diff --git a/inventory/group_vars/resultsdb-prod b/inventory/group_vars/resultsdb-prod
index 6f80c8e3f7..edcf5399f3 100644
--- a/inventory/group_vars/resultsdb-prod
+++ b/inventory/group_vars/resultsdb-prod
@@ -27,6 +27,3 @@ resultsdb_fe_endpoint: '/resultsdb'
 resultsdb_db_name: resultsdb
 allowed_hosts:
     - 10.5.124
-
-# this needs to be removed once the system actually goes into production
-freezes: false
diff --git a/inventory/group_vars/taskotron-prod b/inventory/group_vars/taskotron-prod
index d998b64219..15516ab8ce 100644
--- a/inventory/group_vars/taskotron-prod
+++ b/inventory/group_vars/taskotron-prod
@@ -26,4 +26,3 @@ landingpage_title: "Taskotron"
 deployment_type: prod
 tcp_ports: [ 80, 443, "{{ buildslave_port }}" ]
 taskotron_docs_url: https://docs.qadevel.cloud.fedoraproject.org/libtaskotron/latest/
-freezes: false
diff --git a/inventory/group_vars/taskotron-prod-clients b/inventory/group_vars/taskotron-prod-clients
index 91ef8bd47f..a8c77f0ed0 100644
--- a/inventory/group_vars/taskotron-prod-clients
+++ b/inventory/group_vars/taskotron-prod-clients
@@ -22,6 +22,3 @@ buildslave_public_sshkey_file: prod-buildslave-sshkey/prod_buildslave.pub
 taskotron_admin_email: taskotron-admin-members@fedoraproject.org
 sudoers: "{{ private }}/files/sudo/qavirt-sudoers"
 buildmaster_pubkey: 'ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 AAAAE2VjZHNhLXNoYTItbmlzdHAyNTYAAAAIbmlzdHAyNTYAAABBBBlB0+PK20wI+MN1eYTDCjpnRZCo3eEdAwR2yuOFhm5BdMvdAokpS3CjA6KSKPQjgTc9UHz4WjwGVysV0sns9h0='
-
-# this needs to be removed once the system actually goes into production
-freezes: false