diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index d74d90be5..f6c268180 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ generate: protos
 	@echo "$(WHALE) $@"
 	@PATH="${ROOTDIR}/bin:${PATH}" $(GO) generate -x ${PACKAGES}
 
-protos: bin/protoc-gen-gogoctrd ## generate protobuf
+protos: bin/protoc-gen-go-fieldpath
 	@echo "$(WHALE) $@"
 	@find . -path ./vendor -prune -false -o -name '*.pb.go' | xargs rm
 	$(eval TMPDIR := $(shell mktemp -d))
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ protos: bin/protoc-gen-gogoctrd ## generate protobuf
 	@(PATH="${ROOTDIR}/bin:${PATH}" protobuild --quiet ${NON_API_PACKAGES})
 	@mv ${TMPDIR}/vendor ${ROOTDIR}
 	@rm -rf ${TMPDIR}
-	go-fix-acronym -w -a '(Io|Uuid|Os)$$' $(shell find api -name '*.pb.go')
+	go-fix-acronym -w -a '(Id|Io|Uuid|Os)$$' $(shell find api/ runtime/ -name '*.pb.go')
 
 check-protos: protos ## check if protobufs needs to be generated again
 	@echo "$(WHALE) $@"
diff --git a/Protobuild.toml b/Protobuild.toml
index bb68f7ce2..e5a441531 100644
--- a/Protobuild.toml
+++ b/Protobuild.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
-version = "1"
-generator = "gogoctrd"
-plugins = ["grpc", "fieldpath"]
+version = "2"
+generators = ["go"]
 
 # Control protoc include paths. Below are usually some good defaults, but feel
 # free to try it without them if it works for your project.
@@ -12,25 +11,13 @@ plugins = ["grpc", "fieldpath"]
   # Paths that should be treated as include roots in relation to the vendor
   # directory. These will be calculated with the vendor directory nearest the
   # target package.
-  packages = ["github.com/gogo/protobuf", "github.com/gogo/googleapis"]
+  packages = ["github.com/gogo/protobuf"]
 
   # Paths that will be added untouched to the end of the includes. We use
   # `/usr/local/include` to pickup the common install location of protobuf.
   # This is the default.
   after = ["/usr/local/include", "/usr/include"]
 
-# This section maps protobuf imports to Go packages. These will become
-# `-M` directives in the call to the go protobuf generator.
-[packages]
-  "gogoproto/gogo.proto" = "github.com/gogo/protobuf/gogoproto"
-  "google/protobuf/any.proto" = "github.com/gogo/protobuf/types"
-  "google/protobuf/empty.proto" = "github.com/gogo/protobuf/types"
-  "google/protobuf/descriptor.proto" = "github.com/gogo/protobuf/protoc-gen-gogo/descriptor"
-  "google/protobuf/field_mask.proto" = "github.com/gogo/protobuf/types"
-  "google/protobuf/timestamp.proto" = "github.com/gogo/protobuf/types"
-  "google/protobuf/duration.proto" = "github.com/gogo/protobuf/types"
-  "google/rpc/status.proto" = "github.com/gogo/googleapis/google/rpc"
-
 [[overrides]]
 # enable ttrpc and disable fieldpath and grpc for the shim
 prefixes = [
@@ -38,7 +25,7 @@ prefixes = [
     "github.com/containerd/containerd/api/runtime/task/v2",
     "github.com/containerd/containerd/api/runtime/sandbox/v1",
 ]
-plugins = ["ttrpc"]
+generators = ["go", "go-ttrpc"]
 
 # Lock down runc config
 [[descriptors]]
diff --git a/api/Protobuild.toml b/api/Protobuild.toml
index d1815786e..9a01909d4 100644
--- a/api/Protobuild.toml
+++ b/api/Protobuild.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
-version = "1"
-generator = "gogoctrd"
-plugins = ["grpc", "fieldpath"]
+version = "2"
+generators = ["go", "go-grpc"]
 
 # Control protoc include paths. Below are usually some good defaults, but feel
 # free to try it without them if it works for your project.
@@ -12,7 +11,7 @@ plugins = ["grpc", "fieldpath"]
   # Paths that should be treated as include roots in relation to the vendor
   # directory. These will be calculated with the vendor directory nearest the
   # target package.
-  packages = ["github.com/gogo/protobuf", "github.com/gogo/googleapis"]
+  packages = ["github.com/gogo/protobuf"]
 
   # Paths that will be added untouched to the end of the includes. We use
   # `/usr/local/include` to pickup the common install location of protobuf.
@@ -22,22 +21,15 @@ plugins = ["grpc", "fieldpath"]
 # This section maps protobuf imports to Go packages. These will become
 # `-M` directives in the call to the go protobuf generator.
 [packages]
-  "gogoproto/gogo.proto" = "github.com/gogo/protobuf/gogoproto"
-  "google/protobuf/any.proto" = "github.com/gogo/protobuf/types"
-  "google/protobuf/empty.proto" = "github.com/gogo/protobuf/types"
-  "google/protobuf/descriptor.proto" = "github.com/gogo/protobuf/protoc-gen-gogo/descriptor"
-  "google/protobuf/field_mask.proto" = "github.com/gogo/protobuf/types"
-  "google/protobuf/timestamp.proto" = "github.com/gogo/protobuf/types"
-  "google/protobuf/duration.proto" = "github.com/gogo/protobuf/types"
-  "google/rpc/status.proto" = "github.com/gogo/googleapis/google/rpc"
+  "google/rpc/status.proto" = "google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/rpc/status"
 
 [[overrides]]
 prefixes = ["github.com/containerd/containerd/api/events"]
-plugins = ["fieldpath"] # disable grpc for this package
+generators = ["go", "go-ttrpc", "go-fieldpath"]
 
 [[overrides]]
 prefixes = ["github.com/containerd/containerd/api/services/ttrpc/events/v1"]
-plugins = ["ttrpc", "fieldpath"]
+generators = ["go", "go-ttrpc", "go-fieldpath"]
 
 [[overrides]]
 # enable ttrpc and disable fieldpath and grpc for the shim
@@ -46,7 +38,7 @@ prefixes = [
   "github.com/containerd/containerd/api/runtime/task/v2",
   "github.com/containerd/containerd/api/runtime/sandbox/v1",
 ]
-plugins = ["ttrpc"]
+generators = ["go", "go-ttrpc"]
 
 # Aggregrate the API descriptors to lock down API changes.
 [[descriptors]]
diff --git a/cmd/protoc-gen-gogoctrd/customnameid.go b/cmd/protoc-gen-gogoctrd/customnameid.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 50aaf4a9e..000000000
--- a/cmd/protoc-gen-gogoctrd/customnameid.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,73 +0,0 @@
-/*
-   Copyright The containerd Authors.
-
-   Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-   you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-   You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
-       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
-   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-   limitations under the License.
-*/
-
-package main
-
-import (
-	"strings"
-
-	"github.com/gogo/protobuf/gogoproto"
-	"github.com/gogo/protobuf/proto"
-	"github.com/gogo/protobuf/protoc-gen-gogo/descriptor"
-	"github.com/gogo/protobuf/protoc-gen-gogo/generator"
-	"github.com/gogo/protobuf/vanity"
-)
-
-// CustomNameID preprocess the field, and set the [(gogoproto.customname) = "..."]
-// if necessary, in order to avoid setting `gogoproto.customname` manually.
-// The automatically assigned name should conform to Golang convention.
-func CustomNameID(file *descriptor.FileDescriptorProto) {
-
-	f := func(field *descriptor.FieldDescriptorProto) {
-		// Skip if [(gogoproto.customname) = "..."] has already been set.
-		if gogoproto.IsCustomName(field) {
-			return
-		}
-		// Skip if embedded
-		if gogoproto.IsEmbed(field) {
-			return
-		}
-		if field.OneofIndex != nil {
-			return
-		}
-		fieldName := generator.CamelCase(*field.Name)
-		switch {
-		case *field.Name == "id":
-			// id -> ID
-			fieldName = "ID"
-		case strings.HasPrefix(*field.Name, "id_"):
-			// id_some -> IDSome
-			fieldName = "ID" + fieldName[2:]
-		case strings.HasSuffix(*field.Name, "_id"):
-			// some_id -> SomeID
-			fieldName = fieldName[:len(fieldName)-2] + "ID"
-		case strings.HasSuffix(*field.Name, "_ids"):
-			// some_ids -> SomeIDs
-			fieldName = fieldName[:len(fieldName)-3] + "IDs"
-		default:
-			return
-		}
-		if field.Options == nil {
-			field.Options = &descriptor.FieldOptions{}
-		}
-		if err := proto.SetExtension(field.Options, gogoproto.E_Customname, &fieldName); err != nil {
-			panic(err)
-		}
-	}
-
-	// Iterate through all fields in file
-	vanity.ForEachFieldExcludingExtensions(file.MessageType, f)
-}
diff --git a/cmd/protoc-gen-gogoctrd/main.go b/cmd/protoc-gen-gogoctrd/main.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 47c3f8a96..000000000
--- a/cmd/protoc-gen-gogoctrd/main.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
-/*
-   Copyright The containerd Authors.
-
-   Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-   you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-   You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
-       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
-   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-   limitations under the License.
-*/
-
-package main
-
-import (
-	_ "github.com/containerd/containerd/protobuf/plugin/fieldpath"
-	_ "github.com/containerd/ttrpc/plugin"
-	"github.com/gogo/protobuf/protoc-gen-gogo/descriptor"
-	"github.com/gogo/protobuf/vanity"
-	"github.com/gogo/protobuf/vanity/command"
-)
-
-func main() {
-	req := command.Read()
-	files := req.GetProtoFile()
-	files = vanity.FilterFiles(files, vanity.NotGoogleProtobufDescriptorProto)
-	for _, opt := range []func(*descriptor.FileDescriptorProto){
-		vanity.TurnOffGoGettersAll,
-		vanity.TurnOffGoStringerAll,
-		vanity.TurnOnMarshalerAll,
-		vanity.TurnOnStringerAll,
-		vanity.TurnOnUnmarshalerAll,
-		vanity.TurnOnSizerAll,
-		CustomNameID,
-	} {
-		vanity.ForEachFile(files, opt)
-	}
-
-	resp := command.Generate(req)
-	command.Write(resp)
-}
diff --git a/protobuf/plugin/fieldpath/fieldpath.go b/protobuf/plugin/fieldpath/fieldpath.go
deleted file mode 100644
index b5f3ff117..000000000
--- a/protobuf/plugin/fieldpath/fieldpath.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,172 +0,0 @@
-/*
-   Copyright The containerd Authors.
-
-   Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-   you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-   You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
-       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
-   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-   limitations under the License.
-*/
-
-package fieldpath
-
-import (
-	"strings"
-
-	"github.com/gogo/protobuf/gogoproto"
-	"github.com/gogo/protobuf/protoc-gen-gogo/descriptor"
-	"github.com/gogo/protobuf/protoc-gen-gogo/generator"
-)
-
-type fieldpathGenerator struct {
-	*generator.Generator
-	generator.PluginImports
-	typeurlPkg generator.Single
-}
-
-func init() {
-	generator.RegisterPlugin(new(fieldpathGenerator))
-}
-
-func (p *fieldpathGenerator) Name() string {
-	return "fieldpath"
-}
-
-func (p *fieldpathGenerator) Init(g *generator.Generator) {
-	p.Generator = g
-}
-
-func (p *fieldpathGenerator) Generate(file *generator.FileDescriptor) {
-	p.PluginImports = generator.NewPluginImports(p.Generator)
-	p.typeurlPkg = p.NewImport("github.com/containerd/typeurl")
-
-	for _, m := range file.Messages() {
-		if m.DescriptorProto.GetOptions().GetMapEntry() {
-			continue
-		}
-		if Enabled(file.FileDescriptorProto, m.DescriptorProto) {
-			p.generateMessage(m)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-func (p *fieldpathGenerator) generateMessage(m *generator.Descriptor) {
-	ccTypeName := generator.CamelCaseSlice(m.TypeName())
-
-	p.P()
-	p.P(`// Field returns the value for the given fieldpath as a string, if defined.`)
-	p.P(`// If the value is not defined, the second value will be false.`)
-	p.P("func(m *", ccTypeName, ") Field(fieldpath []string) (string, bool) {")
-	p.In()
-
-	var (
-		fields    []*descriptor.FieldDescriptorProto
-		unhandled []*descriptor.FieldDescriptorProto
-	)
-
-	for _, f := range m.Field {
-		if f.IsBool() || f.IsString() || isLabelsField(f) || isAnyField(f) || isMessageField(f) {
-			fields = append(fields, f)
-		} else {
-			unhandled = append(unhandled, f)
-		}
-	}
-
-	if len(fields) > 0 {
-		p.P(`if len(fieldpath) == 0 {`)
-		p.In()
-		p.P(`return "", false`)
-		p.Out()
-		p.P(`}`)
-		p.P()
-		p.P("switch fieldpath[0] {")
-
-		for _, f := range unhandled {
-			p.P("// unhandled: ", f.GetName())
-		}
-
-		for _, f := range fields {
-			fName := generator.CamelCase(*f.Name)
-			if gogoproto.IsCustomName(f) {
-				fName = gogoproto.GetCustomName(f)
-			}
-
-			p.P(`case "`, f.GetName(), `":`)
-			p.In()
-			switch {
-			case isLabelsField(f):
-				p.P(`// Labels fields have been special-cased by name. If this breaks,`)
-				p.P(`// add better special casing to fieldpath plugin.`)
-				p.P(`if len(m.`, fName, `) == 0 {`)
-				p.In()
-				p.P(`return "", false`)
-				p.Out()
-				p.P("}")
-				p.P(`value, ok := m.`, fName, `[strings.Join(fieldpath[1:], ".")]`)
-				p.P(`return value, ok`)
-			case isAnyField(f):
-				p.P(`decoded, err := `, p.typeurlPkg.Use(), `.UnmarshalAny(m.`, fName, `)`)
-				p.P(`if err != nil {`)
-				p.In()
-				p.P(`return "", false`)
-				p.Out()
-				p.P(`}`)
-				p.P()
-				p.P(`adaptor, ok := decoded.(interface { Field([]string) (string, bool) })`)
-				p.P(`if !ok {`)
-				p.In()
-				p.P(`return "", false`)
-				p.Out()
-				p.P(`}`)
-				p.P(`return adaptor.Field(fieldpath[1:])`)
-			case isMessageField(f):
-				p.P(`// NOTE(stevvooe): This is probably not correct in many cases.`)
-				p.P(`// We assume that the target message also implements the Field`)
-				p.P(`// method, which isn't likely true in a lot of cases.`)
-				p.P(`//`)
-				p.P(`// If you have a broken build and have found this comment,`)
-				p.P(`// you may be closer to a solution.`)
-				p.P(`if m.`, fName, ` == nil {`)
-				p.In()
-				p.P(`return "", false`)
-				p.Out()
-				p.P(`}`)
-				p.P()
-				p.P(`return m.`, fName, `.Field(fieldpath[1:])`)
-			case f.IsString():
-				p.P(`return string(m.`, fName, `), len(m.`, fName, `) > 0`)
-			case f.IsBool():
-				p.P(`return fmt.Sprint(m.`, fName, `), true`)
-			}
-			p.Out()
-		}
-
-		p.P(`}`)
-	} else {
-		for _, f := range unhandled {
-			p.P("// unhandled: ", f.GetName())
-		}
-	}
-
-	p.P(`return "", false`)
-	p.Out()
-	p.P("}")
-}
-
-func isMessageField(f *descriptor.FieldDescriptorProto) bool {
-	return !f.IsRepeated() && f.IsMessage() && f.GetTypeName() != ".google.protobuf.Timestamp"
-}
-
-func isLabelsField(f *descriptor.FieldDescriptorProto) bool {
-	return f.IsMessage() && f.GetName() == "labels" && strings.HasSuffix(f.GetTypeName(), ".LabelsEntry")
-}
-
-func isAnyField(f *descriptor.FieldDescriptorProto) bool {
-	return !f.IsRepeated() && f.IsMessage() && f.GetTypeName() == ".google.protobuf.Any"
-}
diff --git a/protobuf/plugin/fieldpath/helpers.go b/protobuf/plugin/fieldpath/helpers.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 5bd1b784c..000000000
--- a/protobuf/plugin/fieldpath/helpers.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-/*
-   Copyright The containerd Authors.
-
-   Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-   you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-   You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
-       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
-   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-   limitations under the License.
-*/
-
-package fieldpath
-
-import (
-	"github.com/containerd/containerd/protobuf/plugin"
-	"github.com/gogo/protobuf/proto"
-	"github.com/gogo/protobuf/protoc-gen-gogo/descriptor"
-)
-
-// Enabled returns true if E_Fieldpath is enabled
-func Enabled(file *descriptor.FileDescriptorProto, message *descriptor.DescriptorProto) bool {
-	return proto.GetBoolExtension(message.Options, plugin.E_Fieldpath, proto.GetBoolExtension(file.Options, plugin.E_FieldpathAll, false))
-}
diff --git a/script/setup/install-dev-tools b/script/setup/install-dev-tools
index e0e238818..c615b1c3f 100755
--- a/script/setup/install-dev-tools
+++ b/script/setup/install-dev-tools
@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ go install github.com/containerd/protobuild@v0.2.0
 go install github.com/containerd/protobuild/cmd/go-fix-acronym@v0.2.0
 go install github.com/cpuguy83/go-md2man/v2@v2.0.1
 go install github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/cmd/golangci-lint@v1.42.0
+go install google.golang.org/protobuf/cmd/protoc-gen-go@v1.26
+go install google.golang.org/grpc/cmd/protoc-gen-go-grpc@v1.1
+go install github.com/containerd/ttrpc/cmd/protoc-gen-go-ttrpc@944ef4a40df3446714a823207972b7d9858ffac5
 
 # the following packages need to exist in $GOPATH so we can't use
 # go modules-aware mode of `go get` for these includes used during
diff --git a/script/setup/install-protobuf b/script/setup/install-protobuf
index ffb00fba6..8c603a79a 100755
--- a/script/setup/install-protobuf
+++ b/script/setup/install-protobuf
@@ -58,3 +58,11 @@ ppc64le)
 	;;
 esac
 rm -rf "$PROTOBUF_DIR"
+
+# Download status.proto. grpc repos' one seems copied from
+# https://github.com/googleapis/googleapis/blob/master/google/rpc/status.proto,
+# but we use grpc's since the repos has tags/releases.
+mkdir -p /usr/local/include/google/rpc
+curl \
+	-L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/grpc/grpc/v1.45.2/src/proto/grpc/status/status.proto \
+	-o /usr/local/include/google/rpc/status.proto