diff --git a/cern-release b/cern-release
index 8b9bbc15dbbf57f626199874f4e0b79079019a56..7f18c92a09e520d486d01e166b0a08f62becf47e 100755
--- a/cern-release
+++ b/cern-release
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 KUBE_TAG="v1.11.1"
 DOCKER_TAG="17.09-1"
-RELEASE="7"
+RELEASE="8"
diff --git a/kubernetes-kubelet/config.json.template b/kubernetes-kubelet/config.json.template
index 69ddc4408adcdb7e939fd3a1a83e010373789f9d..b04dfd89bca6e051c0b2036f681cdf91744b0c45 100644
--- a/kubernetes-kubelet/config.json.template
+++ b/kubernetes-kubelet/config.json.template
@@ -304,6 +304,15 @@
                "ro"
            ]
          },
+         {
+             "type": "bind",
+             "source": "/etc/hosts",
+             "destination": "/etc/hosts",
+             "options": [
+                 "rbind",
+                 "ro"
+             ]
+         },
 	 {
 	    "type": "bind",
 	    "source": "/etc/pki",