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Initial Configuration

The Kubernetes documentation states:

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When using Docker, kubeadm will automatically detect the cgroup driver for the kubelet and set it in the /var/lib/kubelet/config.yaml file during runtime.

If you are using a different CRI, you must pass your cgroupDriver value to kubeadm init, like so:

apiVersion: kubelet.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: KubeletConfiguration
cgroupDriver: <value>

Please mind, that you only have to do that if the cgroup driver of your CRI is not cgroupfs, because that is the default value in the kubelet already.

Note: Since --cgroup-driver flag has been deprecated by kubelet, if you have that in /var/lib/kubelet/kubeadm-flags.env or /etc/default/kubelet(/etc/sysconfig/kubelet for RPMs), please remove it and use the KubeletConfiguration instead (stored in /var/lib/kubelet/config.yaml by default).

Restarting the kubelet is required:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl restart kubelet

The automatic detection of cgroup driver for other container runtimes like CRI-O and containerd is work in progress.

  • https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/production-environment/tools/kubeadm/install-kubeadm/#configure-cgroup-driver-used-by-kubelet-on-control-plane-node

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Admitidly, I could not figure out how to pass that cgroupDriver value to kubeadm. Using the Arch Wiki, I did find that you can create / edit /etc/kubernetes/kubelet.env and add the line KUBELET_EXTRA_ARGS="--cgroup-driver='systemd'". Then continue with the kubeadm init.

Once the init is done, the line can be removed from the kubelet.env file, and the line cgroupDriver: systemd can be added to the /var/lib/kubelet/config.yaml file.

  • https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kubernetes

Note!

At the moment, you WILL need to add the line to the /var/lib/kubelet/config.yaml file of EACH node that you add to the cluster which is using a cgroup driver that is not cgroupfs. I know of the following:

  • ContainerD
  • CRI-O
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