This link has a more thorough detail on what is actually happening and when - https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-node/1985-remove-d

This link has a more thorough detail on what is actually happening and when - https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-node/1985-remove-dockershim https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/... Bottom line I think is that using docker as a container runtime with K8S is going to be harder unless cri-dockerd becomes production grade but even then, from the Cons section it looks like it will not be a good option - cri-dockerd will vendor kubernetes/kubernetes, that may be tough. cri-dockerd as an independent software running on node should be allocated enough resource to guarantee its availability.