Your clusters use a container runtime to create and run Kubernetes Pods and
GKE on Bare Metal requires your container runtime to be containerd.
You must continue to install Docker on your
admin workstation
because bmctl requires Docker for operations, such as cluster creation. You
can still use Docker to create images and build application containers. Those
containers still work inside your cluster.
Check the status of the container runtime
To check the status of the container runtime, run the following command:
systemctl status containerd