diff --git a/pkg/transformer/kubernetes/k8sutils.go b/pkg/transformer/kubernetes/k8sutils.go
index 499f1ee5..69309b40 100644
--- a/pkg/transformer/kubernetes/k8sutils.go
+++ b/pkg/transformer/kubernetes/k8sutils.go
@@ -280,6 +280,34 @@ func marshal(obj runtime.Object, jsonFormat bool, indent int) (data []byte, err
 	return
 }
 
+// remove empty map[string]interface{} strings from the object
+//
+// Note: this function uses recursion, use it only objects created by the unmarshalled json.
+// Passing cyclic structures to removeEmptyInterfaces will result in a stack overflow.
+func removeEmptyInterfaces(obj interface{}) interface{} {
+	switch v := obj.(type) {
+	case []interface{}:
+		for i, val := range v {
+			if valMap, ok := val.(map[string]interface{}); (ok && len(valMap) == 0) || val == nil {
+				v = append(v[:i], v[i+1:]...)
+			} else {
+				v[i] = removeEmptyInterfaces(val)
+			}
+		}
+	case map[string]interface{}:
+		for k, val := range v {
+			if valMap, ok := val.(map[string]interface{}); (ok && len(valMap) == 0) || val == nil {
+				delete(v, k)
+			} else {
+				v[k] = removeEmptyInterfaces(val)
+			}
+		}
+	default:
+		return v
+	}
+	return obj
+}
+
 // Convert JSON to YAML.
 func jsonToYaml(j []byte, spaces int) ([]byte, error) {
 	// Convert the JSON to an object.
@@ -293,7 +321,7 @@ func jsonToYaml(j []byte, spaces int) ([]byte, error) {
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
-
+	jsonObj = removeEmptyInterfaces(jsonObj)
 	var b bytes.Buffer
 	encoder := yaml.NewEncoder(&b)
 	encoder.SetIndent(spaces)
diff --git a/pkg/transformer/kubernetes/kubernetes_test.go b/pkg/transformer/kubernetes/kubernetes_test.go
index ef1a0053..70f05652 100644
--- a/pkg/transformer/kubernetes/kubernetes_test.go
+++ b/pkg/transformer/kubernetes/kubernetes_test.go
@@ -1145,3 +1145,25 @@ func TestNamespaceGenerationBlank(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	}
 }
+
+// Test empty interfaces removal
+func TestRemoveEmptyInterfaces(t *testing.T) {
+	type Obj = map[string]interface{}
+	var testCases = []struct {
+		input  interface{}
+		output interface{}
+	}{
+		{Obj{"useless": Obj{}}, Obj{}},
+		{Obj{"usefull": Obj{"usefull": "usefull"}}, Obj{"usefull": Obj{"usefull": "usefull"}}},
+		{Obj{"usefull": Obj{"usefull": "usefull", "uselessdeep": Obj{}, "uselessnil": nil}}, Obj{"usefull": Obj{"usefull": "usefull"}}},
+		{"test", "test"},
+	}
+	for _, tc := range testCases {
+		t.Run(fmt.Sprintf("Test removeEmptyInterfaces(%s)", tc.input), func(t *testing.T) {
+			result := removeEmptyInterfaces(tc.input)
+			if !reflect.DeepEqual(result, tc.output) {
+				t.Errorf("Expected %v, got %v", tc.output, result)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}