diff --git a/config/overlays/kubeflow/application.yaml b/config/overlays/kubeflow/application.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index a8b316f2e2b..00000000000
--- a/config/overlays/kubeflow/application.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-apiVersion: app.k8s.io/v1beta1
-kind: Application
-metadata:
-  name: kfserving
-spec:
-  selector:
-    matchLabels:
-      app.kubernetes.io/name: kfserving
-      app.kubernetes.io/component: kfserving
-  componentKinds:
-    - group: apps
-      kind: StatefulSet
-    - group: core
-      kind: Service
-    - group: core
-      kind: Secret
-    - group: core
-      kind: ConfigMap
-    - group: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
-      kind: Role
-    - group: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
-      kind: RoleBinding
-  descriptor:
-    type: kfserving
-    version: v1beta1
-    description: |-
-      KFServing provides a Kubernetes Custom Resource Definition for serving ML Models on arbitrary frameworks
-    maintainers:
-      - name: KFServing
-        url: https://github.com/kubeflow/kfserving
-    owners:
-      - name: KFServing
-        url: https://github.com/kubeflow/kfserving
-    keywords:
-     - kfserving
-     - inference
-    links:
-      - description: About
-        url: https://github.com/kubeflow/kfserving
-  addOwnerRef: true
diff --git a/config/overlays/kubeflow/kustomization.yaml b/config/overlays/kubeflow/kustomization.yaml
index 7965b57fbf0..d658b583d6a 100644
--- a/config/overlays/kubeflow/kustomization.yaml
+++ b/config/overlays/kubeflow/kustomization.yaml
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ commonLabels:
 bases:
 - ../../default
 - cluster-role.yaml
-- application.yaml
 
 patchesStrategicMerge:
 - statefulset-patch.yaml