diff --git a/cmd/pinniped-proxy/Cargo.lock b/cmd/pinniped-proxy/Cargo.lock
index 34d93cc7042..28212ffe56d 100644
--- a/cmd/pinniped-proxy/Cargo.lock
+++ b/cmd/pinniped-proxy/Cargo.lock
@@ -2,12 +2,6 @@
 # It is not intended for manual editing.
 version = 3
 
-[[package]]
-name = "adler"
-version = "1.0.2"
-source = "registry+/~https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "f26201604c87b1e01bd3d98f8d5d9a8fcbb815e8cedb41ffccbeb4bf593a35fe"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "ahash"
 version = "0.8.0"
@@ -44,19 +38,6 @@ version = "1.0.66"
 source = "registry+/~https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "216261ddc8289130e551ddcd5ce8a064710c0d064a4d2895c67151c92b5443f6"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "async-compression"
-version = "0.3.15"
-source = "registry+/~https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "942c7cd7ae39e91bde4820d74132e9862e62c2f386c3aa90ccf55949f5bad63a"
-dependencies = [
- "flate2",
- "futures-core",
- "memchr",
- "pin-project-lite",
- "tokio",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "async-stream"
 version = "0.3.3"
@@ -257,15 +238,6 @@ version = "0.8.3"
 source = "registry+/~https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "5827cebf4670468b8772dd191856768aedcb1b0278a04f989f7766351917b9dc"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "crc32fast"
-version = "1.3.2"
-source = "registry+/~https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "b540bd8bc810d3885c6ea91e2018302f68baba2129ab3e88f32389ee9370880d"
-dependencies = [
- "cfg-if",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "crossbeam-channel"
 version = "0.5.6"
@@ -488,16 +460,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-sys 0.42.0",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "flate2"
-version = "1.0.24"
-source = "registry+/~https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "f82b0f4c27ad9f8bfd1f3208d882da2b09c301bc1c828fd3a00d0216d2fbbff6"
-dependencies = [
- "crc32fast",
- "miniz_oxide",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "fnv"
 version = "1.0.7"
@@ -1098,15 +1060,6 @@ version = "0.3.16"
 source = "registry+/~https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "2a60c7ce501c71e03a9c9c0d35b861413ae925bd979cc7a4e30d060069aaac8d"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "miniz_oxide"
-version = "0.5.4"
-source = "registry+/~https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "96590ba8f175222643a85693f33d26e9c8a015f599c216509b1a6894af675d34"
-dependencies = [
- "adler",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "mio"
 version = "0.8.5"
@@ -2022,7 +1975,6 @@ version = "0.3.4"
 source = "registry+/~https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "3c530c8675c1dbf98facee631536fa116b5fb6382d7dd6dc1b118d970eafe3ba"
 dependencies = [
- "async-compression",
  "base64",
  "bitflags",
  "bytes",
@@ -2032,8 +1984,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "http-body",
  "http-range-header",
  "pin-project-lite",
- "tokio",
- "tokio-util",
  "tower-layer",
  "tower-service",
  "tracing",
diff --git a/cmd/pinniped-proxy/Cargo.toml b/cmd/pinniped-proxy/Cargo.toml
index 05af6ec1b61..df804baaaac 100644
--- a/cmd/pinniped-proxy/Cargo.toml
+++ b/cmd/pinniped-proxy/Cargo.toml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ chrono = "0.4"
 env_logger = "0.9"
 hyper = { version = "0.14", features = ["server"] }
 hyper-tls = "0.5"
-kube = { version = "0.75.0", features = ["default", "gzip"] }
+kube = { version = "0.75.0" }
 kube-derive = { version = "0.75.0"}
 kube-runtime = "0.75.0"
 k8s-openapi = { version = "0.16.0", default-features = false}