diff --git a/metropolis/node/kubernetes/kubelet.go b/metropolis/node/kubernetes/kubelet.go
index 16fb520..7a75ecf 100644
--- a/metropolis/node/kubernetes/kubelet.go
+++ b/metropolis/node/kubernetes/kubelet.go
@@ -121,6 +121,10 @@
 		MaxPods:      253,
 		PodLogsDir:   "/data/kubelet/logs",
 		FeatureGates: extraFeatureGates.AsMap(),
+		// Only kill a single process on OOM instead of the whole container.
+		// This is generally the more sane behavior and was default under
+		// cgroups v1.
+		SingleProcessOOMKill: ptr.To(true),
 	}
 }