diff --git a/recipes/natural_language_processing/rag/Makefile b/recipes/natural_language_processing/rag/Makefile
index 4717ed3fa..24350d286 100644
--- a/recipes/natural_language_processing/rag/Makefile
+++ b/recipes/natural_language_processing/rag/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 APP=rag
-HOSTDATADIR ?= ${HOME}/rag/data
 CHROMADBIMAGE ?= quay.io/ai-lab/chromadb:latest
 MODELIMAGE ?= quay.io/ai-lab/mistral-7b-instruct:latest
 APPIMAGE ?= quay.io/ai-lab/${APP}:latest
@@ -13,8 +12,7 @@ build:
 
 .PHONY: bootc
 bootc: quadlet
-	sed -i '' -e "s|$(HOSTDATADIR)|/usr/share/rag/data|g" bootc/build/${APP}.yaml
-	podman build --cap-add SYS_ADMIN --build-arg "HOSTDATADIR=${HOSTDATADIR}" --build-arg "SSHPUBKEY=$(SSHPUBKEY)" -f bootc/Containerfile -t ${BOOTCIMAGE} .
+	podman build --cap-add SYS_ADMIN --build-arg "SSHPUBKEY=$(SSHPUBKEY)" -f bootc/Containerfile -t ${BOOTCIMAGE} .
 
 .PHONY: quadlet
 quadlet:
@@ -30,7 +28,6 @@ quadlet:
 	    -e "s|APPIMAGE|${APPIMAGE}|g" \
 	    -e "s|MODELIMAGE|${MODELIMAGE}|g" \
 	    -e "s|CHROMADBIMAGE|${CHROMADBIMAGE}|g" \
-		-e "s|HOSTDATADIR|${HOSTDATADIR}|g" \
 	    quadlet/${APP}.yaml \
 	    > bootc/build/${APP}.yaml
 	cp quadlet/${APP}.kube bootc/build/${APP}.kube
diff --git a/recipes/natural_language_processing/rag/README.md b/recipes/natural_language_processing/rag/README.md
index 1c5f5dd5e..7e440cc9d 100644
--- a/recipes/natural_language_processing/rag/README.md
+++ b/recipes/natural_language_processing/rag/README.md
@@ -110,11 +110,10 @@ There also needs to be a volume mount into the `models/` directory so that the a
 The following Podman command can be used to run your AI Application:
 
 ```bash
-podman run --rm -it -p 8501:8501 
--e MODEL_SERVICE_ENDPOINT=http://10.88.0.1:8001/v1 
--e VECTORDB_HOST=10.88.0.1 
--v Local/path/to/locallm/models/:/rag/models 
--v Local/path/to/locallm/data:/rag/data
+podman run --rm -it -p 8501:8501 \
+-e MODEL_SERVICE_ENDPOINT=http://10.88.0.1:8001/v1 \
+-e VECTORDB_HOST=10.88.0.1 \
+-v Local/path/to/locallm/models/:/rag/models \
 rag   
 ```
 
diff --git a/recipes/natural_language_processing/rag/bootc/Containerfile b/recipes/natural_language_processing/rag/bootc/Containerfile
index 00a0b523e..fd57e3540 100644
--- a/recipes/natural_language_processing/rag/bootc/Containerfile
+++ b/recipes/natural_language_processing/rag/bootc/Containerfile
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
 FROM quay.io/centos-bootc/centos-bootc:stream9
 
 ARG SSHPUBKEY
-ARG HOSTDATADIR
 
 RUN mkdir /usr/etc-system && \
     echo 'AuthorizedKeysFile /usr/etc-system/%u.keys' >> /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/30-auth-system.conf && \
@@ -21,12 +20,6 @@ ARG APPIMAGE=quay.io/ai-lab/${RECIPE}:latest
 ARG SERVERIMAGE=quay.io/ai-lab/llamacpp-python:latest
 ARG CHROMADBImage=quay.io/ai-lab/chromadb
 
-# Create RAG data directory
-RUN mkdir -p ${HOSTDATADIR} && mkdir -p /usr/share/rag/data
-# populate with sample data for testing application
-COPY sample-data ${HOSTDATADIR}
-RUN cp ${HOSTDATADIR}/* /usr/share/rag/data/.
-
 # Add quadlet files to setup system to automatically run AI application on boot
 COPY bootc/build/${RECIPE}.kube bootc/build/${RECIPE}.yaml /usr/share/containers/systemd
 
diff --git a/recipes/natural_language_processing/rag/quadlet/rag.yaml b/recipes/natural_language_processing/rag/quadlet/rag.yaml
index 2f14d42fd..bec10a8fc 100644
--- a/recipes/natural_language_processing/rag/quadlet/rag.yaml
+++ b/recipes/natural_language_processing/rag/quadlet/rag.yaml
@@ -23,9 +23,6 @@ spec:
       hostPort: 8501
     securityContext:
       runAsNonRoot: true
-    volumeMounts:
-    - name: data
-      mountPath: /rag/data
   - env:
     - name: CHROMADB_ENDPOINT
       value: http://0.0.0.0:800O/v1
@@ -36,9 +33,6 @@ spec:
       hostPort: 8000
     securityContext:
       runAsNonRoot: true
-    volumeMounts:
-    - name: data
-      mountPath: /rag/data
   - env:
     - name: HOST
       value: 0.0.0.0
@@ -57,9 +51,5 @@ spec:
     - name: model-file
       mountPath: /model
   volumes:
-  - name: data
-    hostPath:
-      path: HOSTDATADIR
-      type: File
   - name: model-file
     emptyDir: {}