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Why was dockershim removed from Kubernetes?
Kubernetes standardized on the Container Runtime Interface (CRI) so any compliant runtime (containerd, CRI-O) could be used directly without a Docker-specific compatibility shim; dockershim added maintenance burden and was deprecated then removed, meaning Kubernetes no longer talks to the Docker daemon directly — it talks to containerd or another CRI runtime.
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