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Kubernetes 1.35 is the last release supporting containerd 1.x; upgrade nodes to containerd 2.0+ before 1.36

kubernetes@1.35kubernetes@1.36containerd@1.7containerd@2#kubernetes#containerd#upgrade#kubelet
Fix

Before moving past v1.35, upgrade every node's runtime to containerd 2.0 or later. Find affected nodes with the kubelet metric kubelet_cri_losing_support, or:

kubectl get nodes -o custom-columns=NAME:.metadata.name,RUNTIME:.status.nodeInfo.containerRuntimeVersion

containerd 2.0 adds daemon config version = 3 and auto-migrates older configs on startup, but the CRI plugin section was renamed, so hand-written systemd cgroup settings must move:

# containerd 1.x
[plugins."io.containerd.grpc.v1.cri".containerd.runtimes.runc.options]
  SystemdCgroup = true
# containerd 2.x
[plugins.'io.containerd.cri.v1.runtime'.containerd.runtimes.runc.options]
  SystemdCgroup = true

Also make sure cri is not in disabled_plugins (some distro packages disable it).

Symptom

Cluster upgrade plans keep containerd 1.7 on nodes (common in older AMIs and distro packages). Newer kubelets warn, then lose cgroup-driver auto-detection with old runtimes.

Cause

SIG Node designated Kubernetes v1.35 (2025-12-17) as the final release that supports the containerd 1.x series. The kubelet's automatic cgroup driver detection needs the RuntimeConfig CRI RPC, which containerd 1.x lacks (containerd 2.0+ and CRI-O 1.28+ have it). The runtime docs say that in Kubernetes 1.38 the kubelet drops its fallback and older containerd versions will fail with newer kubelets.

Verify

The RUNTIME column shows containerd://2.x on every node and kubelet_cri_losing_support is absent.

Sources

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