diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/kfctl/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/kfctl/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index efb36b00c6c2..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/kfctl/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, buildGoModule, fetchFromGitHub, installShellFiles }:
-
-buildGoModule rec {
-  pname = "kfctl";
-  version = "1.2.0";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "kubeflow";
-    repo = pname;
-    rev = "v${version}";
-    sha256 = "sha256-FY7o4QULobLY1djfcc2l6awE/v2stN7cc2lffMkjoPc=";
-  };
-
-  vendorSha256 = null; #vendorSha256 = "";
-
-  subPackages = [ "cmd/kfctl" ];
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ installShellFiles ];
-
-  postInstall = ''
-  installShellCompletion --cmd eksctl \
-    --bash <($out/bin/kfctl completion bash) \
-    --zsh <($out/bin/kfctl completion zsh)
-  '';
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    description = "A CLI for deploying and managing Kubeflow";
-    homepage = "https://github.com/kubeflow/kfctl";
-    license = licenses.asl20;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ mvnetbiz ];
-    broken = true; # vendor isn't reproducible with go > 1.17: nix-build -A $name.goModules --check
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index 2fa19974f1ee..1a3191b08c5d 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -833,6 +833,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   kexpand = throw "kexpand awless has been dropped due to the lack of maintenance from upstream since 2017"; # Added 2022-06-01
   keybase-go = throw "'keybase-go' has been renamed to/replaced by 'keybase'"; # Converted to throw 2022-02-22
   keysmith = libsForQt5.kdeGear.keysmith; # Added 2021-07-14
+  kfctl = throw "kfctl is broken and has been archived by upstream" ; # Added 2023-08-21
   kgx = gnome-console; # Added 2022-02-19
   kibana7-oss = throw "kibana7-oss has been removed, as the distribution is no longer provided by upstream. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/114456"; # Added 2021-06-09
   kicad-with-packages3d = kicad; # Added 2019-11-25
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 274311f5b4d5..eb0deb3b59e5 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -9666,8 +9666,6 @@ with pkgs;
     jdk = jdk11;
   };
 
-  kfctl = callPackage ../applications/networking/cluster/kfctl { };
-
   kluctl = callPackage ../applications/networking/cluster/kluctl { };
 
   kibana7 = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/kibana/7.x.nix { };