diff --git a/builder/digitalocean/builder.go b/builder/digitalocean/builder.go
index 57e6018a1..3292bea10 100644
--- a/builder/digitalocean/builder.go
+++ b/builder/digitalocean/builder.go
@@ -66,7 +66,6 @@ type Config struct {
 	stateTimeout time.Duration
 
 	ctx *interpolate.Context
-	tpl *packer.ConfigTemplate
 }
 
 type Builder struct {
diff --git a/packer/config_template.go b/packer/config_template.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 47b096227..000000000
--- a/packer/config_template.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,139 +0,0 @@
-package packer
-
-import (
-	"bytes"
-	"fmt"
-	"os"
-	"strconv"
-	"strings"
-	"text/template"
-	"time"
-
-	"github.com/mitchellh/packer/common/uuid"
-)
-
-// InitTime is the UTC time when this package was initialized. It is
-// used as the timestamp for all configuration templates so that they
-// match for a single build.
-var InitTime time.Time
-
-func init() {
-	InitTime = time.Now().UTC()
-}
-
-// ConfigTemplate processes string data as a text/template with some common
-// elements and functions available. Plugin creators should process as
-// many fields as possible through this.
-type ConfigTemplate struct {
-	UserVars map[string]string
-
-	root *template.Template
-	i    int
-}
-
-// NewConfigTemplate creates a new configuration template processor.
-func NewConfigTemplate() (*ConfigTemplate, error) {
-	result := &ConfigTemplate{
-		UserVars: make(map[string]string),
-	}
-
-	result.root = template.New("configTemplateRoot")
-	result.root.Funcs(template.FuncMap{
-		"env":       templateDisableEnv,
-		"pwd":       templatePwd,
-		"isotime":   templateISOTime,
-		"timestamp": templateTimestamp,
-		"user":      result.templateUser,
-		"uuid":      templateUuid,
-		"upper":     strings.ToUpper,
-		"lower":     strings.ToLower,
-	})
-
-	return result, nil
-}
-
-// Process processes a single string, compiling and executing the template.
-func (t *ConfigTemplate) Process(s string, data interface{}) (string, error) {
-	tpl, err := t.root.New(t.nextTemplateName()).Parse(s)
-	if err != nil {
-		return "", err
-	}
-
-	buf := new(bytes.Buffer)
-	if err := tpl.Execute(buf, data); err != nil {
-		return "", err
-	}
-
-	return buf.String(), nil
-}
-
-// Validate the template.
-func (t *ConfigTemplate) Validate(s string) error {
-	root, err := t.root.Clone()
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-
-	_, err = root.New("template").Parse(s)
-	return err
-}
-
-// Add additional functions to the template
-func (t *ConfigTemplate) Funcs(funcs template.FuncMap) {
-	t.root.Funcs(funcs)
-}
-
-func (t *ConfigTemplate) nextTemplateName() string {
-	name := fmt.Sprintf("tpl%d", t.i)
-	t.i++
-	return name
-}
-
-// User is the function exposed as "user" within the templates and
-// looks up user variables.
-func (t *ConfigTemplate) templateUser(n string) (string, error) {
-	result, ok := t.UserVars[n]
-	if !ok {
-		return "", fmt.Errorf("unknown user var: %s", n)
-	}
-
-	return result, nil
-}
-
-func templateDisableEnv(n string) (string, error) {
-	return "", fmt.Errorf(
-		"Environmental variables can only be used as default values for user variables.")
-}
-
-func templateDisableUser(n string) (string, error) {
-	return "", fmt.Errorf(
-		"User variable can't be used within a default value for a user variable: %s", n)
-}
-
-func templateEnv(n string) string {
-	return os.Getenv(n)
-}
-
-func templateISOTime(timeFormat ...string) (string, error) {
-	if len(timeFormat) == 0 {
-		return time.Now().UTC().Format(time.RFC3339), nil
-	}
-
-	if len(timeFormat) > 1 {
-		return "", fmt.Errorf("too many values, 1 needed: %v", timeFormat)
-	}
-
-	return time.Now().UTC().Format(timeFormat[0]), nil
-}
-
-func templatePwd() (string, error) {
-	return os.Getwd()
-}
-
-func templateTimestamp() string {
-	return strconv.FormatInt(InitTime.Unix(), 10)
-}
-
-func templateUuid() string {
-	return uuid.TimeOrderedUUID()
-}
diff --git a/packer/config_template_test.go b/packer/config_template_test.go
deleted file mode 100644
index cdc5fd461..000000000
--- a/packer/config_template_test.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,214 +0,0 @@
-package packer
-
-import (
-	"fmt"
-	"math"
-	"os"
-	"strconv"
-	"testing"
-	"time"
-)
-
-func TestConfigTemplateProcess_env(t *testing.T) {
-	tpl, err := NewConfigTemplate()
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("err: %s", err)
-	}
-
-	_, err = tpl.Process(`{{env "foo"}}`, nil)
-	if err == nil {
-		t.Fatal("should error")
-	}
-}
-
-func TestConfigTemplateProcess_isotime(t *testing.T) {
-	tpl, err := NewConfigTemplate()
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("err: %s", err)
-	}
-
-	result, err := tpl.Process(`{{isotime}}`, nil)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("err: %s", err)
-	}
-
-	val, err := time.Parse(time.RFC3339, result)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("err: %s", err)
-	}
-
-	currentTime := time.Now().UTC()
-	if currentTime.Sub(val) > 2*time.Second {
-		t.Fatalf("val: %d (current: %d)", val, currentTime)
-	}
-}
-
-// Note must format with the magic Date: Mon Jan 2 15:04:05 -0700 MST 2006
-func TestConfigTemplateProcess_isotime_withFormat(t *testing.T) {
-	tpl, err := NewConfigTemplate()
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("err: %s", err)
-	}
-
-	// Checking for a too-many arguments error
-	// Because of the variadic function, compile time checking won't work
-	_, err = tpl.Process(`{{isotime "20060102" "huh"}}`, nil)
-	if err == nil {
-		t.Fatalf("err: cannot have more than 1 input")
-	}
-
-	result, err := tpl.Process(`{{isotime "20060102"}}`, nil)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("err: %s", err)
-	}
-
-	ti := time.Now().UTC()
-	val := fmt.Sprintf("%04d%02d%02d", ti.Year(), ti.Month(), ti.Day())
-
-	if result != val {
-		t.Fatalf("val: %s (formated: %s)", val, result)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestConfigTemplateProcess_pwd(t *testing.T) {
-	tpl, err := NewConfigTemplate()
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("err: %s", err)
-	}
-
-	pwd, err := os.Getwd()
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("err: %s", err)
-	}
-
-	result, err := tpl.Process(`{{pwd}}`, nil)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("err: %s", err)
-	}
-
-	if result != pwd {
-		t.Fatalf("err: %s", result)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestConfigTemplateProcess_timestamp(t *testing.T) {
-	tpl, err := NewConfigTemplate()
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("err: %s", err)
-	}
-
-	result, err := tpl.Process(`{{timestamp}}`, nil)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("err: %s", err)
-	}
-
-	val, err := strconv.ParseInt(result, 10, 64)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("err: %s", err)
-	}
-
-	currentTime := time.Now().UTC().Unix()
-	if math.Abs(float64(currentTime-val)) > 10 {
-		t.Fatalf("val: %d (current: %d)", val, currentTime)
-	}
-
-	time.Sleep(2 * time.Second)
-
-	result2, err := tpl.Process(`{{timestamp}}`, nil)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("err: %s", err)
-	}
-
-	if result != result2 {
-		t.Fatalf("bad: %#v %#v", result, result2)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestConfigTemplateProcess_user(t *testing.T) {
-	tpl, err := NewConfigTemplate()
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("err: %s", err)
-	}
-
-	tpl.UserVars["foo"] = "bar"
-
-	result, err := tpl.Process(`{{user "foo"}}`, nil)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("err: %s", err)
-	}
-
-	if result != "bar" {
-		t.Fatalf("bad: %s", result)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestConfigTemplateProcess_uuid(t *testing.T) {
-	tpl, err := NewConfigTemplate()
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("err: %s", err)
-	}
-
-	result, err := tpl.Process(`{{uuid}}`, nil)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("err: %s", err)
-	}
-
-	if len(result) != 36 {
-		t.Fatalf("err: %s", result)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestConfigTemplateProcess_upper(t *testing.T) {
-	tpl, err := NewConfigTemplate()
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("err: %s", err)
-	}
-
-	tpl.UserVars["foo"] = "bar"
-
-	result, err := tpl.Process(`{{user "foo" | upper}}`, nil)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("err: %s", err)
-	}
-
-	if result != "BAR" {
-		t.Fatalf("bad: %s", result)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestConfigTemplateProcess_lower(t *testing.T) {
-	tpl, err := NewConfigTemplate()
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("err: %s", err)
-	}
-
-	tpl.UserVars["foo"] = "BAR"
-
-	result, err := tpl.Process(`{{user "foo" | lower}}`, nil)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("err: %s", err)
-	}
-
-	if result != "bar" {
-		t.Fatalf("bad: %s", result)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestConfigTemplateValidate(t *testing.T) {
-	tpl, err := NewConfigTemplate()
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("err: %s", err)
-	}
-
-	// Valid
-	err = tpl.Validate(`{{user "foo"}}`)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("err: %s", err)
-	}
-
-	// Invalid
-	err = tpl.Validate(`{{idontexist}}`)
-	if err == nil {
-		t.Fatal("should have error")
-	}
-}