diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index bef6b4b91b78..46c2b5ae37c0 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -435,22 +435,6 @@ local-cross: $(CROSS_BUILD_TARGETS) ## Cross compile podman binary for multiple
 .PHONY: cross
 cross: local-cross
 
-# Update nix/nixpkgs.json its latest stable commit
-.PHONY: nixpkgs
-nixpkgs:
-	@nix run \
-		-f channel:nixos-21.05 nix-prefetch-git \
-		-c nix-prefetch-git \
-		--no-deepClone \
-		https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs refs/heads/nixos-21.05 > nix/nixpkgs.json
-
-# Build statically linked binary
-.PHONY: static
-static:
-	@nix build -f nix/
-	mkdir -p ./bin
-	cp -rfp ./result/bin/* ./bin/
-
 .PHONY: build-no-cgo
 build-no-cgo:
 	BUILDTAGS="containers_image_openpgp exclude_graphdriver_btrfs \
diff --git a/nix/default-arm64.nix b/nix/default-arm64.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index fa076f27d820..000000000000
--- a/nix/default-arm64.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,90 +0,0 @@
-let
-  pkgs = (import ./nixpkgs.nix {
-    crossSystem = {
-      config = "aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu";
-    };
-    config = {
-      packageOverrides = pkg: {
-        gpgme = (static pkg.gpgme);
-        libassuan = (static pkg.libassuan);
-        libgpgerror = (static pkg.libgpgerror);
-        libseccomp = (static pkg.libseccomp);
-        glib = (static pkg.glib).overrideAttrs (x: {
-          outputs = [ "bin" "out" "dev" ];
-          mesonFlags = [
-            "-Ddefault_library=static"
-            "-Ddevbindir=${placeholder ''dev''}/bin"
-            "-Dgtk_doc=false"
-            "-Dnls=disabled"
-          ];
-          postInstall = ''
-            moveToOutput "share/glib-2.0" "$dev"
-            substituteInPlace "$dev/bin/gdbus-codegen" --replace "$out" "$dev"
-            sed -i "$dev/bin/glib-gettextize" -e "s|^gettext_dir=.*|gettext_dir=$dev/share/glib-2.0/gettext|"
-            sed '1i#line 1 "${x.pname}-${x.version}/include/glib-2.0/gobject/gobjectnotifyqueue.c"' \
-              -i "$dev"/include/glib-2.0/gobject/gobjectnotifyqueue.c
-          '';
-        });
-        pcsclite = (static pkg.pcsclite).overrideAttrs (x: {
-          configureFlags = [
-            "--enable-confdir=/etc"
-            "--enable-usbdropdir=/var/lib/pcsc/drivers"
-            "--disable-libsystemd"
-            "--disable-libudev"
-            "--disable-libusb"
-          ];
-          buildInputs = [ pkgs.python3 pkgs.dbus ];
-        });
-        systemd = (static pkg.systemd).overrideAttrs (x: {
-          outputs = [ "out" "dev" ];
-          mesonFlags = x.mesonFlags ++ [
-            "-Dglib=false"
-            "-Dstatic-libsystemd=true"
-          ];
-        });
-      };
-    };
-  });
-
-  static = pkg: pkg.overrideAttrs (x: {
-    doCheck = false;
-    configureFlags = (x.configureFlags or [ ]) ++ [
-      "--without-shared"
-      "--disable-shared"
-    ];
-    dontDisableStatic = true;
-    enableSharedExecutables = false;
-    enableStatic = true;
-  });
-
-  self = with pkgs; buildGoModule rec {
-    name = "podman";
-    src = builtins.filterSource
-      (path: type: !(type == "directory" && baseNameOf path == "bin")) ./..;
-    vendorSha256 = null;
-    doCheck = false;
-    enableParallelBuilding = true;
-    outputs = [ "out" ];
-    nativeBuildInputs = [ bash gitMinimal go-md2man pkg-config which ];
-    buildInputs = [ glibc glibc.static glib gpgme libassuan libgpgerror libseccomp libapparmor libselinux ];
-    prePatch = ''
-      export CFLAGS='-static -pthread'
-      export LDFLAGS='-s -w -static-libgcc -static'
-      export EXTRA_LDFLAGS='-s -w -linkmode external -extldflags "-static -lm"'
-      export BUILDTAGS='static netgo osusergo exclude_graphdriver_btrfs exclude_graphdriver_devicemapper seccomp apparmor selinux'
-      export CGO_ENABLED=1
-    '';
-    buildPhase = ''
-      patchShebangs .
-      make bin/podman
-      make bin/podman-remote
-      make bin/rootlessport
-    '';
-    installPhase = ''
-      install -Dm755 bin/podman $out/bin/podman
-      install -Dm755 bin/podman-remote $out/bin/podman-remote
-      install -Dm755 bin/rootlessport $out/libexec/podman/rootlessport
-    '';
-  };
-in
-self
diff --git a/nix/default.nix b/nix/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 30ae2150335a..000000000000
--- a/nix/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,88 +0,0 @@
-{ system ? builtins.currentSystem }:
-let
-  pkgs = (import ./nixpkgs.nix {
-    config = {
-      packageOverrides = pkg: {
-        gpgme = (static pkg.gpgme);
-        libassuan = (static pkg.libassuan);
-        libgpgerror = (static pkg.libgpgerror);
-        libseccomp = (static pkg.libseccomp);
-        glib = (static pkg.glib).overrideAttrs (x: {
-          outputs = [ "bin" "out" "dev" ];
-          mesonFlags = [
-            "-Ddefault_library=static"
-            "-Ddevbindir=${placeholder ''dev''}/bin"
-            "-Dgtk_doc=false"
-            "-Dnls=disabled"
-          ];
-          postInstall = ''
-            moveToOutput "share/glib-2.0" "$dev"
-            substituteInPlace "$dev/bin/gdbus-codegen" --replace "$out" "$dev"
-            sed -i "$dev/bin/glib-gettextize" -e "s|^gettext_dir=.*|gettext_dir=$dev/share/glib-2.0/gettext|"
-            sed '1i#line 1 "${x.pname}-${x.version}/include/glib-2.0/gobject/gobjectnotifyqueue.c"' \
-              -i "$dev"/include/glib-2.0/gobject/gobjectnotifyqueue.c
-          '';
-        });
-        pcsclite = (static pkg.pcsclite).overrideAttrs (x: {
-          configureFlags = [
-            "--enable-confdir=/etc"
-            "--enable-usbdropdir=/var/lib/pcsc/drivers"
-            "--disable-libsystemd"
-            "--disable-libudev"
-            "--disable-libusb"
-          ];
-          buildInputs = [ pkgs.python3 pkgs.dbus ];
-        });
-        systemd = (static pkg.systemd).overrideAttrs (x: {
-          outputs = [ "out" "dev" ];
-          mesonFlags = x.mesonFlags ++ [
-            "-Dglib=false"
-            "-Dstatic-libsystemd=true"
-          ];
-        });
-      };
-    };
-  });
-
-  static = pkg: pkg.overrideAttrs (x: {
-    doCheck = false;
-    configureFlags = (x.configureFlags or [ ]) ++ [
-      "--without-shared"
-      "--disable-shared"
-    ];
-    dontDisableStatic = true;
-    enableSharedExecutables = false;
-    enableStatic = true;
-  });
-
-  self = with pkgs; buildGoModule rec {
-    name = "podman";
-    src = builtins.filterSource
-      (path: type: !(type == "directory" && baseNameOf path == "bin")) ./..;
-    vendorSha256 = null;
-    doCheck = false;
-    enableParallelBuilding = true;
-    outputs = [ "out" ];
-    nativeBuildInputs = [ bash gitMinimal go-md2man pkg-config which ];
-    buildInputs = [ glibc glibc.static glib gpgme libassuan libgpgerror libseccomp libapparmor libselinux ];
-    prePatch = ''
-      export CFLAGS='-static -pthread'
-      export LDFLAGS='-s -w -static-libgcc -static'
-      export EXTRA_LDFLAGS='-s -w -linkmode external -extldflags "-static -lm"'
-      export BUILDTAGS='static netgo osusergo exclude_graphdriver_btrfs exclude_graphdriver_devicemapper seccomp apparmor selinux'
-      export CGO_ENABLED=1
-    '';
-    buildPhase = ''
-      patchShebangs .
-      make bin/podman
-      make bin/podman-remote
-      make bin/rootlessport
-    '';
-    installPhase = ''
-      install -Dm755 bin/podman $out/bin/podman
-      install -Dm755 bin/podman-remote $out/bin/podman-remote
-      install -Dm755 bin/rootlessport $out/libexec/podman/rootlessport
-    '';
-  };
-in
-self
diff --git a/nix/nixpkgs.json b/nix/nixpkgs.json
deleted file mode 100644
index efcfe202e084..000000000000
--- a/nix/nixpkgs.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "url": "https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs",
-  "rev": "2a96414d7e350160a33ed0978449c9ff5b5a6eb3",
-  "date": "2021-07-13T18:21:47+02:00",
-  "path": "/nix/store/2ai9q8ac6vxb2rrngdz82y8jxnk15cvm-nixpkgs",
-  "sha256": "1dzrfqdjq3yq5jjskiqflzy58l2xx6059gay9p1k07zrlm1wigy5",
-  "fetchSubmodules": false,
-  "deepClone": false,
-  "leaveDotGit": false
-}
diff --git a/nix/nixpkgs.nix b/nix/nixpkgs.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 11c20380a630..000000000000
--- a/nix/nixpkgs.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-let
-  json = builtins.fromJSON (builtins.readFile ./nixpkgs.json);
-  nixpkgs = import (builtins.fetchTarball {
-    name = "nixos-unstable";
-    url = "${json.url}/archive/${json.rev}.tar.gz";
-    inherit (json) sha256;
-  });
-in
-nixpkgs