diff --git a/nodes/mysocketio/mysocketio.go b/nodes/mysocketio/mysocketio.go
index ef6e0c0cb..31a2df560 100644
--- a/nodes/mysocketio/mysocketio.go
+++ b/nodes/mysocketio/mysocketio.go
@@ -33,7 +33,10 @@ func (s *mySocketIO) PreDeploy(configName, labCADir, labCARoot string) error {
 	// utils.CreateDirectory(s.cfg.LabDir, 0777)
 	return nil
 }
-func (s *mySocketIO) Deploy(ctx context.Context, r runtime.ContainerRuntime) error { return nil }
+
+func (s *mySocketIO) Deploy(ctx context.Context, r runtime.ContainerRuntime) error {
+	return r.CreateContainer(ctx, s.cfg)
+}
 
 func (s *mySocketIO) PostDeploy(ctx context.Context, r runtime.ContainerRuntime, ns map[string]nodes.Node) error {
 	log.Debugf("Running postdeploy actions for mysocketio '%s' node", s.cfg.ShortName)
diff --git a/runtime/containerd/containerd.go b/runtime/containerd/containerd.go
index 34e0504d1..aa88d3c4c 100644
--- a/runtime/containerd/containerd.go
+++ b/runtime/containerd/containerd.go
@@ -490,8 +490,8 @@ func (c *ContainerdRuntime) ListContainers(ctx context.Context, filter []*types.
 
 func (c *ContainerdRuntime) buildFilterString(filter []*types.GenericFilter) string {
 	filterstring := ""
-	delim := ""
-	for _, filterEntry := range filter {
+	delim := ","
+	for counter, filterEntry := range filter {
 		isExistsOperator := false
 
 		operator := filterEntry.Operator
@@ -503,14 +503,17 @@ func (c *ContainerdRuntime) buildFilterString(filter []*types.GenericFilter) str
 			isExistsOperator = true
 		}
 
+		if counter+1 == len(filter) {
+			delim = ""
+		}
+
 		if filterEntry.FilterType == "label" {
-			filterstring = filterstring + "labels." + filterEntry.Field
+			filterstring = filterstring + "labels.\"" + filterEntry.Field + "\""
 			if !isExistsOperator {
-				filterstring = filterstring + operator + filterEntry.Match + delim
+				filterstring = filterstring + operator + "\"" + filterEntry.Match + "\"" + delim
 			}
 
 		} // more might be implemented later
-		delim = ","
 	}
 	log.Debug("Filterstring: " + filterstring)
 	return filterstring
diff --git a/tests/01-smoke/03-bridges-and-host.robot b/tests/01-smoke/03-bridges-and-host.robot
index c79e2a4d4..a08df3dbd 100644
--- a/tests/01-smoke/03-bridges-and-host.robot
+++ b/tests/01-smoke/03-bridges-and-host.robot
@@ -50,16 +50,14 @@ Verify links in host ns
     Should Contain    ${output}    state UP
 
 Verify management network is using user-specified bridge
-    # containerd has an issue with filtering at this moment, so skip it
-    Skip If    '${runtime}' != 'docker'
     # show management interface info and cut the information about the ifindex of the remote veth
     # note that exec returns the info in the stderr stream, thus we use stderr to parse the ifindex
     ${rc}    ${iface} =    OperatingSystem.Run And Return Rc And Output
-    ...    sudo containerlab --runtime ${runtime} exec -t ${CURDIR}/${lab-file} --label clab-node-name\=l1 --cmd "ip l show eth0" 2>&1 | cut -d ' ' -f5 | cut -d '@' -f2 | cut -c3-
+    ...    sudo containerlab --runtime ${runtime} exec -t ${CURDIR}/${lab-file} --label clab-node-name\=l1 --cmd "ip l show eth0" 2>&1 | perl -lne '/.*[0-9]+: .*\\@if(.*:) .*/ && print $1'
     Log    ${iface}
     Should Be Equal As Integers    ${rc}    0
     ${rc}    ${res} =    OperatingSystem.Run And Return Rc And Output
-    ...    sudo ip l | grep ${iface}
+    ...    sudo ip l | grep "${iface}"
     Log    ${res}
     Should Contain    ${res}    master ${mgmt-br-name} state UP