diff --git a/meta-leda-components/recipes-sdv/eclipse-kanto/container-management_%.bbappend b/meta-leda-components/recipes-sdv/eclipse-kanto/container-management_%.bbappend
index 0401f833..944f6031 100644
--- a/meta-leda-components/recipes-sdv/eclipse-kanto/container-management_%.bbappend
+++ b/meta-leda-components/recipes-sdv/eclipse-kanto/container-management_%.bbappend
@@ -19,4 +19,21 @@
 FILESEXTRAPATHS:prepend := "${THISDIR}/files:"
 
 SRC_URI += "file://service.template \
-          "
\ No newline at end of file
+            file://config.json \
+          "
+
+do_install:append() {
+
+    if ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES','systemd','true','false',d)}; then
+
+        # config.json
+        install -d ${D}${CM_CFG_DD}/container-management
+        install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/config.json ${D}${CM_CFG_DD}/container-management/config.json
+    
+        # fill in the config.json template with the custom configs provided
+        sed -e 's,@CM_LOD_DD@,${CM_LOD_DD},g' \
+          -e 's,@CM_THINGS_ENABLED@,${CM_THINGS_ENABLED},g' \
+          -i ${D}${CM_CFG_DD}/container-management/config.json
+
+    fi
+}
diff --git a/meta-leda-components/recipes-sdv/eclipse-kanto/files/config.json b/meta-leda-components/recipes-sdv/eclipse-kanto/files/config.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ecdf585f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-leda-components/recipes-sdv/eclipse-kanto/files/config.json
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+{
+    "manager": {
+        "default_ctrs_stop_timeout": 5
+    },
+    "log": {
+        "log_file": "@CM_LOD_DD@/container-management/container-management.log"
+    },
+    "things": {
+        "enable": @CM_THINGS_ENABLED@
+    }
+}