failed to run Kubelet: failed to create kubelet: misconfiguration: kubelet cgroup driver: “systemd” is different from docker cgroup driver: “cgroupfs”

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Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
Release: 16.04
Codename: xenial

Docker version 17.06.0-ce, build 02c1d87

openshift-origin-server-v3.6.0-c4dd4cf-linux-64bit

I followed the steps under https://docs.openshift.org/latest/getting_started/administrators.html#downloading-the-binary and got the error in the title. To fix this you have to add “–exec-opt native.cgroupdriver=systemd” to ExecStart of docker. The best way to do this is to add a addin file /etc/systemd/system/docker.service.d/override.conf with following content:

[Service]
ExecStart=
ExecStart=/usr/bin/dockerd -H fd:// --exec-opt native.cgroupdriver=systemd

Then reload systemd and restart docker:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl restart docker