diff --git a/client/stack/stack.go b/client/stack/stack.go
index fc582af47..8577f1140 100644
--- a/client/stack/stack.go
+++ b/client/stack/stack.go
@@ -93,32 +93,6 @@ func GetAllDeployedServices(contextName string) StackStatus {
 	return StackStatus{services, nil}
 }
 
-func checkDaemonIsSwarmManager(contextName string) error {
-	cl, err := abraClient.NewClientWithContext(contextName)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	info, err := cl.Info(context.Background())
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	if !info.Swarm.ControlAvailable {
-		return errors.New("this server is not a swarm manager. Did you run \"abra server init\"?")
-	}
-	return nil
-}
-
-func checkDaemonIsSwarmManagerViaClient(ctx context.Context, cl *dockerclient.Client) error {
-	info, err := cl.Info(ctx)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	if !info.Swarm.ControlAvailable {
-		return errors.New("this node is not a swarm manager. Use \"docker swarm init\" or \"docker swarm join\" to connect this node to swarm and try again")
-	}
-	return nil
-}
-
 // validateStackName checks if the provided string is a valid stack name (namespace).
 // It currently only does a rudimentary check if the string is empty, or consists
 // of only whitespace and quoting characters.
@@ -185,10 +159,6 @@ func validateResolveImageFlag(opts *Deploy) error {
 }
 
 func deployCompose(ctx context.Context, cl *dockerclient.Client, opts Deploy, config *composetypes.Config) error {
-	if err := checkDaemonIsSwarmManagerViaClient(ctx, cl); err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-
 	namespace := convert.NewNamespace(opts.Namespace)
 
 	if opts.Prune {