diff --git a/run.sh b/run.sh
index efdc2990..68430969 100755
--- a/run.sh
+++ b/run.sh
@@ -1,59 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
-#plagiarized from wangxian/alpine-mysql
-if [ -d /app/mysql ]; then
-  echo "[i] MySQL directory already present, skipping creation"
-else
-  echo "[i] MySQL data directory not found, creating initial DBs"
-
-  mysql_install_db --user=root > /dev/null
-
-  if [ "$MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD" = "" ]; then
-    MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=111111
-    echo "[i] MySQL root Password: $MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD"
-  fi
-
-  MYSQL_DATABASE=${MYSQL_DATABASE}
-  MYSQL_USER=${MYSQL_USER}
-  MYSQL_PASSWORD=${MYSQL_PASSWORD}
-
-  if [ ! -d "/run/mysqld" ]; then
-    mkdir -p /run/mysqld
-  fi
-
-  tfile=`mktemp`
-  if [ ! -f "$tfile" ]; then
-      return 1
-  fi
-
-  cat << EOF > $tfile
-USE mysql;
-FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
-GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY "$MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD" WITH GRANT OPTION;
-GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION;
-DROP USER ''@'${HOSTNAME}';
-DROP USER 'root'@'${HOSTNAME}';
-DROP USER 'root'@'localhost';
-DROP USER 'root'@'127.0.0.1';
-DROP USER 'root'@'::1';
-DROP USER ''@'localhost';
-UPDATE user SET password=PASSWORD("${MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD}") WHERE user='root' AND host='%';
-EOF
-
-  if [ "$MYSQL_DATABASE" != "" ]; then
-    echo "[i] Creating database: $MYSQL_DATABASE"
-    echo "CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS \`$MYSQL_DATABASE\` CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;" >> $tfile
-
-    if [ "$MYSQL_USER" != "" ]; then
-      echo "[i] Creating user: $MYSQL_USER with password $MYSQL_PASSWORD"
-      echo "GRANT ALL ON \`$MYSQL_DATABASE\`.* to '$MYSQL_USER'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY '$MYSQL_PASSWORD';" >> $tfile
-    fi
-  fi
-
-  /usr/bin/mysqld --user=root --bootstrap --verbose=0 < $tfile
-  rm -f $tfile
-fi
-
 envsubst < config.template.yaml > config.yaml
 
 mysqld --user=root &