diff --git a/tools/collections/README.md b/tools/collections/README.md
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-### Inventory Updates Cross-Development with Collections
-
-Inventory updates in production use vendored collections baked into the image,
-which are downloaded from Ansible Galaxy in the build steps.
-
-This gives instructions to short-circuit that process for a faster development process.
-
-Running this script will do a `git clone` for all the relevant collections
-into the folder `awx/plugins/collections`.
-
-```
-source tools/collections/clone_vendor.sh
-```
-
-After this is completed, you must change the path where the server looks
-for the vendored inventory collections.
-Add this line to your local settings:
-
-```
-AWX_ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATHS = '/awx_devel/awx/plugins/collections'
-```
-
-Then when you run an inventory update of a particular type, it should
-use the cloned collection.
-This allows you to cd into a particular collection, add remotes,
-change branches, etc.
-
-#### Extra Build Steps
-
-This will not work correctly in all circumstances.
-Some collections make changes at build-time.
-
-In particular, the foreman inventory plugin needs the NAME attribute changed to
-the fully-qualified collection name, and will fail if this is not done.
diff --git a/tools/collections/clone_vendor.sh b/tools/collections/clone_vendor.sh
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-#!/bin/bash
-
-base_dir=awx/plugins/collections/ansible_collections
-
-if [ ! -d "$base_dir/azure/azcollection" ]
-then
-	mkdir -p $base_dir/azure
-	git clone https://github.com/ansible-collections/azure.git $base_dir/azure/azcollection
-else
-  echo "Azure collection already exists"
-fi
-
-if [ ! -d "$base_dir/ansible/amazon" ]
-then
-	mkdir -p $base_dir/ansible
-	git clone https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.amazon.git $base_dir/ansible/amazon
-else
-  echo "Amazon collection already exists"
-fi
-
-if [ ! -d "$base_dir/theforeman/foreman" ]
-then
-	mkdir -p $base_dir/theforeman
-	git clone https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-ansible-modules.git $base_dir/theforeman/foreman
-else
-  echo "foreman collection already exists"
-fi
-
-if [ ! -d "$base_dir/google/cloud" ]
-then
-	mkdir -p $base_dir/google
-	git clone https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible_collections_google.git $base_dir/google/cloud
-else
-  echo "google collection already exists"
-fi
-
-if [ ! -d "$base_dir/openstack/cloud" ]
-then
-	mkdir -p $base_dir/openstack
-	git clone https://github.com/openstack/ansible-collections-openstack.git $base_dir/openstack/cloud
-else
-  echo "openstack collection already exists"
-fi
-
-if [ ! -d "$base_dir/community/vmware" ]
-then
-	mkdir -p $base_dir/community
-	git clone https://github.com/ansible-collections/vmware.git $base_dir/community/vmware
-else
-  echo "VMWare collection already exists"
-fi
-
-if [ ! -d "$base_dir/ovirt/ovirt" ]
-then
-	mkdir -p $base_dir/ovirt
-	git clone https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-ansible-collection.git $base_dir/ovirt/ovirt
-else
-  echo "Ovirt collection already exists"
-fi
-
-if [ ! -d "$base_dir/awx/awx" ]
-then
-	mkdir -p $base_dir/awx
-  ln -s $(shell pwd)/awx_collection $base_dir/awx/awx
-else
-  echo "awx collection already exists"
-fi
-
-echo "-- confirmation of what is installed --"
-ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATHS=awx/plugins/collections ansible-galaxy collection list