diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index bc285c7a73..e6d1452ea2 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ jobs:
       docker_layer_caching: true
     environment:
       - PARALLELISM: 4 # Input to influxdb/build.py
-    parallelism: 5 # How many CircleCI test containers
+    parallelism: 4 # How many CircleCI test containers
     steps:
       - checkout
       - run:
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index d56f20c050..551e694ccf 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ second to sign our CLA, which can be found
 
 Installing Go
 -------------
-InfluxDB requires Go 1.12.
+InfluxDB requires Go 1.13
 
 At InfluxDB we find gvm, a Go version manager, useful for installing Go. For instructions
 on how to install it see [the gvm page on github](https://github.com/moovweb/gvm).
@@ -77,14 +77,8 @@ on how to install it see [the gvm page on github](https://github.com/moovweb/gvm
 After installing gvm you can install and set the default go version by
 running the following:
 
-    gvm install go1.12
-    gvm use go1.12 --default
-
-Installing Dep
--------------
-InfluxDB uses [dep](https://github.com/golang/dep) to manage dependencies.  Install it by running the following:
-
-    go get github.com/golang/dep/cmd/dep
+    gvm install go1.13
+    gvm use go1.13 --default
 
 Revision Control Systems
 -------------
@@ -122,13 +116,7 @@ Retaining the directory structure `$GOPATH/src/github.com/influxdata` is necessa
 Build and Test
 -----
 
-Make sure you have Go installed and the project structure as shown above. To then get the dependencies for the project, execute the following commands:
-
-```bash
-cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/influxdata/influxdb
-dep ensure
-```
-
+Make sure you have Go installed and the project structure as shown above.
 To then build and install the binaries, run the following command.
 ```bash
 go clean ./...
diff --git a/Dockerfile_build_ubuntu64_go1.12 b/Dockerfile_build_ubuntu64_go1.12
deleted file mode 100644
index 21a3ad43fb..0000000000
--- a/Dockerfile_build_ubuntu64_go1.12
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,41 +0,0 @@
-FROM ubuntu:xenial
-
-RUN apt-get update && DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y \
-    python-software-properties \
-    software-properties-common \
-    wget \
-    git \
-    mercurial \
-    make \
-    ruby \
-    ruby-dev \
-    autoconf \
-    libtool \
-    build-essential \
-    rpm \
-    zip \
-    python \
-    python-boto \
-    asciidoc \
-    xmlto \
-    docbook-xsl
-
-RUN gem install fpm
-
-# setup environment
-ENV GO_VERSION  1.12
-ENV GOARCH      amd64
-ENV GOROOT      /usr/local/go
-ENV GOPATH      /root/go
-ENV PATH        $GOPATH/bin:$GOROOT/bin:$PATH
-ENV PROJECT_DIR /root/influxdb
-
-# install go
-RUN wget --no-verbose https://storage.googleapis.com/golang/go${GO_VERSION}.linux-${GOARCH}.tar.gz -O- | tar -C /usr/local/ -zxf-
-
-RUN mkdir -p $PROJECT_DIR
-
-WORKDIR $PROJECT_DIR
-VOLUME  $PROJECT_DIR
-
-ENTRYPOINT [ "/root/influxdb/build.py" ]
diff --git a/Dockerfile_jenkins_ubuntu32 b/Dockerfile_jenkins_ubuntu32
index b65bfda80a..e2f2683944 100644
--- a/Dockerfile_jenkins_ubuntu32
+++ b/Dockerfile_jenkins_ubuntu32
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ RUN DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get update && \
 # Install go
 ENV GOCACHE=/tmp
 ENV GOPATH /go
-ENV GO_VERSION 1.12
+ENV GO_VERSION 1.13
 ENV GO_ARCH 386
 RUN wget --no-verbose -q https://storage.googleapis.com/golang/go${GO_VERSION}.linux-${GO_ARCH}.tar.gz && \
    tar -C /usr/local/ -xf /go${GO_VERSION}.linux-${GO_ARCH}.tar.gz && \
diff --git a/test.sh b/test.sh
index 9207aaf7bc..83ac5c70d6 100755
--- a/test.sh
+++ b/test.sh
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
 #      1: race enabled 64bit tests
 #      2: normal 32bit tests
 #      3: tsi build
-#      4: go 1.12
 #      count: print the number of test environments
 #      *: to run all tests in parallel containers
 #
@@ -32,7 +31,7 @@ TIMEOUT=${TIMEOUT-1500s}
 DOCKER_RM=${DOCKER_RM-true}
 
 # Update this value if you add a new test environment.
-ENV_COUNT=5
+ENV_COUNT=4
 
 # Default return code 0
 rc=0
@@ -123,11 +122,6 @@ case $ENVIRONMENT_INDEX in
         run_test_docker Dockerfile_build_ubuntu64 test_64bit --test --junit-report
         rc=$?
         ;;
-    4)
-        # go1.12
-        run_test_docker Dockerfile_build_ubuntu64_go1.12 test_64bit --test --junit-report
-        rc=$?
-        ;;
     "count")
         echo $ENV_COUNT
         ;;