diff --git a/spring-cloud-kubernetes-commons/pom.xml b/spring-cloud-kubernetes-commons/pom.xml
index 92208439..b5e0448f 100644
--- a/spring-cloud-kubernetes-commons/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-cloud-kubernetes-commons/pom.xml
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
 			<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-logging</artifactId>
+			<optional>true</optional>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
diff --git a/spring-cloud-kubernetes-fabric8-autoconfig/pom.xml b/spring-cloud-kubernetes-fabric8-autoconfig/pom.xml
index 926bcf94..4030dec7 100644
--- a/spring-cloud-kubernetes-fabric8-autoconfig/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-cloud-kubernetes-fabric8-autoconfig/pom.xml
@@ -66,6 +66,13 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
 			<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-json</artifactId>
+			<exclusions>
+				<!-- exclusion is safe since we already declare this one, as optional=true -->
+				<exclusion>
+					<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
+					<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-logging</artifactId>
+				</exclusion>
+			</exclusions>
 		</dependency>
 
 		<dependency>