# conrainerd [containerd] An industry-standard container runtime with an emphasis on simplicity, robustness and portability Kubespray supports basic functionality for using containerd as the default container runtime in a cluster. _To use the containerd container runtime set the following variables:_ ## k8s-cluster.yml ```yaml container_manager: containerd ``` ## Containerd config Example: define registry mirror for docker hub ```yaml containerd_config: grpc: max_recv_message_size: 16777216 max_send_message_size: 16777216 debug: level: "" registries: "docker.io": - "https://mirror.gcr.io" - "https://registry-1.docker.io" ``` [containerd]: https://containerd.io/