diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.bazelrc b/.github/workflows/ci.bazelrc
deleted file mode 100644
index bd2d20b46d..0000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.bazelrc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-# Bazel settings to apply on CI only
-# Included with a --bazelrc option in the call to bazel
-build --announce_rc
-test --test_output=errors
-build --disk_cache=$HOME/.cache/bazel
-build --repository_cache=$HOME/.cache/bazel-repo
-# For bazel-in-bazel testing
-test --test_env=XDG_CACHE_HOME
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index b6bba429bb..a675fe1562 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -12,11 +12,6 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v2
-      - name: bazel test //...
-        env:
-          # Bazelisk will download bazel to here
-          XDG_CACHE_HOME: ~/.cache/bazel-repo
-        run: bazel --bazelrc=.github/workflows/ci.bazelrc --bazelrc=.bazelrc test //...
       - name: Prepare workspace snippet
         run: .github/workflows/workspace_snippet.sh ${{ env.GITHUB_REF_NAME }} > release_notes.txt
       - name: Release