diff --git a/deploy-indexer.sh b/deploy-indexer.sh
index 15d7f83ad..973aa25e4 100755
--- a/deploy-indexer.sh
+++ b/deploy-indexer.sh
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ set -e
 docker create \
     --name=indexer \
     --network=sourcegraph \
-    --privileged \
     -e SOURCEGRAPH_CONFIG_FILE=/etc/sourcegraph/config.json \
     -e LSP_PROXY=lsp-proxy:4388 \
     -e PGDATABASE=sg \
diff --git a/deploy-query-runner.sh b/deploy-query-runner.sh
index 3cfc20e77..872aafacf 100755
--- a/deploy-query-runner.sh
+++ b/deploy-query-runner.sh
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ set -e
 docker create \
     --name=query-runner \
     --network=sourcegraph \
-    --privileged \
     -e SOURCEGRAPH_CONFIG_FILE=/etc/sourcegraph/config.json \
     -e SRC_GIT_SERVERS=gitserver-0:3178 \
     -e SRC_FRONTEND_INTERNAL=sourcegraph-frontend-internal:3090 \
diff --git a/deploy-repo-updater.sh b/deploy-repo-updater.sh
index 312ab1cad..e77f8244f 100755
--- a/deploy-repo-updater.sh
+++ b/deploy-repo-updater.sh
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ set -e
 docker create \
     --name=repo-updater \
     --network=sourcegraph \
-    --privileged \
     -e SOURCEGRAPH_CONFIG_FILE=/etc/sourcegraph/config.json \
     -e SRC_GIT_SERVERS=gitserver-0:3178 \
     -e SRC_FRONTEND_INTERNAL=sourcegraph-frontend-internal:3090 \
diff --git a/deploy-zoekt-indexserver.sh b/deploy-zoekt-indexserver.sh
index e2822b06f..273db134d 100755
--- a/deploy-zoekt-indexserver.sh
+++ b/deploy-zoekt-indexserver.sh
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ set -e
 docker run --detach \
     --name=zoekt-indexserver \
     --network=sourcegraph \
-    --privileged \
     -e SRC_FRONTEND_INTERNAL=sourcegraph-frontend-internal:3090 \
     sourcegraph/zoekt:18-09-14_2f4b0f2@sha256:c51363fc9c8ad8fee2909593bb37475afb04f5ddb5fa67a580b260ab7abcd377 \
     zoekt-sourcegraph-indexserver -index /data/index -sourcegraph_url http://sourcegraph-frontend-internal:3090 -listen :6072 -interval 1m -cpu_fraction "1.0" # command