diff --git a/inventory/group_vars/openqa-stg-workers b/inventory/group_vars/openqa-stg-workers
index 7db1735e7b..b08d62e60a 100644
--- a/inventory/group_vars/openqa-stg-workers
+++ b/inventory/group_vars/openqa-stg-workers
@@ -4,22 +4,5 @@ openqa_hostname: openqa-stg01.qa.fedoraproject.org
 openqa_key: "{{ stg_openqa_apikey }}"
 openqa_secret: "{{ stg_openqa_apisecret }}"
 
-# for iptables rules...maybe other stuff in future? both staging
-# and prod workers are in this group
-host_group: openqa-workers
-
-# firewall rules to allow openQA openvswitch guests to communicate
-custom_rules: [
-    '-A FORWARD -i br0 -j ACCEPT',
-    '-A FORWARD -m state -i eth0 -o br0 --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT',
-    '-A INPUT -i br0 -j ACCEPT'
-]
-
-# we do stuff with ifcfg that base doesn't understand. terrible, terrible
-# stuff. seriously - it doesn't handle the openvswitch config well. so
-# let's tell it to just configure eth0 for us and leave everything else
-# alone.
-ansible_ifcfg_whitelist: ['eth0']
-
 deployment_type: stg
 freezes: false