diff --git a/checkstyle.xml b/checkstyle.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 0f171cee..00000000
--- a/checkstyle.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,133 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  Copyright 2021 Flyte 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.
--->
-<!DOCTYPE module PUBLIC
-    "-//Checkstyle//DTD Checkstyle Configuration 1.3//EN"
-    "https://checkstyle.org/dtds/configuration_1_3.dtd">
-
-<!-- This is a checkstyle configuration file. For descriptions of
-what the following rules do, please see the checkstyle configuration
-page at http://checkstyle.sf.net/config.html -->
-
-<module name="Checker">
-  <property name="severity" value="error"/>
-
-  <module name="BeforeExecutionExclusionFileFilter">
-    <property name="fileNamePattern" value=".*/generated-sources/.*"/>
-  </module>
-
-  <!-- Allow turning checks off in the code using @SuppressWarnings annotation -->
-  <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_filters.html#SuppressWarningsFilter -->
-  <module name="SuppressWarningsFilter"/>
-
-  <!-- Check that every module has a package-info.java -->
-  <module name="JavadocPackage"/>
-
-  <module name="SuppressionFilter">
-    <property name="file" value="${checkstyle.suppressions.file}" default="suppressions.xml" />
-  </module>
-
-  <module name="LineLength">
-    <property name="max" value="120"/>
-    <property name="ignorePattern" value="^package.*|^import.*|a href|href|http://|https://|ftp://"/>
-  </module>
-
-  <!-- All Java AST specific tests live under TreeWalker module. -->
-  <module name="TreeWalker">
-    <!-- Required to work in pair with SuppressWarningsFilter-->
-    <module name="SuppressWarningsHolder" />
-
-    <module name="MissingDeprecated" />
-
-    <module name="AvoidStarImport" />
-
-    <module name="IllegalImport">
-      <property name="illegalPkgs" value="autovalue.shaded"/>
-    </module>
-
-    <module name="RedundantModifier">
-      <property name="tokens" value="METHOD_DEF, VARIABLE_DEF, ANNOTATION_FIELD_DEF, INTERFACE_DEF, CLASS_DEF, ENUM_DEF"/>
-    </module>
-
-    <module name="PackageDeclaration" />
-
-    <module name="NeedBraces">
-      <property name="severity" value="error"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="LITERAL_IF, LITERAL_ELSE, LITERAL_FOR, LITERAL_WHILE, LITERAL_DO"/>
-    </module>
-
-    <!-- Checks that long constants are defined with an upper ell.-->
-    <module name="UpperEll" />
-
-    <module name="SimplifyBooleanExpression" />
-
-    <!-- Checks for Javadoc comments. -->
-    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_javadoc.html -->
-    <module name="JavadocMethod">
-      <property name="scope" value="public"/>
-      <property name="allowMissingParamTags" value="true"/>
-      <property name="allowMissingReturnTag" value="true"/>
-      <property name="allowedAnnotations" value="Override, Test"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="METHOD_DEF, CTOR_DEF, ANNOTATION_FIELD_DEF"/>
-    </module>
-
-    <module name="JavadocParagraph"/>
-
-    <module name="JavadocType">
-      <property name="scope" value="protected"/>
-      <property name="allowMissingParamTags" value="true"/>
-    </module>
-
-    <module name="JavadocStyle">
-      <property name="checkHtml" value="true"/>
-    </module>
-
-    <!-- Checks for naming. -->
-    <module name="MethodName">
-      <property name="format" value="^[a-z]([a-z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9_]*)?_?$"/>
-    </module>
-
-    <module name="ParameterName">
-      <property name="format" value="^[a-z]([a-z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9_]*)?_?$"/>
-    </module>
-
-    <module name="PackageName">
-      <property name="format" value="^[a-z]+(\.[a-z][a-z0-9]{1,})*$"/>
-    </module>
-
-    <module name="TypeName" />
-    <module name="LocalFinalVariableName" />
-    <module name="LocalVariableName">
-      <property name="format" value="^[a-z]([a-z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9_]*)?_?$"/>
-    </module>
-
-    <!-- Type parameters must be either one of the four blessed letters
-    T, K, V, W, X or else be capital-case terminated with a T,
-    such as MyGenericParameterT -->
-    <module name="ClassTypeParameterName">
-      <property name="format" value="^(((T|K|V|W|X)[0-9]*)|([A-Z][a-z][a-zA-Z]*T))$"/>
-    </module>
-
-    <module name="MethodTypeParameterName">
-      <property name="format" value="^(((T|K|V|W|X)[0-9]*)|([A-Z][a-z][a-zA-Z]*T))$"/>
-    </module>
-
-    <module name="InterfaceTypeParameterName">
-      <property name="format" value="^(((T|K|V|W|X)[0-9]*)|([A-Z][a-z][a-zA-Z]*T))$"/>
-    </module>
-  </module>
-</module>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index a416f274..81f8504c 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -656,26 +656,6 @@
             </execution>
           </executions>
         </plugin>
-        <plugin>
-          <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
-          <version>3.1.1</version>
-          <configuration>
-            <configLocation>checkstyle.xml</configLocation>
-            <consoleOutput>true</consoleOutput>
-            <!-- Remove or switch to false to keep building even with checkstyle errors -->
-            <failOnViolation>true</failOnViolation>
-            <logViolationsToConsole>true</logViolationsToConsole>
-            <encoding>utf-8</encoding>
-          </configuration>
-          <executions>
-            <execution>
-              <goals>
-                <goal>check</goal>
-              </goals>
-              <phase>verify</phase>
-            </execution>
-          </executions>
-        </plugin>
         <plugin>
           <groupId>org.apache.rat</groupId>
           <artifactId>apache-rat-plugin</artifactId>
@@ -688,7 +668,6 @@
             <excludes>
               <!-- Generated during build to shade dependencies -->
               <exclude>**/dependency-reduced-pom.xml</exclude>
-              <exclude>**/target/checkstyle-result.xml</exclude>
               <exclude>**/target/javadoc-bundle-options/javadoc-options-javadoc-resources.xml</exclude>
             </excludes>
           </configuration>
@@ -795,9 +774,6 @@
         <groupId>org.apache.rat</groupId>
         <artifactId>apache-rat-plugin</artifactId>
       </plugin>
-      <plugin>
-        <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
-      </plugin>
       <plugin>
         <artifactId>maven-enforcer-plugin</artifactId>
       </plugin>