diff --git a/extensions/kubernetes-config/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/kubernetes/config/deployment/KubernetesConfigProcessor.java b/extensions/kubernetes-config/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/kubernetes/config/deployment/KubernetesConfigProcessor.java
index 9a14a1760e512..1aa85b8a4ca1b 100644
--- a/extensions/kubernetes-config/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/kubernetes/config/deployment/KubernetesConfigProcessor.java
+++ b/extensions/kubernetes-config/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/kubernetes/config/deployment/KubernetesConfigProcessor.java
@@ -2,13 +2,10 @@
 
 import java.util.List;
 
-import org.jboss.logmanager.Level;
-
 import io.quarkus.deployment.annotations.BuildProducer;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.annotations.BuildStep;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.annotations.ExecutionTime;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.annotations.Record;
-import io.quarkus.deployment.builditem.LogCategoryBuildItem;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.builditem.RunTimeConfigurationSourceValueBuildItem;
 import io.quarkus.kubernetes.client.runtime.KubernetesClientBuildConfig;
 import io.quarkus.kubernetes.config.runtime.KubernetesConfigBuildTimeConfig;
@@ -71,12 +68,4 @@ public void handleAccessToSecrets(KubernetesConfigSourceConfig config,
 
         recorder.warnAboutSecrets(config, buildTimeConfig);
     }
-
-    // done in order to ensure that http logs aren't shown by default which happens because of the interplay between
-    // not yet setup logging (as the bootstrap config runs before logging is set up) and the configuration
-    // of the okhttp3.logging.HttpLoggingInterceptor by io.fabric8.kubernetes.client.utils.HttpClientUtils
-    @BuildStep
-    public void produceLoggingCategories(BuildProducer<LogCategoryBuildItem> categories) {
-        categories.produce(new LogCategoryBuildItem("okhttp3.OkHttpClient", Level.WARN));
-    }
 }