diff --git a/docker/profiles/docker-compose.gms.yml b/docker/profiles/docker-compose.gms.yml
index d010d19dd9..6e3e578050 100644
--- a/docker/profiles/docker-compose.gms.yml
+++ b/docker/profiles/docker-compose.gms.yml
@@ -101,7 +101,6 @@ x-datahub-gms-service: &datahub-gms-service
   environment: &datahub-gms-env
     <<: [*primary-datastore-mysql-env, *graph-datastore-search-env, *search-datastore-env, *datahub-quickstart-telemetry-env, *kafka-env]
     ELASTICSEARCH_QUERY_CUSTOM_CONFIG_FILE: ${ELASTICSEARCH_QUERY_CUSTOM_CONFIG_FILE:-search_config.yaml}
-    METADATA_SERVICE_AUTH_ENABLED: ${METADATA_SERVICE_AUTH_ENABLED:-true}
   healthcheck:
     test: curl -sS --fail http://datahub-gms:${DATAHUB_GMS_PORT:-8080}/health
     start_period: 90s