diff --git a/spring-cloud-kubernetes-commons/pom.xml b/spring-cloud-kubernetes-commons/pom.xml
index 2d61a923..4d2391b9 100644
--- a/spring-cloud-kubernetes-commons/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-cloud-kubernetes-commons/pom.xml
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
 			<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-logging</artifactId>
+			<optional>true</optional>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.springframework.retry</groupId>