa775..71bb0176b1f9 100644
--- a/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-container/README.md
+++ b/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-container/README.md
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ Java idiomatic client for [Kubernetes Engine][cloud-container].
 Quickstart
 ----------
 
-[//]: # ({x-version-update-start:google-cloud-container:released})
 Add this to your pom.xml file
 ```xml
 <dependency>
@@ -33,7 +32,6 @@ If you are using SBT, add this to your dependencies
 ```Scala
 libraryDependencies += "com.google.cloud" % "google-cloud-container" % "0.117.0-beta"
 ```
-[//]: # ({x-version-update-end})
 
 Authentication
 --------------
diff --git a/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-container/pom.xml b/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-container/pom.xml
index 593869291468..689a6114c947 100644
--- a/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-container/pom.xml
+++ b/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-container/pom.xml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <artifactId>google-cloud-container</artifactId>
-  <version>0.117.0-beta</version><!-- {x-version-update:google-cloud-container:current} -->
+  <version>0.117.0-beta</version>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
   <name>Google Cloud Container</name>
   <url>https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-java/tree/master/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-container</url>
@@ -46,7 +46,27 @@
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
-
+  <build>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+        <!-- skip deployment until we fully migrate to https://github.com/googleapis/java-container -->
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-deploy-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>2.8.2</version>
+        <configuration>
+          <skip>true</skip>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.sonatype.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>nexus-staging-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>1.6.8</version>
+        <configuration>
+          <skipNexusStagingDeployMojo>true</skipNexusStagingDeployMojo>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+  </build>
   <reporting>
     <plugins>
       <plugin>
diff --git a/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-container/synth.metadata b/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-container/synth.metadata
deleted file mode 100644
index 52e24b191afe..000000000000
--- a/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-container/synth.metadata
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "updateTime": "2019-08-02T07:38:47.415571Z",
-  "sources": [
-    {
-      "generator": {
-        "name": "artman",
-        "version": "0.32.0",
-        "dockerImage": "googleapis/artman@sha256:6929f343c400122d85818195b18613330a12a014bffc1e08499550d40571479d"
-      }
-    },
-    {
-      "git": {
-        "name": "googleapis",
-        "remote": "https://github.com/googleapis/googleapis.git",
-        "sha": "1b1ef1ca146c2119f077bca5e2b638c6bacb0925",
-        "internalRef": "261214002"
-      }
-    }
-  ],
-  "destinations": [
-    {
-      "client": {
-        "source": "googleapis",
-        "apiName": "container",
-        "apiVersion": "v1",
-        "language": "java",
-        "generator": "gapic",
-        "config": "google/container/artman_container_v1.yaml"
-      }
-    }
-  ]
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-container/synth.py b/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-container/synth.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 9912e1b859e5..000000000000
--- a/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-container/synth.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 2018 Google LLC
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-"""This script is used to synthesize generated parts of this library."""
-
-import synthtool as s
-import synthtool.gcp as gcp
-import synthtool.languages.java as java
-
-gapic = gcp.GAPICGenerator()
-
-service = 'container'
-versions = ['v1']
-config_pattern = '/google/container/artman_container_{version}.yaml'
-
-for version in versions:
-  library = gapic.java_library(
-      service=service,
-      version=version,
-      config_path=config_pattern.format(version=version),
-      artman_output_name='')
-
-  s.copy(library / f'gapic-google-cloud-{service}-{version}/src', 'src')
-  s.copy(library / f'grpc-google-cloud-{service}-{version}/src', f'../../google-api-grpc/grpc-google-cloud-{service}-{version}/src')
-  s.copy(library / f'proto-google-cloud-{service}-{version}/src', f'../../google-api-grpc/proto-google-cloud-{service}-{version}/src')
-
-  java.format_code('./src')
-  java.format_code(f'../../google-api-grpc/grpc-google-cloud-{service}-{version}/src')
-  java.format_code(f'../../google-api-grpc/proto-google-cloud-{service}-{version}/src')
diff --git a/versions.txt b/versions.txt
index 61f8a704ff43..46568146d837 100644
--- a/versions.txt
+++ b/versions.txt
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ google-cloud-bom:0.117.0-alpha:0.117.0-alpha
 google-cloud-clients:0.117.0-alpha:0.117.0-alpha
 google-cloud-compat-checker:0.117.0-alpha:0.117.0-alpha
 google-cloud-compute:0.117.0-alpha:0.117.0-alpha
-google-cloud-container:0.117.0-beta:0.117.0-beta
 google-cloud-containeranalysis:0.117.0-beta:0.117.0-beta
 google-cloud-contrib:0.117.0-alpha:0.117.0-alpha
 google-cloud-datastore:1.99.0:1.99.0
@@ -37,7 +36,6 @@ google-cloud-util:0.117.0-alpha:0.117.0-alpha
 grafeas:0.20.0:0.20.0
 grpc-google-cloud-bigquerydatatransfer-v1:0.82.0:0.82.0
 grpc-google-cloud-bigquerystorage-v1beta1:0.82.0:0.82.0
-grpc-google-cloud-container-v1:0.82.0:0.82.0
 grpc-google-cloud-containeranalysis-v1:0.82.0:0.82.0
 grpc-google-cloud-containeranalysis-v1beta1:0.82.0:0.82.0
 grpc-google-cloud-error-reporting-v1beta1:0.82.0:0.82.0
@@ -54,7 +52,6 @@ grpc-google-cloud-tasks-v2beta2:0.82.0:0.82.0
 grpc-google-cloud-tasks-v2beta3:0.82.0:0.82.0
 proto-google-cloud-bigquerydatatransfer-v1:0.82.0:0.82.0
 proto-google-cloud-bigquerystorage-v1beta1:0.82.0:0.82.0
-proto-google-cloud-container-v1:0.82.0:0.82.0
 proto-google-cloud-containeranalysis-v1:0.82.0:0.82.0
 proto-google-cloud-containeranalysis-v1beta1:0.82.0:0.82.0
 proto-google-cloud-datastore-v1:0.82.0:0.82.0