diff --git a/opencga-app/app/cloud/docker/opencga-init/override_yaml.py b/opencga-app/app/cloud/docker/opencga-init/override_yaml.py
index 1993f85232b..b789aec901b 100644
--- a/opencga-app/app/cloud/docker/opencga-init/override_yaml.py
+++ b/opencga-app/app/cloud/docker/opencga-init/override_yaml.py
@@ -138,13 +138,6 @@ def hostOverride(conf,hosts_var):
 if args.catalog_database_authentication_mechanism is not None:
     config["catalog"]["database"]["options"]["authenticationMechanism"] = args.catalog_database_authentication_mechanism
 
-# Inject search database
-hostOverride(config["catalog"]["searchEngine"], args.catalog_search_hosts)
-
-if args.catalog_search_user is not None:
-    config["catalog"]["searchEngine"]["user"] = args.catalog_search_user
-    config["catalog"]["searchEngine"]["password"] = args.catalog_search_password
-
 # Inject execution settings
 config["analysis"]["scratchDir"] = "/tmp/opencga_scratch"
 if args.max_concurrent_jobs is not None: