diff --git a/build-tools/lib/release.sh b/build-tools/lib/release.sh
index 1467b93cf2..6356436113 100644
--- a/build-tools/lib/release.sh
+++ b/build-tools/lib/release.sh
@@ -317,7 +317,6 @@ function kube::release::package_kube_manifests_tarball() {
   cp "${salt_dir}/cluster-autoscaler/cluster-autoscaler.manifest" "${dst_dir}/"
   cp "${salt_dir}/fluentd-es/fluentd-es.yaml" "${release_stage}/"
   cp "${salt_dir}/fluentd-gcp/fluentd-gcp.yaml" "${release_stage}/"
-  cp "${salt_dir}/fluentd-gcp-gci/fluentd-gcp-gci.yaml" "${release_stage}/"
   cp "${salt_dir}/kube-registry-proxy/kube-registry-proxy.yaml" "${release_stage}/"
   cp "${salt_dir}/kube-proxy/kube-proxy.manifest" "${release_stage}/"
   cp "${salt_dir}/etcd/etcd.manifest" "${dst_dir}"
diff --git a/cluster/gce/gci/configure-helper.sh b/cluster/gce/gci/configure-helper.sh
index fd016b7cdd..cfed3cba48 100644
--- a/cluster/gce/gci/configure-helper.sh
+++ b/cluster/gce/gci/configure-helper.sh
@@ -1109,7 +1109,7 @@ function start-fluentd {
   echo "Start fluentd pod"
   if [[ "${ENABLE_NODE_LOGGING:-}" == "true" ]]; then
     if [[ "${LOGGING_DESTINATION:-}" == "gcp" ]]; then
-      cp "${KUBE_HOME}/kube-manifests/kubernetes/fluentd-gcp-gci.yaml" /etc/kubernetes/manifests/
+      cp "${KUBE_HOME}/kube-manifests/kubernetes/fluentd-gcp.yaml" /etc/kubernetes/manifests/
     elif [[ "${LOGGING_DESTINATION:-}" == "elasticsearch" && "${KUBERNETES_MASTER:-}" != "true" ]]; then
       # Running fluentd-es on the master is pointless, as it can't communicate
       # with elasticsearch from there in the default configuration.
diff --git a/cluster/saltbase/salt/fluentd-gcp-gci/fluentd-gcp-gci.yaml b/cluster/saltbase/salt/fluentd-gcp-gci/fluentd-gcp-gci.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 893e9aadc5..0000000000
--- a/cluster/saltbase/salt/fluentd-gcp-gci/fluentd-gcp-gci.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,62 +0,0 @@
-# This config should be kept as similar as possible to the one at
-# cluster/saltbase/salt/fluentd-gcp/fluentd-gcp.yaml
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: Pod
-metadata:
-  name: fluentd-cloud-logging
-  namespace: kube-system
-  labels:
-    k8s-app: fluentd-logging
-spec:
-  dnsPolicy: Default
-  containers:
-  - name: fluentd-cloud-logging
-    image: gcr.io/google_containers/fluentd-gcp:1.28
-    command:
-      - '/bin/sh'
-      - '-c'
-      # This is pretty hacky, but ruby relies on libsystemd's native code, and
-      # the ubuntu:16.04 libsystemd doesn't play nice with the journal on GCI
-      # hosts. Work around the problem by copying in the host's libsystemd.
-      - 'rm /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsystemd* && cp /host/lib/libsystemd* /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ && /usr/sbin/td-agent -q -c /etc/td-agent/td-agent-journal.conf'
-    resources:
-      limits:
-        memory: 200Mi
-      requests:
-        # Any change here should be accompanied by a proportional change in CPU
-        # requests of other per-node add-ons (e.g. kube-proxy).
-        cpu: 100m
-        memory: 200Mi
-    env:
-    # Jemalloc is a widely used way to decrease memory consumption
-    # in Ruby world. It's a better implementation of malloc(3).
-    - name: "LD_PRELOAD"
-      value: "/opt/td-agent/embedded/lib/libjemalloc.so"
-    # This is quite hacky, but forces Ruby GC to be ivoked more often
-    # resulting in lower memory consumption, which is important for us.
-    - name: "RUBY_GC_HEAP_OLDOBJECT_LIMIT_FACTOR"
-      value: "0.9"
-    volumeMounts:
-    - name: varlog
-      mountPath: /var/log
-    - name: varlibdockercontainers
-      mountPath: /var/lib/docker/containers
-      readOnly: true
-    - name: journaldir
-      mountPath: /var/log/journal
-    - name: libsystemddir
-      mountPath: /host/lib
-  terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 30
-  volumes:
-  - name: varlog
-    hostPath:
-      path: /var/log
-  - name: varlibdockercontainers
-    hostPath:
-      path: /var/lib/docker/containers
-  - name: journaldir
-    hostPath:
-      path: /var/log/journal
-  - name: libsystemddir
-    hostPath:
-      path: /usr/lib64
diff --git a/cluster/saltbase/salt/fluentd-gcp/fluentd-gcp.yaml b/cluster/saltbase/salt/fluentd-gcp/fluentd-gcp.yaml
index 39a81ba5c3..8ed611e7b9 100644
--- a/cluster/saltbase/salt/fluentd-gcp/fluentd-gcp.yaml
+++ b/cluster/saltbase/salt/fluentd-gcp/fluentd-gcp.yaml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ spec:
   dnsPolicy: Default
   containers:
   - name: fluentd-cloud-logging
-    image: gcr.io/google_containers/fluentd-gcp:1.28
+    image: gcr.io/google_containers/fluentd-gcp:1.29
     resources:
       limits:
         memory: 200Mi
@@ -23,20 +23,14 @@ spec:
     env:
     - name: FLUENTD_ARGS
       value: -q
-    # Jemalloc is a widely used way to decrease memory consumption
-    # in Ruby world. It's a better implementation of malloc(3).
-    - name: "LD_PRELOAD"
-      value: "/opt/td-agent/embedded/lib/libjemalloc.so"
-    # This is quite hacky, but forces Ruby GC to be ivoked more often
-    # resulting in lower memory consumption, which is important for us.
-    - name: "RUBY_GC_HEAP_OLDOBJECT_LIMIT_FACTOR"
-      value: "0.9"
     volumeMounts:
     - name: varlog
       mountPath: /var/log
     - name: varlibdockercontainers
       mountPath: /var/lib/docker/containers
       readOnly: true
+    - name: libsystemddir
+      mountPath: /host/lib
   terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 30
   volumes:
   - name: varlog
@@ -45,4 +39,6 @@ spec:
   - name: varlibdockercontainers
     hostPath:
       path: /var/lib/docker/containers
-
+  - name: libsystemddir
+    hostPath:
+      path: /usr/lib64