diff --git a/.github/.OwlBot.lock.yaml b/.github/.OwlBot.lock.yaml
index f3ca5561..cb86baf8 100644
--- a/.github/.OwlBot.lock.yaml
+++ b/.github/.OwlBot.lock.yaml
@@ -13,5 +13,5 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 docker:
   image: gcr.io/cloud-devrel-public-resources/owlbot-nodejs:latest
-  digest: sha256:ddb19a6df6c1fa081bc99fb29658f306dd64668bc26f75d1353b28296f3a78e6
-# created: 2022-06-07T21:18:30.024751809Z
+  digest: sha256:7fefeb9e517db2dd8c8202d9239ff6788d6852bc92dd3aac57a46059679ac9de
+# created: 2022-08-24T19:44:03.464675104Z
diff --git a/.kokoro/publish.sh b/.kokoro/publish.sh
index 77a5defb..949e3e1d 100755
--- a/.kokoro/publish.sh
+++ b/.kokoro/publish.sh
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ set -eo pipefail
 export NPM_CONFIG_PREFIX=${HOME}/.npm-global
 
 # Start the releasetool reporter
-python3 -m pip install gcp-releasetool
 python3 -m releasetool publish-reporter-script > /tmp/publisher-script; source /tmp/publisher-script
 
 cd $(dirname $0)/..
diff --git a/.kokoro/release/docs.sh b/.kokoro/release/docs.sh
index 4c866c86..1d8f3f49 100755
--- a/.kokoro/release/docs.sh
+++ b/.kokoro/release/docs.sh
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ npm run docs
 
 # create docs.metadata, based on package.json and .repo-metadata.json.
 npm i json@9.0.6 -g
-python3 -m pip install --user gcp-docuploader
 python3 -m docuploader create-metadata \
   --name=$(cat .repo-metadata.json | json name) \
   --version=$(cat package.json | json version) \