diff --git a/templates/cluster-templates/bases/hcloud-kcp-ubuntu.yaml b/templates/cluster-templates/bases/hcloud-kcp-ubuntu.yaml
index a1ce9055d..224f1c3b2 100644
--- a/templates/cluster-templates/bases/hcloud-kcp-ubuntu.yaml
+++ b/templates/cluster-templates/bases/hcloud-kcp-ubuntu.yaml
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ spec:
           nameserver 2606:4700:4700::1111
     preKubeadmCommands:
       - set -x
-      - export CONTAINERD=1.7.23 # update: datasource=github-tags depName=containerd/containerd extractVersion=^v(?<version>.*)$ versioning=semver
+      - export CONTAINERD=2.0.0 # update: datasource=github-tags depName=containerd/containerd extractVersion=^v(?<version>.*)$ versioning=semver
       - export KUBERNETES_VERSION=$(echo ${KUBERNETES_VERSION} | sed 's/^v//')
       - export TRIMMED_KUBERNETES_VERSION=$(echo ${KUBERNETES_VERSION} | sed 's/^v//' | awk -F . '{print $1 "." $2}')
       - ARCH=amd64
diff --git a/templates/cluster-templates/bases/hetznerbaremetal-kcp-ubuntu.yaml b/templates/cluster-templates/bases/hetznerbaremetal-kcp-ubuntu.yaml
index f238013bb..63981c39a 100644
--- a/templates/cluster-templates/bases/hetznerbaremetal-kcp-ubuntu.yaml
+++ b/templates/cluster-templates/bases/hetznerbaremetal-kcp-ubuntu.yaml
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ spec:
           nameserver 2606:4700:4700::1111
     preKubeadmCommands:
       - set -x
-      - export CONTAINERD=1.7.23 # update: datasource=github-tags depName=containerd/containerd extractVersion=^v(?<version>.*)$ versioning=semver
+      - export CONTAINERD=2.0.0 # update: datasource=github-tags depName=containerd/containerd extractVersion=^v(?<version>.*)$ versioning=semver
       - export KUBERNETES_VERSION=$(echo ${KUBERNETES_VERSION} | sed 's/^v//')
       - export TRIMMED_KUBERNETES_VERSION=$(echo ${KUBERNETES_VERSION} | sed 's/^v//' | awk -F . '{print $1 "." $2}')
       - localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8
diff --git a/templates/cluster-templates/bases/kct-md-0-ubuntu.yaml b/templates/cluster-templates/bases/kct-md-0-ubuntu.yaml
index 3fc58a35d..ba6612e36 100644
--- a/templates/cluster-templates/bases/kct-md-0-ubuntu.yaml
+++ b/templates/cluster-templates/bases/kct-md-0-ubuntu.yaml
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ spec:
       preKubeadmCommands:
         - set -x
         - grep VERSION= /etc/os-release; uname -a
-        - export CONTAINERD=1.7.23 # update: datasource=github-tags depName=containerd/containerd extractVersion=^v(?<version>.*)$ versioning=semver
+        - export CONTAINERD=2.0.0 # update: datasource=github-tags depName=containerd/containerd extractVersion=^v(?<version>.*)$ versioning=semver
         - export KUBERNETES_VERSION=$(echo ${KUBERNETES_VERSION} | sed 's/^v//')
         - export TRIMMED_KUBERNETES_VERSION=$(echo ${KUBERNETES_VERSION} | sed 's/^v//' | awk -F . '{print $1 "." $2}')
         - ARCH=amd64