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-# LinuxKit Kubernetes project
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-The [LinuxKit](https://github.com/linuxkit/kubernetes) is a project for building os images for kubernetes master and worker node virtual machines.
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-When the images are built with cri-containerd as the `KUBE_RUNTIME` option they will use `cri-containerd` as their execution backend.
-```
-make all KUBE_RUNTIME=cri-containerd
-```