We want to use systemd as cgroup driver for docker and kubelet, let's see how to achieve that. Configure docker After you install and start docker, by default it will use cgroupfs as the cgroup driver, check by running: docker info | grep Cgroup Cgroup Driver: cgroupfs Edit /usr/lib/systemd/system/docker.service file: ExecStart=/usr/bin/dockerd --exec-opt native.cgroupdriver=systemd Then reload daemon and restart docker systemctl daemon-reload systemctl restart docker Verify the change docker info | grep Cgroup Cgroup Driver: systemd Configure kubelet Currently, the kubelet cannot