diff --git a/cmd/kubelet/app/options/container_runtime.go b/cmd/kubelet/app/options/container_runtime.go
index 795594b6a13..3e0b1e4cf16 100644
--- a/cmd/kubelet/app/options/container_runtime.go
+++ b/cmd/kubelet/app/options/container_runtime.go
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ package options
 
 import (
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet/config"
-	kubetypes "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet/types"
 )
 
 const (
@@ -36,7 +35,6 @@ var (
 // default values.
 func NewContainerRuntimeOptions() *config.ContainerRuntimeOptions {
 	return &config.ContainerRuntimeOptions{
-		ContainerRuntime: kubetypes.RemoteContainerRuntime,
-		PodSandboxImage:  defaultPodSandboxImage,
+		PodSandboxImage: defaultPodSandboxImage,
 	}
 }
diff --git a/cmd/kubelet/app/options/options.go b/cmd/kubelet/app/options/options.go
index fe5467d65c2..bba7c05c41a 100644
--- a/cmd/kubelet/app/options/options.go
+++ b/cmd/kubelet/app/options/options.go
@@ -33,11 +33,11 @@ import (
 	"k8s.io/kubelet/config/v1beta1"
 	kubeletapis "k8s.io/kubelet/pkg/apis"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/cluster/ports"
+	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/features"
 	kubeletconfig "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet/apis/config"
 	kubeletscheme "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet/apis/config/scheme"
 	kubeletconfigvalidation "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet/apis/config/validation"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet/config"
-	kubetypes "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet/types"
 	utilflag "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/util/flag"
 )
 
@@ -179,8 +179,8 @@ func ValidateKubeletFlags(f *KubeletFlags) error {
 		return fmt.Errorf("invalid node labels: %s", strings.Join(labelErrs, "; "))
 	}
 
-	if f.ContainerRuntime != kubetypes.RemoteContainerRuntime {
-		return fmt.Errorf("unsupported CRI runtime: %q, only %q is currently supported", f.ContainerRuntime, kubetypes.RemoteContainerRuntime)
+	if f.SeccompDefault && !utilfeature.DefaultFeatureGate.Enabled(features.SeccompDefault) {
+		return fmt.Errorf("the SeccompDefault feature gate must be enabled in order to use the --seccomp-default flag")
 	}
 
 	return nil
diff --git a/cmd/kubelet/app/options/options_test.go b/cmd/kubelet/app/options/options_test.go
index e306d7ea914..9abfbd9d06e 100644
--- a/cmd/kubelet/app/options/options_test.go
+++ b/cmd/kubelet/app/options/options_test.go
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ import (
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/diff"
 	cliflag "k8s.io/component-base/cli/flag"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet/config"
-	kubetypes "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet/types"
 )
 
 func newKubeletServerOrDie() *KubeletServer {
@@ -180,10 +179,8 @@ func TestValidateKubeletFlags(t *testing.T) {
 	for _, tt := range tests {
 		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
 			err := ValidateKubeletFlags(&KubeletFlags{
-				ContainerRuntimeOptions: config.ContainerRuntimeOptions{
-					ContainerRuntime: kubetypes.RemoteContainerRuntime,
-				},
-				NodeLabels: tt.labels,
+				ContainerRuntimeOptions: config.ContainerRuntimeOptions{},
+				NodeLabels:              tt.labels,
 			})
 
 			if tt.error && err == nil {
diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/config/flags.go b/pkg/kubelet/config/flags.go
index 45ee304f9b2..40d4a2ce1db 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/config/flags.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/config/flags.go
@@ -26,8 +26,6 @@ import (
 type ContainerRuntimeOptions struct {
 	// General Options.
 
-	// ContainerRuntime is the container runtime to use.
-	ContainerRuntime string
 	// RuntimeCgroups that container runtime is expected to be isolated in.
 	RuntimeCgroups string
 	// PodSandboxImage is the image whose network/ipc namespaces
@@ -51,8 +49,6 @@ type ContainerRuntimeOptions struct {
 // AddFlags adds flags to the container runtime, according to ContainerRuntimeOptions.
 func (s *ContainerRuntimeOptions) AddFlags(fs *pflag.FlagSet) {
 	// General settings.
-	fs.StringVar(&s.ContainerRuntime, "container-runtime", s.ContainerRuntime, "The container runtime to use. Possible value: 'remote'.")
-	fs.MarkDeprecated("container-runtime", "will be removed in 1.27 as the only valid value is 'remote'")
 	fs.StringVar(&s.RuntimeCgroups, "runtime-cgroups", s.RuntimeCgroups, "Optional absolute name of cgroups to create and run the runtime in.")
 	fs.StringVar(&s.PodSandboxImage, "pod-infra-container-image", s.PodSandboxImage, fmt.Sprintf("Specified image will not be pruned by the image garbage collector. CRI implementations have their own configuration to set this image."))
 	fs.MarkDeprecated("pod-infra-container-image", "will be removed in 1.27. Image garbage collector will get sandbox image information from CRI.")
diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/types/constants.go b/pkg/kubelet/types/constants.go
index 14c64525364..32af6d6baa4 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/types/constants.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/types/constants.go
@@ -25,11 +25,6 @@ const (
 	RFC3339NanoLenient = "2006-01-02T15:04:05.999999999Z07:00"
 )
 
-// Different container runtimes.
-const (
-	RemoteContainerRuntime = "remote"
-)
-
 // User visible keys for managing node allocatable enforcement on the node.
 const (
 	NodeAllocatableEnforcementKey = "pods"