Actually, since the sysconfig files are backed up by 'fillup-templates', here is the content of /usr/share/fillup-templates/sysconfig.kubelet: KUBELET_EXTRA_ARGS="--container-runtime=remote --container-runtime-endpoint=unix:///var/run/crio/crio.sock --runtime-request-timeout=15m --cgroup-driver=systemd -v=2" This is the content of /etc/sysconfig/kubelet - after I've manually fixed it: KUBELET_VER=1.27 KUBELET_EXTRA_ARGS="--container-runtime-endpoint=unix:///var/run/crio/crio.sock --runtime-request-timeout=14m --cgroup-driver=systemd -v=2"