diff --git a/hack/jenkins/common.sh b/hack/jenkins/common.sh
index 07673308a0..e8f38379e0 100755
--- a/hack/jenkins/common.sh
+++ b/hack/jenkins/common.sh
@@ -20,12 +20,13 @@
 # The script expects the following env variables:
 # OS_ARCH: The operating system and the architecture separated by a hyphen '-' (e.g. darwin-amd64, linux-amd64, windows-amd64)
 # VM_DRIVER: the driver to use for the test
+# CONTAINER_RUNTIME: the container runtime to use for the test
 # EXTRA_START_ARGS: additional flags to pass into minikube start
 # EXTRA_TEST_ARGS: additional flags to pass into go test
 # JOB_NAME: the name of the logfile and check name to update on github
 
 readonly TEST_ROOT="${HOME}/minikube-integration"
-readonly TEST_HOME="${TEST_ROOT}/${OS_ARCH}-${VM_DRIVER}-${MINIKUBE_LOCATION}-$$-${COMMIT}"
+readonly TEST_HOME="${TEST_ROOT}/${OS_ARCH}-${VM_DRIVER}-${CONTAINER_RUNTIME}-${MINIKUBE_LOCATION}-$$-${COMMIT}"
 export GOPATH="$HOME/go"
 export KUBECONFIG="${TEST_HOME}/kubeconfig"
 export PATH=$PATH:"/usr/local/bin/:/usr/local/go/bin/:$GOPATH/bin"
@@ -52,6 +53,7 @@ echo ""
 echo "arch:      ${OS_ARCH}"
 echo "build:     ${MINIKUBE_LOCATION}"
 echo "driver:    ${VM_DRIVER}"
+echo "runtime:   $CONTAINER_RUNTIME"
 echo "job:       ${JOB_NAME}"
 echo "test home: ${TEST_HOME}"
 echo "sudo:      ${SUDO_PREFIX}"
@@ -299,7 +301,7 @@ if test -f "${TEST_OUT}"; then
 fi
 touch "${TEST_OUT}"
 ${SUDO_PREFIX}${E2E_BIN} \
-  -minikube-start-args="--driver=${VM_DRIVER} ${EXTRA_START_ARGS}" \
+  -minikube-start-args="--driver=${VM_DRIVER} --container-runtime=${CONTAINER_RUNTIME} ${EXTRA_START_ARGS}" \
   -test.timeout=${TIMEOUT} -test.v \
   ${EXTRA_TEST_ARGS} \
   -binary="${MINIKUBE_BIN}" 2>&1 | tee "${TEST_OUT}"
diff --git a/hack/jenkins/linux_integration_tests_docker.sh b/hack/jenkins/linux_integration_tests_docker.sh
index fb912d2391..faba877c8c 100755
--- a/hack/jenkins/linux_integration_tests_docker.sh
+++ b/hack/jenkins/linux_integration_tests_docker.sh
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ set -e
 OS_ARCH="linux-amd64"
 VM_DRIVER="docker"
 JOB_NAME="Docker_Linux"
+CONTAINER_RUNTIME="docker"
 
 mkdir -p cron && gsutil -qm rsync "gs://minikube-builds/${MINIKUBE_LOCATION}/cron" cron || echo "FAILED TO GET CRON FILES"
 sudo install cron/cleanup_and_reboot_Linux.sh /etc/cron.hourly/cleanup_and_reboot || echo "FAILED TO INSTALL CLEANUP"
diff --git a/hack/jenkins/linux_integration_tests_docker_containerd.sh b/hack/jenkins/linux_integration_tests_docker_containerd.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0d1a53ebf8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hack/jenkins/linux_integration_tests_docker_containerd.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Copyright 2019 The Kubernetes Authors All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+
+# This script runs the integration tests on a Linux machine for the KVM Driver
+
+# The script expects the following env variables:
+# MINIKUBE_LOCATION: GIT_COMMIT from upstream build.
+# COMMIT: Actual commit ID from upstream build
+# EXTRA_BUILD_ARGS (optional): Extra args to be passed into the minikube integrations tests
+# access_token: The Github API access token. Injected by the Jenkins credential provider. 
+
+set -e
+
+OS_ARCH="linux-amd64"
+VM_DRIVER="docker"
+JOB_NAME="Docker_Linux_containerd"
+CONTAINER_RUNTIME="containerd"
+
+
+mkdir -p cron && gsutil -qm rsync "gs://minikube-builds/${MINIKUBE_LOCATION}/cron" cron || echo "FAILED TO GET CRON FILES"
+sudo install cron/cleanup_and_reboot_Linux.sh /etc/cron.hourly/cleanup_and_reboot || echo "FAILED TO INSTALL CLEANUP"
+
+# removing possible left over docker containers from previous runs
+docker rm -f -v $(docker ps -aq) >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+
+source ./common.sh
diff --git a/hack/jenkins/minikube_set_pending.sh b/hack/jenkins/minikube_set_pending.sh
index 1f2f5e4075..7bcdd813c6 100755
--- a/hack/jenkins/minikube_set_pending.sh
+++ b/hack/jenkins/minikube_set_pending.sh
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ jobs=(
      'KVM_Linux'
      'none_Linux'
      'Docker_Linux'
+     'Docker_Linux_containerd'
      # 'Docker_macOS'
      # 'Docker_Windows'
      # 'Podman_Linux'