diff --git a/recipes-containers/k3s/k3s/k3s-killall.sh b/recipes-containers/k3s/k3s/k3s-killall.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9e726153
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes-containers/k3s/k3s/k3s-killall.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Based on: k3s-killall.sh installed when running Rancher Lab's K3S install.sh
+# In open-source project: https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s
+#
+# Original file: Copyright (c) 2021 Rancher Labs and Contributors.
+# Modifications: Copyright (c) 2021 Arm Limited and Contributors. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Modifications:
+# - Change systemd service directory location
+# - Fix PID parsing to run on core image
+# - Remove service stopping code (as this is intended to run as part of service
+#   stop)
+# - Changes to resolve warnings from the ShellCheck static analysis tool
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache License 2.0
+
+[ "$(id -u)" -eq 0 ] || exec sudo "$0" "$@"
+
+for bin in /var/lib/rancher/k3s/data/**/bin/; do
+    [ -d "$bin" ] && export PATH=$PATH:$bin:$bin/aux
+done
+
+set -x
+
+pschildren() {
+    ps -e -o ppid= -o pid= | sed -e 's/^\s*//g; s/\s\s*/\t/g;' | grep -w "^$1" | cut -f2
+}
+
+pstree() {
+    for pid in "$@"; do
+        echo "$pid"
+        for child in $(pschildren "$pid"); do
+            pstree "$child"
+        done
+    done
+}
+
+killtree() {
+    while read -r pid; do
+        if [ -n "${pid}" ]; then
+                kill -9 "${pid}" 2>/dev/null
+        fi
+    done <<EOF
+$({ set +x; } 2>/dev/null; pstree "$@"; set -x;)
+EOF
+}
+
+getshims() {
+    ps -e -o pid= -o args= | sed -e 's/^ *//; s/\s\s*/\t/;' | grep -w '[^/]*/bin/containerd-shim' | cut -f1
+}
+
+killtree "$({ set +x; } 2>/dev/null; getshims; set -x)"
+
+# shellcheck disable=SC2016
+do_unmount_and_remove() {
+    set +x
+    while read -r _ path _; do
+        case "$path" in $1*) echo "$path" ;; esac
+    done < /proc/self/mounts | sort -r | xargs -r -t -n 1 sh -c 'umount "$0" && rm -rf "$0"'
+    set -x
+}
+
+do_unmount_and_remove '/run/k3s'
+do_unmount_and_remove '/var/lib/rancher/k3s'
+do_unmount_and_remove '/var/lib/kubelet/pods'
+do_unmount_and_remove '/var/lib/kubelet/plugins'
+do_unmount_and_remove '/run/netns/cni-'
+
+# Remove CNI namespaces
+ip netns show 2>/dev/null | grep cni- | xargs -r -t -n 1 ip netns delete
+
+# Delete network interface(s) that match 'master cni0'
+ip link show 2>/dev/null | grep 'master cni0' | while read -r _ iface _; do
+    iface=${iface%%@*}
+    [ -z "$iface" ] || ip link delete "$iface"
+done
+ip link delete cni0
+ip link delete flannel.1
+ip link delete flannel-v6.1
+rm -rf /var/lib/cni/
+iptables-save | grep -v KUBE- | grep -v CNI- | iptables-restore
diff --git a/recipes-containers/k3s/k3s/k3s.service b/recipes-containers/k3s/k3s/k3s.service
index 34c7a804..33d3ee74 100644
--- a/recipes-containers/k3s/k3s/k3s.service
+++ b/recipes-containers/k3s/k3s/k3s.service
@@ -4,12 +4,17 @@ Description=Lightweight Kubernetes
 Documentation=https://k3s.io
 Requires=containerd.service
 After=containerd.service
+After=network-online.target
+Wants=network-online.target
 
 [Install]
 WantedBy=multi-user.target
 
 [Service]
 Type=notify
+EnvironmentFile=-/etc/default/%N
+EnvironmentFile=-/etc/sysconfig/%N
+EnvironmentFile=-/etc/systemd/system/k3s.service.env
 KillMode=process
 Delegate=yes
 # Having non-zero Limit*s causes performance problems due to accounting overhead
@@ -21,7 +26,12 @@ TasksMax=infinity
 TimeoutStartSec=0
 Restart=always
 RestartSec=5s
+ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -xc '! systemctl is-enabled --quiet nm-cloud-setup.service'
 ExecStartPre=-/sbin/modprobe br_netfilter
 ExecStartPre=-/sbin/modprobe overlay
 ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/k3s server
-
+# Avoid any delay due to this service when the system is rebooting or shutting
+# down by using the k3s-killall.sh script to kill all of the running k3s
+# services and containers
+ExecStopPost=/bin/sh -c "if systemctl is-system-running | grep -i \
+                           'stopping'; then /usr/local/bin/k3s-killall.sh; fi"
diff --git a/recipes-containers/k3s/k3s_git.bb b/recipes-containers/k3s/k3s_git.bb
index 5971ddec..0300fc3c 100644
--- a/recipes-containers/k3s/k3s_git.bb
+++ b/recipes-containers/k3s/k3s_git.bb
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ SRC_URI = "git://github.com/rancher/k3s.git;branch=release-1.22;name=k3s \
            file://k3s-clean \
            file://cni-containerd-net.conf \
            file://0001-Finding-host-local-in-usr-libexec.patch;patchdir=src/import \
+           file://k3s-killall.sh \
           "
 SRC_URI[k3s.md5sum] = "363d3a08dc0b72ba6e6577964f6e94a5"
 SRCREV_k3s = "737f722315b9832e9180fa232253d28ae1f2272f"
@@ -60,6 +61,7 @@ do_install() {
         # ln -sr "${D}/${BIN_PREFIX}/bin/k3s" "${D}${BIN_PREFIX}/bin/ctr"
         ln -sr "${D}/${BIN_PREFIX}/bin/k3s" "${D}${BIN_PREFIX}/bin/kubectl"
         install -m 755 "${WORKDIR}/k3s-clean" "${D}${BIN_PREFIX}/bin"
+        install -m 755 "${WORKDIR}/k3s-killall.sh" "${D}${BIN_PREFIX}/bin"
 
         if ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES','systemd','true','false',d)}; then
                 install -D -m 0644 "${WORKDIR}/k3s.service" "${D}${systemd_system_unitdir}/k3s.service"