Sometimes you genuinely want Docker Engine as the Kubernetes node runtime — a team standardized on the Docker CLI/API for tooling, an image-build box that doubles as a node, or a legacy playbook you can't rewrite yet. Since dockershim was removed in Kubernetes 1.24, that path now runs through cri-dockerd , an open-source CRI adapter maintained by Mirantis. Here's how to set it up on Ubuntu, and an honest note on whether you should. Should you? A quick reality check For mos...