diff --git a/inventory/group_vars/qa_stg b/inventory/group_vars/qa_stg
deleted file mode 100644
index c2450705fd..0000000000
--- a/inventory/group_vars/qa_stg
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,96 +0,0 @@
----
-# Define resources for this group of hosts here. 
-lvm_size: 40000
-mem_size: 4096
-num_cpus: 1
-
-# for systems that do not match the above - specify the same parameter in
-# the host_vars/$hostname file
-
-fas_client_groups: sysadmin-qa,sysadmin-main,fi-apprentice,sysadmin-noc,sysadmin-veteran
-
-sshd_config: ssh/sshd_config.qa-stg
-sshd_port: 222
-external_hostname: qa.stg.fedoraproject.org
-
-mariadb_host: localhost
-mariadb_user: '{{ qa_stg_mariadb_user }}'
-mariadb_password: '{{ qa_stg_mariadb_password }}'
-
-# phabricator config
-phabricator_db_prefix: 'phabricator'
-# something changed in how the sshd daemons are set up, since this isn't critical, disabling for now
-enable_phabricator_git: False
-phabricator_vcs_user: git
-phabricator_vcs_user_password: '{{ qa_stg_vcs_user_password }}'
-phabricator_daemon_user: phabricator
-phabroot: /usr/share/
-phabricator_filedir: /var/lib/phabricator/files
-phabricator_repodir: /var/lib/phabricator/repos
-phabricator_config_filename: qaconfig
-phabricator_header_color: 'red'
-phabricator_mail_enabled: False
-phabricator_mail_domain: stg.fedoraproject.org
-ircnick: fedoraqabot
-phabricator_mysqldump_filename: 'qadevel-stg_phabricator.sql'
-
-# backup details (for parity with prod, not actually used)
-backup_dir: /srv/backup
-backup_username: root
-backup_ssh_pubkey: ssh-dss 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  root@backup03-rdiff-backup
-
-# buildmaster details
-buildmaster_db_host: localhost
-buildmaster_template: ci.master.cfg.j2
-buildmaster_endpoint: builds
-buildslave_ssh_pubkey: ''
-buildslave_port: 9989
-buildmaster_dir: /home/buildmaster/master
-buildslave_dir: /home/buildslave/slave
-buildslave_poll_interval: 1800
-buildmaster_home: /home/buildmaster
-buildmaster_user: buildmaster
-
-# build details
-repo_base: 'https://git.qadevel-stg.cloud.fedoraproject.org/diffusion'
-docs_build_dir: /var/www/docs/
-
-# for now, we're just doing a local slave so we need the slave vars in here
-slave_home: /home/buildslave/
-slave_dir: /home/buildslave/slave
-slave_user: buildslave
-buildslave_name: 'qa-stg01-1'
-buildslave_password: '{{ qa_stg_buildslave_password }}'
-
-deployment_type: qa-stg
-tcp_ports: [ 80, 222, 443, "{{ buildslave_port }}", 3306 ]
-
-############################################################
-# imagefactory config
-############################################################
-
-imagefactory_host: qa11.qa.fedoraproject.org
-imagefactory_baseurl: 'http://{{imagefactory_host}}:8075/imagefactory'
-imagefactory_tools_branch: develop
-
-imagesdir: /var/lib/diskimages
-slaves_group: apache
-
-# static sites
-static_sites:
-  - name: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
-    document_root: /srv/content
-    external_name: "{{ external_hostname }}"
-
-  - name: "docs.{{ inventory_hostname }}"
-    document_root: /srv/content/docs
-    external_name: "docs.{{ external_hostname }}"
-
-  - name: "images.{{ inventory_hostname }}"
-    document_root: /srv/content/images
-    external_name: "images.{{ external_hostname }}"
-
-
-sslonly: false
-
-freezes: false
diff --git a/inventory/inventory b/inventory/inventory
index 28627bcfa0..f0bf724eb3 100644
--- a/inventory/inventory
+++ b/inventory/inventory
@@ -15,9 +15,6 @@ grobisplitter01.phx2.fedoraproject.org
 [qa_prod]
 qa-prod01.qa.fedoraproject.org
 
-[qa_stg]
-qa-stg01.qa.fedoraproject.org:222
-
 [rabbitmq]
 rabbitmq01.phx2.fedoraproject.org
 rabbitmq02.phx2.fedoraproject.org