diff --git a/changelog/changes/2024-04-02-remove-actool-and-acbuild.md b/changelog/changes/2024-04-02-remove-actool-and-acbuild.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..07e619e542
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/changes/2024-04-02-remove-actool-and-acbuild.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+- Removed `actool` from the image and `acbuild` from the SDK as these tools are deprecated and not used ([scripts#1817](https://github.com/flatcar/scripts/pull/1817))
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/acbuild/acbuild-0.4.0.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/acbuild/acbuild-0.4.0.ebuild
deleted file mode 120000
index 64278d411f..0000000000
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/acbuild/acbuild-0.4.0.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-acbuild-9999.ebuild
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/acbuild/acbuild-9999.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/acbuild/acbuild-9999.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index ca430b3f2b..0000000000
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/acbuild/acbuild-9999.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,49 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright (c) 2015 CoreOS, Inc.
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=7
-CROS_WORKON_PROJECT="appc/acbuild"
-CROS_WORKON_REPO="https://github.com"
-CROS_WORKON_LOCALNAME="appc-acbuild"
-COREOS_GO_PACKAGE="github.com/appc/acbuild"
-COREOS_GO_GO111MODULE="off"
-inherit coreos-go toolchain-funcs cros-workon
-
-if [[ "${PV}" == 9999 ]]; then
-    KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64"
-else
-    CROS_WORKON_COMMIT="2d120a832bd4c3601ca307bf7dd1612a12b55d29" # v0.4.0
-    KEYWORDS="amd64 arm64"
-fi
-
-DESCRIPTION="A build tool for ACIs"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/appc/acbuild"
-SRC_URI=""
-
-LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
-SLOT="0"
-IUSE=""
-
-RDEPEND="sys-apps/kmod
-	app-crypt/gnupg
-	sys-apps/systemd"
-
-src_compile(){
-	if [[ "${PV}" == 9999 ]]; then
-		# set semver
-		local v
-		v=$(git describe --long --dirty) || die
-		v=${v#v}
-		v=${v/-/+}
-		GO_LDFLAGS="-X ${COREOS_GO_PACKAGE}/lib.Version=${v}"
-	else
-		GO_LDFLAGS="-X ${COREOS_GO_PACKAGE}/lib.Version=${PV}"
-	fi
-
-	go_build "${COREOS_GO_PACKAGE}/acbuild"
-}
-
-src_install(){
-	dobin "${WORKDIR}/gopath/bin/acbuild"
-}
-
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/actool/actool-0.8.11.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/actool/actool-0.8.11.ebuild
deleted file mode 120000
index 394b35eae1..0000000000
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/actool/actool-0.8.11.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-actool-9999.ebuild
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/actool/actool-9999.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/actool/actool-9999.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 03ed2192cd..0000000000
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/actool/actool-9999.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright (c) 2015 CoreOS, Inc.
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=7
-CROS_WORKON_PROJECT="appc/spec"
-CROS_WORKON_REPO="https://github.com"
-CROS_WORKON_LOCALNAME="appc-spec"
-COREOS_GO_PACKAGE="github.com/appc/spec"
-COREOS_GO_GO111MODULE="off"
-inherit coreos-go cros-workon
-
-if [[ "${PV}" == 9999 ]]; then
-    KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64"
-else
-    CROS_WORKON_COMMIT="cbe99b7160b1397bf89f9c8bb1418f69c9424049" # v0.8.11
-    KEYWORDS="amd64 arm64"
-fi
-
-DESCRIPTION="App Container builder and validator"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/appc/spec"
-SRC_URI=""
-
-LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
-SLOT="0"
-IUSE=""
-
-src_compile() {
-	go_build "${COREOS_GO_PACKAGE}/actool"
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	dobin "${WORKDIR}/gopath/bin/actool"
-}
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/actool/metadata.xml b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/actool/metadata.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 097975e3ad..0000000000
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/actool/metadata.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
-<pkgmetadata>
-</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/coreos/coreos-0.0.1.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/coreos/coreos-0.0.1.ebuild
index a91885d554..9a7bb239af 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/coreos/coreos-0.0.1.ebuild
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/coreos/coreos-0.0.1.ebuild
@@ -106,7 +106,6 @@ RDEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 	app-crypt/go-tspi
 	app-crypt/tpmpolicy
 	app-editors/vim
-	app-emulation/actool
 	app-containers/cri-tools
 	app-misc/ca-certificates
 	app-misc/jq
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-devel/sdk-depends/sdk-depends-0.0.1.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-devel/sdk-depends/sdk-depends-0.0.1.ebuild
index 717429e807..3fa37ea36a 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-devel/sdk-depends/sdk-depends-0.0.1.ebuild
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-devel/sdk-depends/sdk-depends-0.0.1.ebuild
@@ -19,8 +19,6 @@ DEPEND="
 	app-arch/pbzip2
 	app-crypt/efitools
 	app-crypt/sbsigntools
-	app-emulation/acbuild
-	app-emulation/actool
 	app-emulation/open-vmdk
 	app-eselect/eselect-python
 	app-misc/jq