diff --git a/docs/src/main/asciidoc/deploying-to-kubernetes.adoc b/docs/src/main/asciidoc/deploying-to-kubernetes.adoc
index 83ab4d287c9bf..b57e90a595ca3 100644
--- a/docs/src/main/asciidoc/deploying-to-kubernetes.adoc
+++ b/docs/src/main/asciidoc/deploying-to-kubernetes.adoc
@@ -1201,8 +1201,7 @@ Currently, the following Quarkus extensions support this feature:
 
 This list of extensions will grow as more services with supported bindings become available on Kubernetes.
 
-To enable Service Binding support, in addition to one of the currently supported extensions, the `quarkus-kubernetes-service-binding` extension needs to be added to the application dependencies as well as
-having the `quarkus.kubernetes-service-binding.enabled` configuration property set to `true`.
+To enable Service Binding support, in addition to one of the currently supported extensions, the `quarkus-kubernetes-service-binding` extension needs to be added to the application dependencies.
 
 === Example using PostgreSQL
 
@@ -1230,7 +1229,6 @@ The configuration of the application could be as simple as:
 
 [source,properties]
 ----
-quarkus.kubernetes-service-binding.enabled=true
 quarkus.hibernate-orm.database.generation=validate
 ----
 
diff --git a/extensions/kubernetes-service-binding/runtime/src/main/java/io/quarkus/kubernetes/service/binding/runtime/KubernetesServiceBindingConfig.java b/extensions/kubernetes-service-binding/runtime/src/main/java/io/quarkus/kubernetes/service/binding/runtime/KubernetesServiceBindingConfig.java
index a77e90540ebc7..a024098c77230 100644
--- a/extensions/kubernetes-service-binding/runtime/src/main/java/io/quarkus/kubernetes/service/binding/runtime/KubernetesServiceBindingConfig.java
+++ b/extensions/kubernetes-service-binding/runtime/src/main/java/io/quarkus/kubernetes/service/binding/runtime/KubernetesServiceBindingConfig.java
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ public class KubernetesServiceBindingConfig {
     /**
      * If enabled, Service Bindings will be looked in the file system
      */
-    @ConfigItem
+    @ConfigItem(defaultValue = "true")
     public boolean enabled;
 
     /**
diff --git a/integration-tests/kubernetes-service-binding-jdbc/pom.xml b/integration-tests/kubernetes-service-binding-jdbc/pom.xml
index 164ead097e24e..67becae685e91 100644
--- a/integration-tests/kubernetes-service-binding-jdbc/pom.xml
+++ b/integration-tests/kubernetes-service-binding-jdbc/pom.xml
@@ -166,7 +166,6 @@
                                 <quarkus.kubernetes-service-binding.root>
                                     ${project.basedir}/src/test/resources/k8s-sb
                                 </quarkus.kubernetes-service-binding.root>
-                                <quarkus.kubernetes-service-binding.enabled>true</quarkus.kubernetes-service-binding.enabled>
                             </systemPropertyVariables>
                         </configuration>
                     </plugin>