diff --git a/pkg/skaffold/runner/deployer.go b/pkg/skaffold/runner/deployer.go
index cba190ec274..828a72aba2f 100644
--- a/pkg/skaffold/runner/deployer.go
+++ b/pkg/skaffold/runner/deployer.go
@@ -202,8 +202,6 @@ The default deployer will honor a select set of deploy configuration from an exi
   - deploy.Logs.Prefix
   - deploy.Kubectl.Flags
   - deploy.Kubectl.DefaultNamespace
-  - deploy.Kustomize.Flags
-  - deploy.Kustomize.DefaultNamespace
 
 For a multi-config project, we do not currently support resolving conflicts between differing sets of this deploy configuration.
 Therefore, in this function we do implicit validation of the provided configuration, and fail if any conflict cannot be resolved.
diff --git a/pkg/skaffold/schema/defaults/defaults.go b/pkg/skaffold/schema/defaults/defaults.go
index 86be8c73fe4..555fb8bdd75 100644
--- a/pkg/skaffold/schema/defaults/defaults.go
+++ b/pkg/skaffold/schema/defaults/defaults.go
@@ -135,7 +135,6 @@ func SetDefaultRenderer(c *latest.SkaffoldConfig) {
 	}
 	// Set default manifests to "k8s/*.yaml", same as v1.
 	c.Render.Generate.RawK8s = constants.DefaultKubectlManifests
-	c.Deploy.KubectlDeploy = &latest.KubectlDeploy{}
 }
 
 // SetDefaultDeployer adds a default kubectl deploy configuration.