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 ### Install CNI plugins
 
-> **Note:** You do not need to install CNI plugins if you do not want to use containerd with Kubernetes.
 > If you have installed Kubernetes with `kubeadm`, you might have already installed the CNI plugins.
 
 You can manually install CNI plugins as follows: