diff --git a/cluster-provision/gocli/opts/nodes/testconfig.go b/cluster-provision/gocli/opts/nodes/testconfig.go
index f0a00461ad..41ba16ee8f 100644
--- a/cluster-provision/gocli/opts/nodes/testconfig.go
+++ b/cluster-provision/gocli/opts/nodes/testconfig.go
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ func AddExpectCalls(sshClient *kubevirtcimocks.MockSSHClient) {
 	cmds := []string{
 		"source /var/lib/kubevirtci/shared_vars.sh",
 		`timeout=30; interval=5; while ! hostnamectl | grep Transient; do echo "Waiting for dhclient to set the hostname from dnsmasq"; sleep $interval; timeout=$((timeout - interval)); [ $timeout -le 0 ] && exit 1; done`,
-		`echo "KUBELET_EXTRA_ARGS=--cgroup-driver=systemd --runtime-cgroups=/systemd/system.slice --kubelet-cgroups=/systemd/system.slice --fail-swap-on=false  --feature-gates=NodeSwap=true,CPUManager=true --cpu-manager-policy=static --kube-reserved=cpu=500m --system-reserved=cpu=500m" | tee /etc/sysconfig/kubelet > /dev/null`,
+		`echo "KUBELET_EXTRA_ARGS=--cgroup-driver=systemd --runtime-cgroups=/systemd/system.slice --kubelet-cgroups=/systemd/system.slice --fail-swap-on=false  --feature-gates=NodeSwap=true --cpu-manager-policy=static --kube-reserved=cpu=500m --system-reserved=cpu=500m" | tee /etc/sysconfig/kubelet > /dev/null`,
 		"systemctl daemon-reload &&  service kubelet restart",
 		"swapoff -a",
 		"until ip address show dev eth0 | grep global | grep inet6; do sleep 1; done",
diff --git a/cluster-up/cluster/kind/common.sh b/cluster-up/cluster/kind/common.sh
index e63614b924..d207fda936 100755
--- a/cluster-up/cluster/kind/common.sh
+++ b/cluster-up/cluster/kind/common.sh
@@ -266,7 +266,6 @@ function _add_kubeadm_cpu_manager_config_patch() {
     kind: JoinConfiguration
     nodeRegistration:
       kubeletExtraArgs:
-        "feature-gates": "CPUManager=true"
         "cpu-manager-policy": "static"
         "kube-reserved": "cpu=500m"
         "system-reserved": "cpu=500m"