How do I enable containerd?

Question

When I run systemctl status containerd, I get the following output:

● containerd.service - containerd container runtime
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/containerd.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Wed 2022-08-31 19:22:36 UTC; 6 months 27 days ago
     Docs: https://containerd.io
 Main PID: 3881 (containerd)
    Tasks: 165
   Memory: 87.5M
   CGroup: /system.slice/containerd.service

How can I change the status to enabled and what are the possible consequences of doing so?

Other facts:

• This is running Amazon Linux 2 on an EKS worker node.
• The containerd version is containerd github.com/containerd/containerd 1.6.6 10c12954828e7c7c9b6e0ea9b0c02b01407d3ae1.
• The kubelet version is Kubernetes v1.22.12-eks-ba74326.

Answer 1

You can do sudo systemctl enable containerd.service

it will create the necessary symlinks for the containerd.service to be started during the boot process.

And to verify systemctl is-enabled containerd.service