diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/52420-docker_swarm_service-remove-update-defaults.yml b/changelogs/fragments/52420-docker_swarm_service-remove-update-defaults.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f3416a8518
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/52420-docker_swarm_service-remove-update-defaults.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - "docker_swarm_service - Don't set ``1`` as default for ``update_parallelism``."
+  - "docker_swarm_service - Don't set ``10`` as default for ``update_delay``."
diff --git a/docs/docsite/rst/porting_guides/porting_guide_2.8.rst b/docs/docsite/rst/porting_guides/porting_guide_2.8.rst
index 9a265b0693..4afe4d31b8 100644
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/porting_guides/porting_guide_2.8.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/porting_guides/porting_guide_2.8.rst
@@ -185,7 +185,10 @@ Noteworthy module changes
 
 * The ``docker_service`` module was renamed to :ref:`docker_compose <docker_compose_module>`.
 
-* The ``docker_swarm_service`` module no longer sets a default for the ``user`` option. Before, the default was ``root``.
+* The ``docker_swarm_service`` module no longer sets a defaults for the following options:
+    * ``user``. Before, the default was ``root``.
+    * ``update_delay``. Before, the default was ``10``.
+    * ``update_parallelism``. Before, the default was ``1``.
 
 * ``vmware_vm_facts`` used to return dict of dict with virtual machine's facts. Ansible 2.8 and onwards will return list of dict with virtual machine's facts.
   Please see module ``vmware_vm_facts`` documentation for example.
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/cloud/docker/docker_swarm_service.py b/lib/ansible/modules/cloud/docker/docker_swarm_service.py
index c8d3368212..3b2465d4c6 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/cloud/docker/docker_swarm_service.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/cloud/docker/docker_swarm_service.py
@@ -403,16 +403,16 @@ options:
       - Corresponds to the C(--restart-window) option of C(docker service create).
   update_delay:
     type: int
-    default: 10
     description:
       - Rolling update delay in nanoseconds.
       - Corresponds to the C(--update-delay) option of C(docker service create).
+      - Before Ansible 2.8, the default value for this option was C(10).
   update_parallelism:
     type: int
-    default: 1
     description:
       - Rolling update parallelism.
       - Corresponds to the C(--update-parallelism) option of C(docker service create).
+      - Before Ansible 2.8, the default value for this option was C(1).
   update_failure_action:
     type: str
     description:
@@ -1711,8 +1711,8 @@ def main():
         restart_policy_delay=dict(type='int'),
         restart_policy_attempts=dict(type='int'),
         restart_policy_window=dict(type='int'),
-        update_delay=dict(default=10, type='int'),
-        update_parallelism=dict(default=1, type='int'),
+        update_delay=dict(type='int'),
+        update_parallelism=dict(type='int'),
         update_failure_action=dict(choices=['continue', 'pause']),
         update_monitor=dict(type='int'),
         update_max_failure_ratio=dict(type='float'),
diff --git a/test/integration/targets/docker_swarm_service/vars/main.yml b/test/integration/targets/docker_swarm_service/vars/main.yml
index 8c92675b9e..a96a76e43f 100644
--- a/test/integration/targets/docker_swarm_service/vars/main.yml
+++ b/test/integration/targets/docker_swarm_service/vars/main.yml
@@ -38,10 +38,10 @@ service_expected_output:
   restart_policy_delay: null
   restart_policy_window: null
   tty: null
-  update_delay: 10
+  update_delay: null
   update_failure_action: null
   update_max_failure_ratio: null
   update_monitor: null
   update_order: null
-  update_parallelism: 1
+  update_parallelism: null
   working_dir: null