diff --git a/pkg/api/legacyscheme/BUILD b/pkg/api/legacyscheme/BUILD
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a89259349b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/api/legacyscheme/BUILD
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+load("@io_bazel_rules_go//go:def.bzl", "go_library")
+
+go_library(
+    name = "go_default_library",
+    srcs = ["scheme.go"],
+    visibility = ["//visibility:public"],
+    deps = [
+        "//vendor/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apimachinery/announced:go_default_library",
+        "//vendor/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apimachinery/registered:go_default_library",
+        "//vendor/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime:go_default_library",
+        "//vendor/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/serializer:go_default_library",
+    ],
+)
+
+filegroup(
+    name = "package-srcs",
+    srcs = glob(["**"]),
+    tags = ["automanaged"],
+    visibility = ["//visibility:private"],
+)
+
+filegroup(
+    name = "all-srcs",
+    srcs = [":package-srcs"],
+    tags = ["automanaged"],
+    visibility = ["//visibility:public"],
+)
diff --git a/pkg/api/legacyscheme/scheme.go b/pkg/api/legacyscheme/scheme.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..64c63a3606
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/api/legacyscheme/scheme.go
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+/*
+Copyright 2014 The Kubernetes Authors.
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+*/
+
+package legacyscheme
+
+import (
+	"os"
+
+	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apimachinery/announced"
+	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apimachinery/registered"
+	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime"
+	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/serializer"
+)
+
+// GroupFactoryRegistry is the APIGroupFactoryRegistry (overlaps a bit with Registry, see comments in package for details)
+var GroupFactoryRegistry = make(announced.APIGroupFactoryRegistry)
+
+// Registry is an instance of an API registry.  This is an interim step to start removing the idea of a global
+// API registry.
+var Registry = registered.NewOrDie(os.Getenv("KUBE_API_VERSIONS"))
+
+// Scheme is the default instance of runtime.Scheme to which types in the Kubernetes API are already registered.
+// NOTE: If you are copying this file to start a new api group, STOP! Copy the
+// extensions group instead. This Scheme is special and should appear ONLY in
+// the api group, unless you really know what you're doing.
+// TODO(lavalamp): make the above error impossible.
+var Scheme = runtime.NewScheme()
+
+// Codecs provides access to encoding and decoding for the scheme
+var Codecs = serializer.NewCodecFactory(Scheme)
+
+// ParameterCodec handles versioning of objects that are converted to query parameters.
+var ParameterCodec = runtime.NewParameterCodec(Scheme)
diff --git a/pkg/api/register.go b/pkg/api/register.go
index 39562e5a56..8029a9571a 100644
--- a/pkg/api/register.go
+++ b/pkg/api/register.go
@@ -17,42 +17,17 @@ limitations under the License.
 package api
 
 import (
-	"os"
-
-	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apimachinery/announced"
-	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apimachinery/registered"
 	metav1 "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1"
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime"
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/schema"
-	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/serializer"
 )
 
-// GroupFactoryRegistry is the APIGroupFactoryRegistry (overlaps a bit with Registry, see comments in package for details)
-var GroupFactoryRegistry = make(announced.APIGroupFactoryRegistry)
-
-// Registry is an instance of an API registry.  This is an interim step to start removing the idea of a global
-// API registry.
-var Registry = registered.NewOrDie(os.Getenv("KUBE_API_VERSIONS"))
-
-// Scheme is the default instance of runtime.Scheme to which types in the Kubernetes API are already registered.
-// NOTE: If you are copying this file to start a new api group, STOP! Copy the
-// extensions group instead. This Scheme is special and should appear ONLY in
-// the api group, unless you really know what you're doing.
-// TODO(lavalamp): make the above error impossible.
-var Scheme = runtime.NewScheme()
-
-// Codecs provides access to encoding and decoding for the scheme
-var Codecs = serializer.NewCodecFactory(Scheme)
-
 // GroupName is the group name use in this package
 const GroupName = ""
 
 // SchemeGroupVersion is group version used to register these objects
 var SchemeGroupVersion = schema.GroupVersion{Group: GroupName, Version: runtime.APIVersionInternal}
 
-// ParameterCodec handles versioning of objects that are converted to query parameters.
-var ParameterCodec = runtime.NewParameterCodec(Scheme)
-
 // Kind takes an unqualified kind and returns a Group qualified GroupKind
 func Kind(kind string) schema.GroupKind {
 	return SchemeGroupVersion.WithKind(kind).GroupKind()