<p>I heard that Dockershim has been removed from Kubernetes 1.24. I have not used minikube for a while as I was using kind and k3s. But right now I see Minikube 1.30.1 says starting k8s 1.26 on kvm VM using docker 20.10.23. How is this possible?</p>

Alex K
<p>As per the <a href="https://kubernetes.io/blog/2022/02/17/dockershim-faq/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">official doc</a>, dockershim was deprecated and you can use CRI (Container Run Time) as an interface to docker instead of dockershim. CRI-compatible runtimes like containerd and CRI-O are already being used and supported hence it has become the recommended way to run Docker with Kubernetes.</p>
<p>As mentioned in official docs you can also use another tool that support dockershim :</p>
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<pre><code>Is there any tooling that can help me find dockershim in use?

Yes! The Detector for Docker Socket (DDS) is a kubectl plugin that you can install and then use to check your cluster.
DDS can detect if active Kubernetes workloads are mounting the Docker Engine socket (docker.sock) as a volume.
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<p>Link for: <a href="https://github.com/aws-containers/kubectl-detector-for-docker-socket" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Detector for Docker Socket (DDS)</a></p>
