diff --git a/tools/packaging/kata-deploy/scripts/kata-deploy.sh b/tools/packaging/kata-deploy/scripts/kata-deploy.sh
index 58517480f6..9785fce67f 100755
--- a/tools/packaging/kata-deploy/scripts/kata-deploy.sh
+++ b/tools/packaging/kata-deploy/scripts/kata-deploy.sh
@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ function configure_containerd_runtime() {
 	local pluginid=cri
 	
 	# if we are running k0s auto containerd.toml generation, the base template is by default version 2
-	# we can safely assume to reference the older version of cri
+	# we can safely assume to reference the newer version of cri
 	if grep -q "version = 2\>" $containerd_conf_file || [ "$1" == "k0s-worker" ] || [ "$1" == "k0s-controller" ]; then
 		pluginid=\"io.containerd.grpc.v1.cri\"
 	fi