diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a3fc478..4d5f9e6 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -149,10 +149,11 @@ Configure JupyterHub and build it into a Docker image.
 
 	The admin user will have the ability to add more users in the JupyterHub admin console.
 
-1. Build the JupyterHub Docker image.  For convenience, this repo provides a `hub.sh` script that wraps [docker-compose](https://docs.docker.com/compose/reference/), so you can run it with the docker-compose [command line arguments](https://docs.docker.com/compose/reference/overview/).  To build the JupyterHub image on the active Docker machine host, run:
+1. Use [docker-compose](https://docs.docker.com/compose/reference/) to build the
+JupyterHub Docker image on the active Docker machine host:
 
     ```
-    ./hub.sh build
+    docker-compose build
     ```
 
 ## Create a JupyterHub Data Volume
@@ -190,7 +191,7 @@ Run the JupyterHub container on the host.
 To run the JupyterHub container in detached mode:
 
 ```
-./hub.sh up -d
+docker-compose up -d
 ```
 
 Once the container is running, you should be able to access the JupyterHub console at
@@ -202,7 +203,7 @@ https://myhost.mydomain
 To bring down the JupyterHub container:
 
 ```
-./hub.sh down
+docker-compose down
 ```
 
 ## FAQ
@@ -245,8 +246,9 @@ image in the environment where you launch JupyterHub. For example, the
 following setting would be used to spawn single-user `pyspark` notebook servers:
 
 ```
-DOCKER_NOTEBOOK_IMAGE=jupyterhub/pyspark-notebook:2d878db5cbff \
-	./hub.sh up -d
+export DOCKER_NOTEBOOK_IMAGE=jupyterhub/pyspark-notebook:2d878db5cbff
+
+docker-compose up -d
 ```
 
 ### If I change the name of the Notebook server image to spawn, do I need to restart JupyterHub?
diff --git a/examples/custom-notebook-server/README.md b/examples/custom-notebook-server/README.md
index 90f85b9..b70edbb 100644
--- a/examples/custom-notebook-server/README.md
+++ b/examples/custom-notebook-server/README.md
@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ when you run the JupyterHub container.  For example, run the following
 export DOCKER_NOTEBOOK_IMAGE=my-custom-notebook
 
 # bring down the JupyterHub container, if running
-./hub.sh down
+docker-compose down
 
 # bring it back up
-./hub.sh up -d
+docker-compose up -d
 ```
diff --git a/examples/letsencrypt/README.md b/examples/letsencrypt/README.md
index be71a7e..6f45352 100644
--- a/examples/letsencrypt/README.md
+++ b/examples/letsencrypt/README.md
@@ -39,9 +39,10 @@ eval "$(docker-machine env jupyterhub)"
 
 ## Run JupyterHub container
 
-To run the JupyterHub container using the configuration in this directory, run the `hub.sh` script **from the root directory** of this repository and specify the `docker-compose.yml` file in this directory.   Set the `SECRETS_VOLUME` environment variable to the name of the Docker volume containing the TLS certificate and key files.
+To run the JupyterHub container using the Let's Encrypt certificate and key, set the `SECRETS_VOLUME` environment variable to the name of the Docker volume containing the certificate and key files, and run `docker-compose` **from the root directory** of this repository while specifying the `docker-compose.yml` configuration in this directory:
 
 ```
-SECRETS_VOLUME=jupyterhub-secrets \
-  ./hub.sh -f examples/letsencrypt/docker-compose.yml up -d
+export SECRETS_VOLUME=jupyterhub-secrets
+
+docker-compose -f examples/letsencrypt/docker-compose.yml up -d
 ```
diff --git a/hub.sh b/hub.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 6c80daf..0000000
--- a/hub.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-# Copyright (c) Jupyter Development Team.
-# Distributed under the terms of the Modified BSD License.
-
-# Wrapper script around docker-compose
-
-set -e
-
-for i in "$@" ; do
-  if [[ "$i" == "up" ]]; then
-    # Check for required environment variables on startup
-    if [ -z ${GITHUB_CLIENT_ID:+x} ]; then
-      echo "ERROR: Must set GITHUB_CLIENT_ID environment variable"; exit 1;
-    fi
-    if [ -z ${GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET:+x} ]; then
-      echo "ERROR: Must set GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET environment variable"; exit 1;
-    fi
-    if [ -z ${OAUTH_CALLBACK_URL:+x} ]; then
-      echo "ERROR: Must set OAUTH_CALLBACK_URL environment variable"; exit 1;
-    fi
-  fi
-done
-
-exec docker-compose "$@"