diff --git a/manifests/enable-coreos-podman-check.yaml b/manifests/enable-coreos-podman-check.yaml
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+ostree-layers:
+  - overlay/14container
diff --git a/overlay.d/14container/usr/lib/systemd/system-preset/14-fcos.preset b/overlay.d/14container/usr/lib/systemd/system-preset/14-fcos.preset
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+++ b/overlay.d/14container/usr/lib/systemd/system-preset/14-fcos.preset
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+enable coreos-podman-changes-check.service
diff --git a/overlay.d/14container/usr/lib/systemd/system/coreos-podman-changes-check.service b/overlay.d/14container/usr/lib/systemd/system/coreos-podman-changes-check.service
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+++ b/overlay.d/14container/usr/lib/systemd/system/coreos-podman-changes-check.service
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+# This service checks if the system nodes are still using
+# cgroups v1 and CNI networking. If so, they will be warned
+# to move their nodes to cgroups v2 and netavark respectively.
+[Unit]
+Description=Check if nodes are still using cgroupv1 or CNI networking
+[Service]
+Type=oneshot
+ExecStart=/usr/libexec/coreos-podman-changes-check
+RemainAfterExit=yes
+[Install]
+WantedBy=multi-user.target
diff --git a/overlay.d/14container/usr/libexec/coreos-podman-changes-check b/overlay.d/14container/usr/libexec/coreos-podman-changes-check
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+#!/usr/bin/bash
+# Podman is dropping support for cgroup v1 and CNI networking.
+# Podman 5 changes: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Podman5
+# This script checks if the system nodes are still using
+# cgroups v1 and CNI networking. If so, they will warned
+# to move their nodes to cgroups v2 and netavark respectively.
+
+# Change the output color to yellow
+warn=$(echo -e '\033[0;33m')
+# No color
+nc=$(echo -e '\033[0m')
+
+# For cgroup v2, the output is cgroup2fs.
+# For cgroup v1, the output is tmpfs.
+# Ref: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/architecture/cgroups/#check-cgroup-version
+# Update an existing system from cgroupsv1 to cgroupsv2 and immediately reboot
+# Run $ sudo rpm-ostree kargs --delete=systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy --reboot
+
+cgroupVersion=$(stat -fc %T /sys/fs/cgroup/)
+
+if [[ $cgroupVersion == "tmpfs" ]]; then
+ echo -e "${warn}Podman is dropping support for cgroups v1. Move your nodes to cgroups v2 if not already${nc}"
+fi
+
+# Podman supports two network backends Netavark and CNI.
+# Netavark is the default network backend and was added in
+# Podman version 4.0. CNI is deprecated and is removed
+# in Podman version 5.0, in preference of Netavark.
+podmanBackend=$(podman info --format "{{.Host.NetworkBackend}}")
+
+if [[ $podmanBackend != "netavark" ]]; then
+ echo -e "${warn}Podman is dropping support for CNI networking entirely. Switch to netavark${nc}"
+ fi