diff --git a/deploy/longhorn-images-dev.txt b/deploy/longhorn-images-dev.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 59369f5..0000000
--- a/deploy/longhorn-images-dev.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-longhornio/longhorn-engine:master
-longhornio/longhorn-instance-manager:v1_20200514
-longhornio/longhorn-manager:master
-longhornio/longhorn-manager-test:master
-longhornio/longhorn-test:upgrade-test.3-3.3-3.1-1
-longhornio/longhorn-ui:master
-longhornio/csi-attacher:v2.0.0
-longhornio/csi-node-driver-registrar:v1.2.0
-longhornio/csi-provisioner:v1.4.0
-longhornio/csi-resizer:v0.3.0
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/scripts/load-images.sh b/scripts/load-images.sh
index ea659f1..3ce1d0f 100755
--- a/scripts/load-images.sh
+++ b/scripts/load-images.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 list="longhorn-images.txt"
-images="longhorn-images.tar.gz"
 
 POSITIONAL=()
 while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; do
@@ -31,7 +30,7 @@ done
 usage () {
     echo "USAGE: $0 [--image-list longhorn-images.txt] [--images longhorn-images.tar.gz] --registry my.registry.com:5000"
     echo "  [-l|--images-list path] text file with list of images. 1 per line."
-    echo "  [-l|--images path] tar.gz generated by docker save."
+    echo "  [-i|--images path] tar.gz generated by docker save. If empty, the script will try to find images in local docker images"
     echo "  [-r|--registry registry:port] target private registry:port. By default, registry is Docker Hub"
     echo "  [-h|--help] Usage message"
 }
@@ -47,7 +46,9 @@ fi
 
 set -e -x
 
-docker load --input ${images}
+if [[ $images ]]; then
+    docker load --input ${images}
+fi
 
 for i in $(cat ${list}); do
     case $i in
diff --git a/scripts/save-images.sh b/scripts/save-images.sh
index 8094916..71ffe87 100755
--- a/scripts/save-images.sh
+++ b/scripts/save-images.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 list="longhorn-images.txt"
-images="longhorn-images.tar.gz"
 
 POSITIONAL=()
 while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; do
@@ -26,7 +25,7 @@ done
 usage () {
 	echo "USAGE: $0 [--image-list longhorn-images.txt] [--images longhorn-images.tar.gz]"
 	echo "  [-l|--images-list path] text file with list of images. 1 per line."
-	echo "  [-l|--images path] tar.gz generated by docker save."
+	echo "  [-i|--images path] tar.gz generated by docker save. If this flag is empty, the script does not export images to a tar.gz file"
 	echo "  [-h|--help] Usage message"
 }
 
@@ -41,4 +40,6 @@ for i in $(cat ${list}); do
 	docker pull ${i}
 done
 
-docker save $(cat ${list} | tr '\n' ' ') | gzip -c > ${images}
+if [[ $images ]]; then
+	docker save $(cat ${list} | tr '\n' ' ') | gzip -c > ${images}
+fi