diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6315a736..b394724c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -21,7 +21,11 @@ The expected repository layout is:
    Dockerfile in the root when only building a single command
  - `Makefile` - includes `release-tools/build.make` and sets
    configuration variables
- - `.travis.yml` - a symlink to `release-tools/.travis.yml`
+ - `.prow.sh` script which imports `release-tools/prow.sh`
+   and may contain further customization
+ - `.cloudbuild.sh` and `cloudbuild.yaml` as symlinks to
+   the corresponding files in `release-tools` or (if necessary)
+   as custom files
 
 To create a release, tag a certain revision with a name that
 starts with `v`, for example `v1.0.0`, then `make push`
diff --git a/cloudbuild.yaml b/cloudbuild.yaml
index 7f0a4341..1e02ba6c 100644
--- a/cloudbuild.yaml
+++ b/cloudbuild.yaml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ options:
   substitution_option: ALLOW_LOOSE
 steps:
   # The image must contain bash and curl. Ideally it should also contain
-  # the desired version of Go (currently defined in release-tools/travis.yml),
+  # the desired version of Go (currently defined in release-tools/prow.sh),
   # but that just speeds up the build and is not required.
   - name: 'gcr.io/k8s-testimages/gcb-docker-gcloud:v20200421-a2bf5f8'
     entrypoint: ./.cloudbuild.sh
diff --git a/prow.sh b/prow.sh
index ec695ec6..2192b1d3 100755
--- a/prow.sh
+++ b/prow.sh
@@ -85,14 +85,7 @@ configvar CSI_PROW_BUILD_PLATFORMS "linux amd64; windows amd64 .exe; linux ppc64
 # which is disabled with GOFLAGS=-mod=vendor).
 configvar GOFLAGS_VENDOR "$( [ -d vendor ] && echo '-mod=vendor' )" "Go flags for using the vendor directory"
 
-# Go versions can be specified separately for different tasks
-# If the pre-installed Go is missing or a different
-# version, the required version here will get installed
-# from https://golang.org/dl/.
-go_from_travis_yml () {
-    grep "^ *- go:" "${RELEASE_TOOLS_ROOT}/travis.yml" | sed -e 's/.*go: *//'
-}
-configvar CSI_PROW_GO_VERSION_BUILD "$(go_from_travis_yml)" "Go version for building the component" # depends on component's source code
+configvar CSI_PROW_GO_VERSION_BUILD "1.16" "Go version for building the component" # depends on component's source code
 configvar CSI_PROW_GO_VERSION_E2E "" "override Go version for building the Kubernetes E2E test suite" # normally doesn't need to be set, see install_e2e
 configvar CSI_PROW_GO_VERSION_SANITY "${CSI_PROW_GO_VERSION_BUILD}" "Go version for building the csi-sanity test suite" # depends on CSI_PROW_SANITY settings below
 configvar CSI_PROW_GO_VERSION_KIND "${CSI_PROW_GO_VERSION_BUILD}" "Go version for building 'kind'" # depends on CSI_PROW_KIND_VERSION below
diff --git a/travis.yml b/travis.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 1ab13aef..00000000
--- a/travis.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-language: go
-sudo: required
-services:
-  - docker
-git:
-  depth: false
-matrix:
-  include:
-  - go: 1.15
-before_script:
-- mkdir -p bin
-- wget https://github.com/golang/dep/releases/download/v0.5.1/dep-linux-amd64 -O bin/dep
-- chmod u+x bin/dep
-- export PATH=$PWD/bin:$PATH
-script:
-- make -k all test GOFLAGS_VENDOR=$( [ -d vendor ] && echo '-mod=vendor' )
-after_success:
-  - if [ "${TRAVIS_PULL_REQUEST}" == "false" ]; then
-      docker login -u "${DOCKER_USERNAME}" -p "${DOCKER_PASSWORD}" quay.io;
-      make push GOFLAGS_VENDOR=$( [ -d vendor ] && echo '-mod=vendor' );
-    fi
diff --git a/verify-go-version.sh b/verify-go-version.sh
index f242e769..d130126a 100755
--- a/verify-go-version.sh
+++ b/verify-go-version.sh
@@ -29,8 +29,9 @@ die () {
 version=$("$GO" version) || die "determining version of $GO failed"
 # shellcheck disable=SC2001
 majorminor=$(echo "$version" | sed -e 's/.*go\([0-9]*\)\.\([0-9]*\).*/\1.\2/')
-# shellcheck disable=SC2001
-expected=$(grep "^ *- go:" "release-tools/travis.yml" | sed -e 's/.*go: *\([0-9]*\)\.\([0-9]*\).*/\1.\2/')
+# SC1091: Not following: release-tools/prow.sh was not specified as input (see shellcheck -x).
+# shellcheck disable=SC1091
+expected=$(. release-tools/prow.sh && echo "$$CSI_PROW_GO_VERSION_BUILD")
 
 if [ "$majorminor" != "$expected" ]; then
     cat >&2 <<EOF