diff --git a/pkg/daemons/agent/agent_linux.go b/pkg/daemons/agent/agent_linux.go
index c8a202f070..377b9b80ce 100644
--- a/pkg/daemons/agent/agent_linux.go
+++ b/pkg/daemons/agent/agent_linux.go
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import (
 )
 
 func createRootlessConfig(argsMap map[string]string, hasCFS, hasPIDs bool) {
+	argsMap["feature-gates=KubeletInUserNamespace"] = "true"
 	// "/sys/fs/cgroup" is namespaced
 	cgroupfsWritable := unix.Access("/sys/fs/cgroup", unix.W_OK) == nil
 	if hasCFS && hasPIDs && cgroupfsWritable {