diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/1_28/chart-versions.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/1_28/chart-versions.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 7f65917312ed..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/1_28/chart-versions.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-{
-  traefik-crd = {
-    url = "https://k3s.io/k3s-charts/assets/traefik-crd/traefik-crd-27.0.201+up27.0.2.tgz";
-    sha256 = "0vwprcb60y15sc4lmi58gl1zr3yhsq43jlbsfm7gs20ci90frv16";
-  };
-  traefik = {
-    url = "https://k3s.io/k3s-charts/assets/traefik/traefik-27.0.201+up27.0.2.tgz";
-    sha256 = "12dp1r82qfzqfzs4sfxc54rnw8kv42a3w4gpk5v3qkhqm6fkrnn1";
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/1_28/images-versions.json b/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/1_28/images-versions.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 449fa538cbd3..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/1_28/images-versions.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "airgap-images-amd64": {
-    "url": "https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/releases/download/v1.28.15%2Bk3s1/k3s-airgap-images-amd64.tar.zst",
-    "sha256": "0p14llji8m1pfi289w29smx6sbad6qhgxk9drwlyrfdywrhd04ly"
-  },
-  "airgap-images-arm": {
-    "url": "https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/releases/download/v1.28.15%2Bk3s1/k3s-airgap-images-arm.tar.zst",
-    "sha256": "054apgl2al8822f399ir81jbid9mfs27d4by7xkkpdbqr3fywbr6"
-  },
-  "airgap-images-arm64": {
-    "url": "https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/releases/download/v1.28.15%2Bk3s1/k3s-airgap-images-arm64.tar.zst",
-    "sha256": "19hzamg68zc1k90a9m6p2jnpy2p7v437kvgqsw198bhy796f6asb"
-  },
-  "images-list": {
-    "url": "https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/releases/download/v1.28.15%2Bk3s1/k3s-images.txt",
-    "sha256": "05229bfg174pvy525dcy7rvmgv9i9v1nnz5ngq80n7zkxj9cp8m8"
-  }
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/1_28/versions.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/1_28/versions.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index e03aa9f0eaf6..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/1_28/versions.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-{
-  k3sVersion = "1.28.15+k3s1";
-  k3sCommit = "869dd4d62626f5ba4afe3a923d77b2047c565a43";
-  k3sRepoSha256 = "1nijdii01004v2cgpaw0xnzyrljd4iw00wca1lg6szhqmj28gcfv";
-  k3sVendorHash = "sha256-zWBMZrpRJzzc4yAIWAnWnmVE7qr7bscJjHrHdDD0Ilg=";
-  chartVersions = import ./chart-versions.nix;
-  imagesVersions = builtins.fromJSON (builtins.readFile ./images-versions.json);
-  k3sRootVersion = "0.14.0";
-  k3sRootSha256 = "15cs9faw3jishsb5nhgmb5ldjc47hkwf7hz2126fp8ahf80m0fcl";
-  k3sCNIVersion = "1.5.1-k3s1";
-  k3sCNISha256 = "1bkz78p77aiw64hdvmlgc5zir9x8zha8qprfaab48jxbcsj3dfi7";
-  containerdVersion = "1.7.22-k3s1.28";
-  containerdSha256 = "0jpq03n5q8aydw4y14w9fl4fqixpdcw42gwvmsp3z3qplbvwkfkl";
-  criCtlVersion = "1.26.0-rc.0-k3s1";
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/default.nix
index 59fd6b1be344..ac960f233907 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/default.nix
@@ -12,17 +12,6 @@ let
   extraArgs = builtins.removeAttrs args [ "callPackage" ];
 in
 {
-  # 1_28 can be built with the same builder as 1_30
-  k3s_1_28 = common (
-    (import ./1_28/versions.nix)
-    // {
-      updateScript = [
-        ./update-script.sh
-        "28"
-      ];
-    }
-  ) extraArgs;
-
   # 1_29 can be built with the same builder as 1_30
   k3s_1_29 = common (
     (import ./1_29/versions.nix)
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index 115ad0035cb8..65b6a4bcec0c 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -585,6 +585,7 @@ mapAliases {
 
   k3s_1_26 = throw "'k3s_1_26' has been removed from nixpkgs as it has reached end of life"; # Added 2024-05-20
   k3s_1_27 = throw "'k3s_1_27' has been removed from nixpkgs as it has reached end of life on 2024-06-28"; # Added 2024-06-01
+  k3s_1_28 = throw "'k3s_1_28' has been removed from nixpkgs as it has reached end of life"; # Added 2024-12-15
   # k3d was a 3d editing software k-3d - "k3d has been removed because it was broken and has seen no release since 2016" Added 2022-01-04
   # now kube3d/k3d will take it's place
   kube3d = k3d; # Added 2022-0705
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index e2ba978dc202..b49427424818 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -14417,7 +14417,6 @@ with pkgs;
   jwm-settings-manager = callPackage ../applications/window-managers/jwm/jwm-settings-manager.nix { };
 
   inherit (callPackage ../applications/networking/cluster/k3s { })
-    k3s_1_28
     k3s_1_29
     k3s_1_30
     k3s_1_31