diff --git a/components/packaging/.gitignore b/components/packaging/.gitignore
index abe1c339c4..c0f77a4b3d 100644
--- a/components/packaging/.gitignore
+++ b/components/packaging/.gitignore
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@ build
 debbuild
 rpmbuild
 tmp
+artifacts
diff --git a/components/packaging/containerd.mk b/components/packaging/containerd.mk
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9871469030
--- /dev/null
+++ b/components/packaging/containerd.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+# Common things for containerd functionality
+
+CONTAINERD_PROXY_COMMIT=3337fb47f10892318361b58c8483f19b1ffa8203
+CONTAINERD_SHIM_PROCESS_IMAGE=docker.io/docker/containerd-shim-process:a4d1531
+
+# If the docker-containerd.sock is available use that, else use the default containerd.sock
+ifeq (,$(wildcard /var/run/docker/containerd/docker-containerd.sock))
+CONTAINERD_SOCK:=/var/run/docker/containerd/docker-containerd.sock
+else
+CONTAINERD_SOCK:=/var/run/containerd/containerd.sock
+endif
+CTR=docker run \
+	--rm -i \
+	-v $(CONTAINERD_SOCK):/ours/containerd.sock \
+	-v $(CURDIR)/artifacts:/artifacts \
+	docker:18.06.0-ce \
+	docker-containerd-ctr -a /ours/containerd.sock
diff --git a/components/packaging/rpm/Makefile b/components/packaging/rpm/Makefile
index 6cc849a09d..203f43f214 100644
--- a/components/packaging/rpm/Makefile
+++ b/components/packaging/rpm/Makefile
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+include ../containerd.mk
+
 ARCH=$(shell uname -m)
 ENGINE_DIR:=$(CURDIR)/../../engine
 CLI_DIR:=$(CURDIR)/../../cli
@@ -17,11 +19,9 @@ RPMBUILD_FLAGS=-ba\
 	--define '_origversion $(word 4, $(GEN_RPM_VER))' \
 	SPECS/docker-ce.spec SPECS/docker-ce-cli.spec
 
-SOURCE_TGZS=containerd-proxy.tgz cli.tgz
+SOURCE_TGZS=containerd-proxy.tgz cli.tgz containerd-shim-process.tar
 SOURCES=$(addprefix rpmbuild/SOURCES/, $(SOURCE_TGZS))
 
-CONTAINERD_PROXY_COMMIT=3337fb47f10892318361b58c8483f19b1ffa8203
-
 .PHONY: help
 help: ## show make targets
 	@awk 'BEGIN {FS = ":.*?## "} /^[a-zA-Z_-]+:.*?## / {sub("\\\\n",sprintf("\n%22c"," "), $$2);printf " \033[36m%-20s\033[0m  %s\n", $$1, $$2}' $(MAKEFILE_LIST)
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ centos: centos-7 ## build all centos rpm packages
 .PHONY: fedora-28
 fedora-28: ## build fedora-28 rpm packages
 fedora-28: $(SOURCES)
+	$(CHOWN) -R root:root rpmbuild
 	docker build --build-arg GO_VERSION=$(GO_VERSION) -t rpmbuild-$@/$(ARCH) -f $@/Dockerfile.$(ARCH) .
 	$(RPMBUILD) rpmbuild-$@/$(ARCH) $(RPMBUILD_FLAGS)
 	$(CHOWN) -R $(shell id -u):$(shell id -g) rpmbuild
@@ -51,6 +52,7 @@ fedora-28: $(SOURCES)
 .PHONY: fedora-27
 fedora-27: ## build fedora-27 rpm packages
 fedora-27: $(SOURCES)
+	$(CHOWN) -R root:root rpmbuild
 	docker build --build-arg GO_VERSION=$(GO_VERSION) -t rpmbuild-$@/$(ARCH) -f $@/Dockerfile.$(ARCH) .
 	$(RPMBUILD) rpmbuild-$@/$(ARCH) $(RPMBUILD_FLAGS)
 	$(CHOWN) -R $(shell id -u):$(shell id -g) rpmbuild
@@ -58,6 +60,7 @@ fedora-27: $(SOURCES)
 .PHONY: centos-7
 centos-7: ## build centos-7 rpm packages
 centos-7: $(SOURCES)
+	$(CHOWN) -R root:root rpmbuild
 	docker build --build-arg GO_VERSION=$(GO_VERSION) -t rpmbuild-$@/$(ARCH) -f $@/Dockerfile.$(ARCH) .
 	$(RPMBUILD) rpmbuild-$@/$(ARCH) $(RPMBUILD_FLAGS)
 	$(CHOWN) -R $(shell id -u):$(shell id -g) rpmbuild
@@ -79,4 +82,10 @@ rpmbuild/SOURCES/containerd-proxy.tgz:
 	$(CHOWN) -R $(shell id -u):$(shell id -g) rpmbuild
 	tar -zcf $@ -C tmp/ containerd-proxy
 	rm -rf tmp/
-	$(CHOWN) -R root:root rpmbuild/SOURCES
+
+rpmbuild/SOURCES/containerd-shim-process.tar:
+	$(CTR) content fetch $(CONTAINERD_SHIM_PROCESS_IMAGE)
+	$(CTR) image export artifacts/containerd-shim-process.tar $(CONTAINERD_SHIM_PROCESS_IMAGE)
+	mkdir -p $(@D)
+	cp artifacts/containerd-shim-process.tar $@
+	$(CHOWN) -R $(shell id -u):$(shell id -g) rpmbuild
diff --git a/components/packaging/rpm/SPECS/docker-ce.spec b/components/packaging/rpm/SPECS/docker-ce.spec
index 2bd53ba8e6..b0e4ca51f4 100644
--- a/components/packaging/rpm/SPECS/docker-ce.spec
+++ b/components/packaging/rpm/SPECS/docker-ce.spec
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ Version: %{_version}
 Release: %{_release}%{?dist}
 Epoch: %{getenv:EPOCH}
 Source0: containerd-proxy.tgz
+Source1: containerd-shim-process.tar
 Summary: The open-source application container engine
 Group: Tools/Docker
 License: ASL 2.0
@@ -13,6 +14,8 @@ Vendor: Docker
 Packager: Docker <support@docker.com>
 
 Requires: docker-ce-cli
+# Should be required as well by docker-ce-cli but let's just be thorough
+Requires: containerd.io
 
 # conflicting packages
 Conflicts: docker
@@ -40,6 +43,7 @@ depending on a particular stack or provider.
 %setup -q -c -n src
 
 %build
+# dockerd proxy compilation
 mkdir -p /go/src/github.com/crosbymichael/
 ls %{_topdir}/BUILD/src
 ln -s %{_topdir}/BUILD/src/containerd-proxy /go/src/github.com/crosbymichael/containerd-proxy
@@ -47,9 +51,12 @@ go build -v -o /build/dockerd github.com/crosbymichael/containerd-proxy
 
 %install
 install -D -m 0755 /build/dockerd $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_bindir}/dockerd
+# TODO: Use containerd-offline-installer to actually install this as ExecStartPre systemd step
+install -D -m 0644 %{_topdir}/SOURCES/containerd-shim-process.tar $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_sharedstatedir}/containerd/containerd-shim-process.tar
 
 %files
 /%{_bindir}/dockerd
+/%{_sharedstatedir}/containerd/containerd-shim-process.tar
 
 %post
 if ! getent group docker > /dev/null; then