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Is Docker still relevant if Kubernetes no longer uses dockershim?

Yes — Docker-built images remain fully OCI-compliant and run unchanged on Kubernetes via containerd; what changed is only that Kubernetes's runtime layer no longer routes through the Docker daemon specifically, not that Docker images or the Docker development workflow became obsolete.

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