See KEP in progress - kubernetes/enhancements#1985
dockershim has been part of kubelet for far too long. we vendor in a whole bunch of stuff from moby/moby to make things work. The correct split/ar...

Editor’s note: this post is part of a series of in-depth articles on what's new in Kubernetes 1.5
At the lowest layers of a Kubernetes node is the software that, among other things, starts and stops containers. We call this the “Container Runtime”. The most widely known container runtime is Docker, but it is not alone in this space. In fact, the container runtime space has been rapidly evolving. As part of the effort to make Kubernetes more extensible, we've been working on a new plugin API for container runtimes in Kubernetes, called "CRI".

Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management - kubernetes/kubernetes

Прим. перев.: свежая публикация в блоге Kubernetes — оперативный ответ на ту шумиху, что поднялась вокруг грядущего релиза K8s, в котором поддержка Docker будет объявлена устаревшей. Представляем...