diff --git a/images/base/build.sh b/images/base/build.sh
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-#!/bin/bash
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-# Copyright 2019 The Kubernetes Authors.
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-set -o errexit -o nounset -o pipefail
-
-# cd to the repo root
-REPO_ROOT="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/../.." && pwd -P)"
-cd "${REPO_ROOT}"
-
-# generate tag
-TAG="${TAG:-"$(date +v%Y%m%d)-$(git describe --always --dirty)"}"
-IMAGE="${IMAGE:-"kindest/base:${TAG}"}"
-
-# build
-cd "${REPO_ROOT}/images/base/"
-docker build --no-cache --pull -t "${IMAGE}" .
diff --git a/images/base/push.sh b/images/base/push.sh
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-#!/bin/bash
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-# Copyright 2019 The Kubernetes Authors.
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-set -o errexit -o nounset -o pipefail
-
-# cd to the repo root
-REPO_ROOT="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/../.." && pwd -P)"
-cd "${REPO_ROOT}"
-
-set -x;
-# generate tag
-TAG="${TAG:-"$(date +v%Y%m%d)-$(git describe --always --dirty)"}"
-IMAGE="kindest/base:${TAG}"
-export TAG
-export IMAGE
-
-# build
-"${REPO_ROOT}"/images/base/build.sh
-
-# push
-docker push "${IMAGE}"