diff --git a/kubernetes/kubernetes-1.18.1/centos/files/kubeadm.conf b/kubernetes/kubernetes-1.18.1/centos/files/kubeadm.conf
index 2fb25ba27..da0611444 100644
--- a/kubernetes/kubernetes-1.18.1/centos/files/kubeadm.conf
+++ b/kubernetes/kubernetes-1.18.1/centos/files/kubeadm.conf
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ EnvironmentFile=-/var/lib/kubelet/kubeadm-flags.env
 EnvironmentFile=-/etc/sysconfig/kubelet
 ExecStart=
 ExecStart=/usr/bin/kubelet $KUBELET_KUBECONFIG_ARGS $KUBELET_CONFIG_ARGS $KUBELET_KUBEADM_ARGS $KUBELET_EXTRA_ARGS
+ExecStartPre=-/usr/local/sbin/sanitize_kubelet_reserved_cpus.sh /etc/sysconfig/kubelet
 ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/kubelet-cgroup-setup.sh
 ExecStartPost=/bin/bash -c 'echo $MAINPID > /var/run/kubelet.pid;'
 ExecStopPost=/bin/rm -f /var/run/kubelet.pid
diff --git a/kubernetes/kubernetes-1.19.13/centos/files/kubeadm.conf b/kubernetes/kubernetes-1.19.13/centos/files/kubeadm.conf
index 2fb25ba27..da0611444 100644
--- a/kubernetes/kubernetes-1.19.13/centos/files/kubeadm.conf
+++ b/kubernetes/kubernetes-1.19.13/centos/files/kubeadm.conf
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ EnvironmentFile=-/var/lib/kubelet/kubeadm-flags.env
 EnvironmentFile=-/etc/sysconfig/kubelet
 ExecStart=
 ExecStart=/usr/bin/kubelet $KUBELET_KUBECONFIG_ARGS $KUBELET_CONFIG_ARGS $KUBELET_KUBEADM_ARGS $KUBELET_EXTRA_ARGS
+ExecStartPre=-/usr/local/sbin/sanitize_kubelet_reserved_cpus.sh /etc/sysconfig/kubelet
 ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/kubelet-cgroup-setup.sh
 ExecStartPost=/bin/bash -c 'echo $MAINPID > /var/run/kubelet.pid;'
 ExecStopPost=/bin/rm -f /var/run/kubelet.pid
diff --git a/kubernetes/kubernetes-1.20.9/centos/files/kubeadm.conf b/kubernetes/kubernetes-1.20.9/centos/files/kubeadm.conf
index 2fb25ba27..da0611444 100644
--- a/kubernetes/kubernetes-1.20.9/centos/files/kubeadm.conf
+++ b/kubernetes/kubernetes-1.20.9/centos/files/kubeadm.conf
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ EnvironmentFile=-/var/lib/kubelet/kubeadm-flags.env
 EnvironmentFile=-/etc/sysconfig/kubelet
 ExecStart=
 ExecStart=/usr/bin/kubelet $KUBELET_KUBECONFIG_ARGS $KUBELET_CONFIG_ARGS $KUBELET_KUBEADM_ARGS $KUBELET_EXTRA_ARGS
+ExecStartPre=-/usr/local/sbin/sanitize_kubelet_reserved_cpus.sh /etc/sysconfig/kubelet
 ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/kubelet-cgroup-setup.sh
 ExecStartPost=/bin/bash -c 'echo $MAINPID > /var/run/kubelet.pid;'
 ExecStopPost=/bin/rm -f /var/run/kubelet.pid
diff --git a/kubernetes/kubernetes-1.21.8/centos/files/kubeadm.conf b/kubernetes/kubernetes-1.21.8/centos/files/kubeadm.conf
index 2fb25ba27..da0611444 100644
--- a/kubernetes/kubernetes-1.21.8/centos/files/kubeadm.conf
+++ b/kubernetes/kubernetes-1.21.8/centos/files/kubeadm.conf
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ EnvironmentFile=-/var/lib/kubelet/kubeadm-flags.env
 EnvironmentFile=-/etc/sysconfig/kubelet
 ExecStart=
 ExecStart=/usr/bin/kubelet $KUBELET_KUBECONFIG_ARGS $KUBELET_CONFIG_ARGS $KUBELET_KUBEADM_ARGS $KUBELET_EXTRA_ARGS
+ExecStartPre=-/usr/local/sbin/sanitize_kubelet_reserved_cpus.sh /etc/sysconfig/kubelet
 ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/kubelet-cgroup-setup.sh
 ExecStartPost=/bin/bash -c 'echo $MAINPID > /var/run/kubelet.pid;'
 ExecStopPost=/bin/rm -f /var/run/kubelet.pid
diff --git a/kubernetes/kubernetes-1.21.8/debian/deb_folder/kubeadm.conf b/kubernetes/kubernetes-1.21.8/debian/deb_folder/kubeadm.conf
index 2fb25ba27..da0611444 100644
--- a/kubernetes/kubernetes-1.21.8/debian/deb_folder/kubeadm.conf
+++ b/kubernetes/kubernetes-1.21.8/debian/deb_folder/kubeadm.conf
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ EnvironmentFile=-/var/lib/kubelet/kubeadm-flags.env
 EnvironmentFile=-/etc/sysconfig/kubelet
 ExecStart=
 ExecStart=/usr/bin/kubelet $KUBELET_KUBECONFIG_ARGS $KUBELET_CONFIG_ARGS $KUBELET_KUBEADM_ARGS $KUBELET_EXTRA_ARGS
+ExecStartPre=-/usr/local/sbin/sanitize_kubelet_reserved_cpus.sh /etc/sysconfig/kubelet
 ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/kubelet-cgroup-setup.sh
 ExecStartPost=/bin/bash -c 'echo $MAINPID > /var/run/kubelet.pid;'
 ExecStopPost=/bin/rm -f /var/run/kubelet.pid
diff --git a/kubernetes/kubernetes-1.22.5/centos/files/kubeadm.conf b/kubernetes/kubernetes-1.22.5/centos/files/kubeadm.conf
index 2fb25ba27..da0611444 100644
--- a/kubernetes/kubernetes-1.22.5/centos/files/kubeadm.conf
+++ b/kubernetes/kubernetes-1.22.5/centos/files/kubeadm.conf
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ EnvironmentFile=-/var/lib/kubelet/kubeadm-flags.env
 EnvironmentFile=-/etc/sysconfig/kubelet
 ExecStart=
 ExecStart=/usr/bin/kubelet $KUBELET_KUBECONFIG_ARGS $KUBELET_CONFIG_ARGS $KUBELET_KUBEADM_ARGS $KUBELET_EXTRA_ARGS
+ExecStartPre=-/usr/local/sbin/sanitize_kubelet_reserved_cpus.sh /etc/sysconfig/kubelet
 ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/kubelet-cgroup-setup.sh
 ExecStartPost=/bin/bash -c 'echo $MAINPID > /var/run/kubelet.pid;'
 ExecStopPost=/bin/rm -f /var/run/kubelet.pid
diff --git a/kubernetes/kubernetes-unversioned/centos/files/sanitize_kubelet_reserved_cpus.sh b/kubernetes/kubernetes-unversioned/centos/files/sanitize_kubelet_reserved_cpus.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..1dcdbfdb5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kubernetes/kubernetes-unversioned/centos/files/sanitize_kubelet_reserved_cpus.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
+#! /bin/bash
+# Copyright (c) 2022 Wind River Systems, Inc.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+#
+# The script will run everytime before the kubelet service is started.
+# (Runs as a "ExecStartPre" action)
+#
+# It reads the reserved-cpus list for the kubelet from the kubelet
+# environment file and sanitizes it on the basis of online CPUs.
+#
+# If none of the reserved cpus is online, it removes the --reserved-cpus flag
+# from the environment file which allows the kubelet to choose CPUs itself
+#
+
+ENVIRONMENT_FILE=$1
+
+# Log info message to /var/log/daemon.log
+function LOG {
+    logger -p daemon.info "$0($$): $@"
+}
+
+
+# Log error message to /var/log/daemon.log
+function ERROR {
+    logger -s -p daemon.error "$0($$): ERROR: $@"
+}
+
+function sanitize_reserved_cpus {
+    kubelet_extra_args=$(cat ${ENVIRONMENT_FILE} 2>/dev/null)
+    RC=$?
+    if [ ${RC} != "0" ]; then
+        ERROR "Error reading kubelet extra arguments. Error code: [${RC}]"
+        exit ${RC}
+    fi
+
+    # Get reserved-cpus comma-separated-values string from environment file and strip double quotes
+    # format of kubelet_extra_args is:
+    # "KUBELET_EXTRA_ARGS=--cni-bin-dir=/usr/libexec/cni --node-ip=abcd:204::2
+    # --system-reserved=memory=9000Mi --reserved-cpus="0-29" --pod-max-pids 10000"
+    if [[ ${kubelet_extra_args} =~ --reserved-cpus=\"([0-9,-]+)\" ]]; then
+        reserved_cpus=${BASH_REMATCH[1]}
+    else
+        reserved_cpus=""
+    fi
+    if test -z "${reserved_cpus}"; then
+        LOG "No reserved-cpu list found for kubelet. Nothing to do."
+        exit 0
+    fi
+    LOG "Current reserved-cpus for the kubelet service: ${reserved_cpus}"
+
+    cpus_online=$(cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/online)
+    RC=$?
+    if [ ${RC} != "0" ]; then
+        ERROR "Error reading online CPU list. Error code: [${RC}]"
+        exit ${RC}
+    fi
+    LOG "Online CPUs: ${cpus_online}"
+
+    # Possible formats for reserved_cpus could be
+    # 0,2,4,6
+    # 0-23,36-45
+    # 0-4,6,9,13,23-34
+    expanded_reserved_cpus=$(expand_sequence ${reserved_cpus})
+    reserved_cpus_array=(${expanded_reserved_cpus//,/ })
+
+    sanitized_reserved_cpus=""
+    for element in "${reserved_cpus_array[@]}"; do
+        in_list ${element} ${cpus_online}
+        if [[ "$?" == "0" ]] ; then
+            sanitized_reserved_cpus+=",${element}"
+        fi
+    done
+    # Remove the extra leading ','
+    sanitized_reserved_cpus=${sanitized_reserved_cpus#","}
+    LOG "Sanitized reserved-cpus list for the kubelet: ${sanitized_reserved_cpus}"
+
+    if test -z "${sanitized_reserved_cpus}"; then
+        # Strip out --reserved-cpus option if no reserved-cpus are online
+        sed -i "s/ --reserved-cpus=\"${reserved_cpus}\"//g" ${ENVIRONMENT_FILE}
+    else
+        # Replace existing reserved-cpus with sanitized list
+        sed -i "s/--reserved-cpus=\"${reserved_cpus}\"/--reserved-cpus=\"${sanitized_reserved_cpus}\"/g" ${ENVIRONMENT_FILE}
+    fi
+    RC="$?"
+    if [ ${RC} != "0" ]; then
+        ERROR "Error updating reserved-cpus list for the kubelet. Error code: [${RC}]"
+        exit ${RC}
+    fi
+    LOG "Successfully updated reserved-cpus list for the kubelet."
+
+}
+
+source /etc/init.d/cpumap_functions.sh
+
+sanitize_reserved_cpus
+
+exit 0
diff --git a/kubernetes/kubernetes-unversioned/centos/kubernetes-unversioned.spec b/kubernetes/kubernetes-unversioned/centos/kubernetes-unversioned.spec
index c9136ef0a..f9944f10c 100644
--- a/kubernetes/kubernetes-unversioned/centos/kubernetes-unversioned.spec
+++ b/kubernetes/kubernetes-unversioned/centos/kubernetes-unversioned.spec
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ Source3: kubelet_override.yaml
 
 Source4: upgrade_k8s_config.sh
 
+Source5: sanitize_kubelet_reserved_cpus.sh
+
 Patch1: kubelet-service-remove-docker-dependency.patch
 
 BuildArch: noarch
@@ -101,6 +103,8 @@ install -d %{buildroot}%{local_sbindir}
 # install execution scripts
 install -m 700 %{SOURCE4} %{buildroot}/%{local_sbindir}/upgrade_k8s_config.sh
 
+install -m 700 %{SOURCE5} %{buildroot}/%{local_sbindir}/sanitize_kubelet_reserved_cpus.sh
+
 # install service files
 install -v -d -m 0755 %{buildroot}%{_unitdir}
 install -v -m 0644 -t %{buildroot}%{_unitdir} contrib/init/systemd/kubelet.service
@@ -120,6 +124,7 @@ install -v -p -m 0644 -t %{buildroot}/%{_sysconfdir}/systemd/system.conf.d %{SOU
 
 # the following are execution scripts
 %{local_sbindir}/upgrade_k8s_config.sh
+%{local_sbindir}/sanitize_kubelet_reserved_cpus.sh
 
 # the following are symlinks
 %{_bindir}/kubeadm
diff --git a/kubernetes/kubernetes-unversioned/debian/deb_folder/kubernetes-unversioned.install b/kubernetes/kubernetes-unversioned/debian/deb_folder/kubernetes-unversioned.install
index 8e2cb1e78..717ad0279 100644
--- a/kubernetes/kubernetes-unversioned/debian/deb_folder/kubernetes-unversioned.install
+++ b/kubernetes/kubernetes-unversioned/debian/deb_folder/kubernetes-unversioned.install
@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@ etc/kubernetes/kubelet.kubeconfig
 etc/kubernetes/proxy
 etc/systemd/system.conf.d/kubernetes-accounting.conf
 usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/kubernetes.conf
+usr/local/sbin/sanitize_kubelet_reserved_cpus.sh
diff --git a/kubernetes/kubernetes-unversioned/debian/deb_folder/not-installed b/kubernetes/kubernetes-unversioned/debian/deb_folder/not-installed
index 666a84f38..ae7c9c81b 100644
--- a/kubernetes/kubernetes-unversioned/debian/deb_folder/not-installed
+++ b/kubernetes/kubernetes-unversioned/debian/deb_folder/not-installed
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 usr/bin/kubeadm
 usr/bin/kubelet
 usr/bin/kubelet-cgroup-setup.sh
+usr/local/sbin/sanitize_kubelet_reserved_cpus.sh
 usr/bin/kubectl
 etc/systemd/system/kubelet.service.d/kubeadm.conf
 usr/share/bash-completion/completions/kubectl
diff --git a/kubernetes/kubernetes-unversioned/debian/deb_folder/rules b/kubernetes/kubernetes-unversioned/debian/deb_folder/rules
index 18921fccd..70b19abdc 100755
--- a/kubernetes/kubernetes-unversioned/debian/deb_folder/rules
+++ b/kubernetes/kubernetes-unversioned/debian/deb_folder/rules
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 
 _k8s_name := kubernetes
 _bindir := /usr/bin
+_local_sbindir := /usr/local/sbin
 _curr_stage1 := /usr/local/kubernetes/current/stage1
 _curr_stage2 := /usr/local/kubernetes/current/stage2
 
@@ -60,6 +61,10 @@ override_dh_install:
 	install -v -d -m 0755 ${DEBIAN_DESTDIR}/etc/systemd/system.conf.d
 	install -v -p -m 0644 -t ${DEBIAN_DESTDIR}/etc/systemd/system.conf.d debian/kubernetes-accounting.conf
 
+	# install scripts
+	install -v -m 0700 -d ${DEBIAN_DESTDIR}${_local_sbindir}
+	install -v -m 0700 -d ${DEBIAN_DESTDIR}${_local_sbindir}/sanitize_kubelet_reserved_cpus.sh
+
 	dh_install
 
 override_dh_usrlocal:
diff --git a/kubernetes/kubernetes-unversioned/debian/deb_folder/sanitize_kubelet_reserved_cpus.sh b/kubernetes/kubernetes-unversioned/debian/deb_folder/sanitize_kubelet_reserved_cpus.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..1dcdbfdb5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kubernetes/kubernetes-unversioned/debian/deb_folder/sanitize_kubelet_reserved_cpus.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
+#! /bin/bash
+# Copyright (c) 2022 Wind River Systems, Inc.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+#
+# The script will run everytime before the kubelet service is started.
+# (Runs as a "ExecStartPre" action)
+#
+# It reads the reserved-cpus list for the kubelet from the kubelet
+# environment file and sanitizes it on the basis of online CPUs.
+#
+# If none of the reserved cpus is online, it removes the --reserved-cpus flag
+# from the environment file which allows the kubelet to choose CPUs itself
+#
+
+ENVIRONMENT_FILE=$1
+
+# Log info message to /var/log/daemon.log
+function LOG {
+    logger -p daemon.info "$0($$): $@"
+}
+
+
+# Log error message to /var/log/daemon.log
+function ERROR {
+    logger -s -p daemon.error "$0($$): ERROR: $@"
+}
+
+function sanitize_reserved_cpus {
+    kubelet_extra_args=$(cat ${ENVIRONMENT_FILE} 2>/dev/null)
+    RC=$?
+    if [ ${RC} != "0" ]; then
+        ERROR "Error reading kubelet extra arguments. Error code: [${RC}]"
+        exit ${RC}
+    fi
+
+    # Get reserved-cpus comma-separated-values string from environment file and strip double quotes
+    # format of kubelet_extra_args is:
+    # "KUBELET_EXTRA_ARGS=--cni-bin-dir=/usr/libexec/cni --node-ip=abcd:204::2
+    # --system-reserved=memory=9000Mi --reserved-cpus="0-29" --pod-max-pids 10000"
+    if [[ ${kubelet_extra_args} =~ --reserved-cpus=\"([0-9,-]+)\" ]]; then
+        reserved_cpus=${BASH_REMATCH[1]}
+    else
+        reserved_cpus=""
+    fi
+    if test -z "${reserved_cpus}"; then
+        LOG "No reserved-cpu list found for kubelet. Nothing to do."
+        exit 0
+    fi
+    LOG "Current reserved-cpus for the kubelet service: ${reserved_cpus}"
+
+    cpus_online=$(cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/online)
+    RC=$?
+    if [ ${RC} != "0" ]; then
+        ERROR "Error reading online CPU list. Error code: [${RC}]"
+        exit ${RC}
+    fi
+    LOG "Online CPUs: ${cpus_online}"
+
+    # Possible formats for reserved_cpus could be
+    # 0,2,4,6
+    # 0-23,36-45
+    # 0-4,6,9,13,23-34
+    expanded_reserved_cpus=$(expand_sequence ${reserved_cpus})
+    reserved_cpus_array=(${expanded_reserved_cpus//,/ })
+
+    sanitized_reserved_cpus=""
+    for element in "${reserved_cpus_array[@]}"; do
+        in_list ${element} ${cpus_online}
+        if [[ "$?" == "0" ]] ; then
+            sanitized_reserved_cpus+=",${element}"
+        fi
+    done
+    # Remove the extra leading ','
+    sanitized_reserved_cpus=${sanitized_reserved_cpus#","}
+    LOG "Sanitized reserved-cpus list for the kubelet: ${sanitized_reserved_cpus}"
+
+    if test -z "${sanitized_reserved_cpus}"; then
+        # Strip out --reserved-cpus option if no reserved-cpus are online
+        sed -i "s/ --reserved-cpus=\"${reserved_cpus}\"//g" ${ENVIRONMENT_FILE}
+    else
+        # Replace existing reserved-cpus with sanitized list
+        sed -i "s/--reserved-cpus=\"${reserved_cpus}\"/--reserved-cpus=\"${sanitized_reserved_cpus}\"/g" ${ENVIRONMENT_FILE}
+    fi
+    RC="$?"
+    if [ ${RC} != "0" ]; then
+        ERROR "Error updating reserved-cpus list for the kubelet. Error code: [${RC}]"
+        exit ${RC}
+    fi
+    LOG "Successfully updated reserved-cpus list for the kubelet."
+
+}
+
+source /etc/init.d/cpumap_functions.sh
+
+sanitize_reserved_cpus
+
+exit 0