diff --git a/kustomize.mk b/kustomize.mk
index 16a7abb..461d1c0 100644
--- a/kustomize.mk
+++ b/kustomize.mk
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ MANDATORY-kustomize = K8S_CONTEXT KUSTOMIZE_FOLDER
 start-kustomize:
 	@- echo "\n### starting deployment with kustomize"
 	@- echo "\n### setting kubernetes context to $(K8S_CONTEXT)"
-	@- kubectl config use-context $(K8S_CONTEXT)
+	@ kubectl config use-context $(K8S_CONTEXT)
 
 	@- echo "\n### create namespace $(K8S_NAMESPACE)"
 	@- kubectl create namespace "$(K8S_NAMESPACE)" --dry-run=client -o yaml | kubectl apply -f - 
@@ -18,12 +18,12 @@ start-kustomize:
 
 ifdef KUSTOMIZE_EDIT_NAMESPACE
 	@- echo "\n### setting namespace to $(K8S_NAMESPACE)"
-	@- cd $(KUSTOMIZE_FOLDER) && kustomize edit set namespace $(K8S_NAMESPACE)
+	@ cd $(KUSTOMIZE_FOLDER) && kustomize edit set namespace $(K8S_NAMESPACE)
 endif
 
 # actual deployment is happening here
 	@- echo "\n### applying kustomizations"
-	@- cd $(KUSTOMIZE_FOLDER) && kubectl apply -k .
+	@ cd $(KUSTOMIZE_FOLDER) && kubectl apply -k .
 
 pull-kustomize:
 # nop