diff --git a/images/installer/Dockerfile b/images/installer/Dockerfile
index 8fbe93608d1..15636253fa4 100644
--- a/images/installer/Dockerfile
+++ b/images/installer/Dockerfile
@@ -55,11 +55,7 @@ ENV PLAYBOOK_FILE=playbooks/byo/openshift_facts.yml \
 
 # playbook2image's assemble script expects the source to be available in
 # /tmp/src (as per the source-to-image specs) so we import it there
-ADD . /tmp/src
-
-# Running the 'assemble' script will install
-# dependencies specified in requirements.txt
-RUN /usr/bin/assemble
+ADD . ${APP_HOME}
 
 WORKDIR ${APP_HOME}
 ENTRYPOINT [ "/usr/bin/entrypoint" ]
diff --git a/images/installer/Dockerfile.rhel7 b/images/installer/Dockerfile.rhel7
index db5f1fabfc1..0f249976aa3 100644
--- a/images/installer/Dockerfile.rhel7
+++ b/images/installer/Dockerfile.rhel7
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ LABEL name="openshift3/ose-ansible" \
       architecture="x86_64"
 
 # Playbooks, roles and their dependencies are installed from packages.
-# Unlike in Dockerfile, we don't invoke the 'assemble' script here
 USER root
 RUN INSTALL_PKGS="atomic-openshift-utils atomic-openshift-clients python-boto skopeo openssl java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless httpd-tools" && \
     yum repolist > /dev/null && \
@@ -49,9 +48,6 @@ ENV USER_NAME=default \
 # The playbook to be run is specified via the PLAYBOOK_FILE env var.
 # This sets a default of openshift_facts.yml as it's an informative playbook
 # that can help test that everything is set properly (inventory, sshkeys).
-# As the playbooks are installed via packages instead of being copied to
-# $APP_HOME by the 'assemble' script, we set the WORK_DIR env var to the
-# location of openshift-ansible.
 ENV PLAYBOOK_FILE=playbooks/byo/openshift_facts.yml \
     ANSIBLE_CONFIG=/usr/share/atomic-openshift-utils/ansible.cfg \
     WORK_DIR=/usr/share/ansible/openshift-ansible \
diff --git a/images/installer/bin/assemble b/images/installer/bin/assemble
deleted file mode 100755
index 0d75d410b0c..00000000000
--- a/images/installer/bin/assemble
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash -e
-#
-# Assemble script for the openshift/openshift-ansible image.
-# The 'assemble' script builds the application source so that it is ready to run.
-#
-# For more information refer to the documentation:
-#	https://github.com/openshift/source-to-image/blob/master/docs/builder_image.md
-#
-
-if [[ "$1" == "-h" ]]; then
-	# If the assemble script is executed with '-h' flag,
-	# print the usage.
-	exec /usr/bin/usage
-fi
-
-# Restore artifacts from the previous build (if they exist).
-#
-if [ "$(ls /tmp/artifacts/ 2>/dev/null)" ]; then
-  echo "---> Restoring build artifacts..."
-  mv /tmp/artifacts/. ./
-fi
-
-echo "---> Installing application source..."
-cp -Rf /tmp/src/. ./
-
-echo "---> Building application from source..."
-# pre-create PYTHONUSERBASE/lib/*, otherwise pip creates it with mode 0700
-# which prevents containers with arbitrary UIDs to access local packages
-mkdir -p ${HOME}/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages
-if [[ -v PYTHON_REQUIREMENTS ]]; then
-  pip install --no-cache-dir -r ${PYTHON_REQUIREMENTS}
-elif [[ -e requirements.txt ]]; then
-  pip install --no-cache-dir --user -r requirements.txt
-fi
diff --git a/images/installer/bin/run b/images/installer/bin/run
index d92a4dfb26f..9026dc622e7 100755
--- a/images/installer/bin/run
+++ b/images/installer/bin/run
@@ -15,11 +15,11 @@ if [[ -v INVENTORY_FILE ]]; then
   # contains a dynamic inventory and we use it directly.
   # Otherwise we make a copy so that ALLOW_ANSIBLE_CONNECTION_LOCAL below
   # does not attempt to modify the original
-  if [[ -x ${INVENTORY_FILE} ]]; then
-    INVENTORY="${INVENTORY_FILE}"
-  else
-    cp ${INVENTORY_FILE} ${INVENTORY}
-  fi
+  #if [[ -x ${INVENTORY_FILE} ]]; then
+  #  INVENTORY="${INVENTORY_FILE}"
+  #else
+  cp ${INVENTORY_FILE} ${INVENTORY}
+  #fi
 elif [[ -v INVENTORY_URL ]]; then
   curl -o ${INVENTORY} ${INVENTORY_URL}
 elif [[ -v DYNAMIC_SCRIPT_URL ]]; then