beginnerDocker Architecture, Engine, Daemon, Client & Registry
Why was dockershim removed from Kubernetes, and does that mean Docker images stopped working?
Kubernetes removed dockershim (the compatibility layer that let kubelet talk to dockerd) because it added an unnecessary extra layer; kubelet now talks to containerd or CRI-O directly via the CRI interface. Docker-built images are OCI-compliant, so they run completely unaffected — only the underlying runtime used to start them changed.
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