diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos/sysext/containerd/usr/lib/systemd/system/containerd.service b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos/sysext/containerd/usr/lib/systemd/system/containerd.service
index ac2b18d806..32ef37f649 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos/sysext/containerd/usr/lib/systemd/system/containerd.service
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos/sysext/containerd/usr/lib/systemd/system/containerd.service
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ After=network.target
 
 [Service]
 Delegate=yes
+# /opt/bin needs to be in path for nvidia-container-runtime
+Environment=PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/opt/bin
 Environment=CONTAINERD_CONFIG=/usr/share/containerd/config.toml
 ExecStartPre=mkdir -p /run/docker/libcontainerd
 ExecStartPre=ln -fs /run/containerd/containerd.sock /run/docker/libcontainerd/docker-containerd.sock
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos/sysext/containerd/usr/share/containerd/config.toml b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos/sysext/containerd/usr/share/containerd/config.toml
index babc77b0e0..adef752141 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos/sysext/containerd/usr/share/containerd/config.toml
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos/sysext/containerd/usr/share/containerd/config.toml
@@ -36,3 +36,10 @@ enable_selinux = true
 runtime_type = "io.containerd.runc.v2"
 [plugins."io.containerd.grpc.v1.cri".containerd.runtimes.runc.options]
 SystemdCgroup = true
+
+[plugins."io.containerd.grpc.v1.cri".containerd.runtimes.nvidia]
+runtime_type = "io.containerd.runc.v2"
+
+[plugins."io.containerd.grpc.v1.cri".containerd.runtimes.nvidia.options]
+BinaryName = "/usr/bin/nvidia-container-runtime"
+SystemdCgroup = true