diff --git a/content/en/docs/concepts/containers/container-environment.md b/content/en/docs/concepts/containers/container-environment.md
index 3c4c153927..f773178b54 100644
--- a/content/en/docs/concepts/containers/container-environment.md
+++ b/content/en/docs/concepts/containers/container-environment.md
@@ -35,13 +35,12 @@ The Pod name and namespace are available as environment variables through the
 [downward API](/docs/tasks/inject-data-application/downward-api-volume-expose-pod-information/).
 
 User defined environment variables from the Pod definition are also available to the Container,
-as are any environment variables specified statically in the Docker image.
+as are any environment variables specified statically in the container image.
 
 ### Cluster information
 
 A list of all services that were running when a Container was created is available to that Container as environment variables.
 This list is limited to services within the same namespace as the new Container's Pod and Kubernetes control plane services.
-Those environment variables match the syntax of Docker links.
 
 For a service named *foo* that maps to a Container named *bar*,
 the following variables are defined: