diff --git a/containerd.service b/containerd.service
index 62332cb25..32486ef7a 100644
--- a/containerd.service
+++ b/containerd.service
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/containerd
 
 Delegate=yes
 KillMode=process
+Restart=always
 # Having non-zero Limit*s causes performance problems due to accounting overhead
 # in the kernel. We recommend using cgroups to do container-local accounting.
 LimitNPROC=infinity