diff --git a/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json b/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
index f9b45c7..4016d3a 100644
--- a/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
+++ b/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
@@ -41,5 +41,5 @@
 	// make the workspace folder the same inside and outside of the container
 	"workspaceMount": "source=${localWorkspaceFolder},target=${localWorkspaceFolder},type=bind",
 	"workspaceFolder": "${localWorkspaceFolder}",
-	"postCreateCommand": "pip install -e .[interactive,processing,service]"
+	"postCreateCommand": "pip install -e .[interactive,processing]"
 }
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diff --git a/.github/workflows/containers.yml b/.github/workflows/containers.yml
index bdccc5b..028a2d1 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/containers.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/containers.yml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       fail-fast: true
       matrix:
-        target: ["interactive", "processing", "service"]
+        target: ["interactive", "processing"]
 
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index cb50ede..f970fdc 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -25,18 +25,3 @@ RUN pip install --upgrade .[processing]
 VOLUME /inputs /outputs
 
 ENTRYPOINT ["papermill", "notebook.ipynb", "/outputs/notebook.ipynb", "--parameters", "OUTPUT_PREFIX", "/outputs",  "--parameters", "INPUT_PREFIX", "/inputs"]
-
-FROM python:${PYTHON_VERSION}-slim as service
-
-ENV WORKDIR=/environment
-WORKDIR ${WORKDIR}
-
-COPY . ${WORKDIR}
-
-RUN pip install --upgrade .[service]
-
-ENV NOTEBOOK_PATH="notebook.ipynb"
-
-EXPOSE 8000
-
-ENTRYPOINT ["papermill_service"]
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a83c60b..28a355c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
 # Bookshelf Notebooks
 
-This template can be used to develop container images with data processing notebooks which will be automatically deployed in three varieties:
+This template can be used to develop container images with data processing notebooks which will be automatically deployed in two varieties:
 
 1. An interactive - jupyterlab - environment, for running both locally and on the hosted JupyterLab instance
 2. A headless processing image, for running both locally and as a cluster job
-3. A service, which can be hosted on the k8s cluster, and accessed via a REST API
 
 ## Setting up your bookshelf
 
@@ -47,9 +46,3 @@ or
 module load bookshelf/bookshelf-template/latest
 bookshelf-template-processing
 ```
-
-### Service (local)
-
-```
-podman run --publish 8000:8000 ghcr.io/diamondlightsource/bookshelf-template/service:latest
-```
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 2f91432..7193713 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -10,4 +10,3 @@ dynamic = ["version"]
 [project.optional-dependencies]
 interactive = ["jupyterlab"]
 processing = ["ipykernel", "black", "papermill"]
-service = ["ipykernel", "black", "papermill_service"]