diff --git a/contrib/gce/configure.sh b/contrib/gce/configure.sh
index ca990ea8a..346f9ed2d 100755
--- a/contrib/gce/configure.sh
+++ b/contrib/gce/configure.sh
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ curl -f --ipv4 -Lo "${TARBALL}" --connect-timeout 20 --max-time 300 --retry 6 --
 tar xvf "${TARBALL}"
 
 # Copy crictl config.
-cp "${CRI_CONTAINERD_HOME}/etc/crictl.yaml" /etc
+cp "${CONTAINERD_HOME}/etc/crictl.yaml" /etc
 
 echo "export PATH=${CONTAINERD_HOME}/usr/local/bin/:${CONTAINERD_HOME}/usr/local/sbin/:\$PATH" > \
   /etc/profile.d/containerd_env.sh
diff --git a/contrib/gce/env b/contrib/gce/env
index 203f714c2..5c7c40428 100644
--- a/contrib/gce/env
+++ b/contrib/gce/env
@@ -3,12 +3,11 @@ GCE_DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )"
 
 # TODO(random-liu): Upload release tarball to user's own GCS, and use it. We should
 # not let all nodes of all users download tarball from cri-containerd-release.
-if [ -z "${CRI_CONTAINERD_VERSION:-}" ]; then
-  CRI_CONTAINERD_VERSION=$(curl -f --ipv4 --retry 6 --retry-delay 3 --silent --show-error \
-    https://storage.googleapis.com/cri-containerd-release/latest)
+version_file=${GCE_DIR}/../version
+if [ ! -f "${version_file}" ]; then
+  echo "version file does not exist"
+  exit 1
 fi
-version_file=$(mktemp /tmp/version.XXXX)
-echo "${CRI_CONTAINERD_VERSION}" > "$version_file"
 export KUBE_MASTER_EXTRA_METADATA="user-data=${GCE_DIR}/cloud-init/master.yaml,containerd-configure-sh=${GCE_DIR}/configure.sh,version=${version_file}"
 export KUBE_NODE_EXTRA_METADATA="user-data=${GCE_DIR}/cloud-init/node.yaml,containerd-configure-sh=${GCE_DIR}/configure.sh,version=${version_file}"
 export KUBE_CONTAINER_RUNTIME="remote"