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A team is told 'we can't use our existing Docker images anymore because Kubernetes removed Docker support'

Evaluate this claim and explain the actual situation to the team. Expected reasoning: this is a misunderstanding of the dockershim removal. The team's existing OCI-compliant images, built with docker build, will run unmodified on any current Kubernetes cluster, since the cluster's container runtime (containerd) directly understands the OCI image format — no rebuild or reformatting is needed. What would actually require attention is any tooling that assumed direct access to a Docker daemon on the node itself (e.g., some older CI/monitoring integrations), not the images themselves.

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