Troubleshooting Kubelet’s Connection to Containerd: Resolving “dial unix /var/run/containerd/containerd.sock: connect: no such file or directory” Errors

The error logs you’ve shared indicate that the Kubelet service is unable to connect to the Containerd runtime. Specifically, the error message dial unix /var/run/containerd/containerd.sock: connect: no such file or directory suggests that the Kubelet cannot find the Containerd socket file. This typically means that Containerd is either not installed, not running, or its configuration is incorrect.

Here are steps to troubleshoot and resolve the issue:

1. Check if Containerd is installed: Ensure that Containerd is installed on your system. You can check this by running:

which containerd

1. Check if Containerd service is running: Verify that the Containerd service is active. You can check its status by running:

sudo systemctl status containerd

1. If it is not running, try to start it:

sudo systemctl start containerd

1. Review Containerd logs: If Containerd is installed and running, but you still encounter issues, check the Containerd logs for more details:

sudo journalctl -u containerd