diff --git a/cmd/kubeadm/app/util/config/testdata/defaulting/controlplane/defaulted.yaml b/cmd/kubeadm/app/util/config/testdata/defaulting/controlplane/defaulted.yaml
index 813b161c93..4ea43b5fdd 100644
--- a/cmd/kubeadm/app/util/config/testdata/defaulting/controlplane/defaulted.yaml
+++ b/cmd/kubeadm/app/util/config/testdata/defaulting/controlplane/defaulted.yaml
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ cgroupsPerQOS: true
 clusterDNS:
 - 10.192.0.10
 clusterDomain: cluster.global
-configMapAndSecretChangeDetectionStrategy: Watch
+configMapAndSecretChangeDetectionStrategy: Cache
 containerLogMaxFiles: 5
 containerLogMaxSize: 10Mi
 contentType: application/vnd.kubernetes.protobuf
diff --git a/cmd/kubeadm/app/util/config/testdata/defaulting/controlplane/defaulted_non_linux.yaml b/cmd/kubeadm/app/util/config/testdata/defaulting/controlplane/defaulted_non_linux.yaml
index c3124af1f7..5e4833c3ec 100644
--- a/cmd/kubeadm/app/util/config/testdata/defaulting/controlplane/defaulted_non_linux.yaml
+++ b/cmd/kubeadm/app/util/config/testdata/defaulting/controlplane/defaulted_non_linux.yaml
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ cgroupsPerQOS: true
 clusterDNS:
 - 10.192.0.10
 clusterDomain: cluster.global
-configMapAndSecretChangeDetectionStrategy: Watch
+configMapAndSecretChangeDetectionStrategy: Cache
 containerLogMaxFiles: 5
 containerLogMaxSize: 10Mi
 contentType: application/vnd.kubernetes.protobuf
diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/apis/config/v1beta1/defaults.go b/pkg/kubelet/apis/config/v1beta1/defaults.go
index 8c1568e91e..451169f289 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/apis/config/v1beta1/defaults.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/apis/config/v1beta1/defaults.go
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ func SetDefaults_KubeletConfiguration(obj *kubeletconfigv1beta1.KubeletConfigura
 		obj.ContainerLogMaxFiles = utilpointer.Int32Ptr(5)
 	}
 	if obj.ConfigMapAndSecretChangeDetectionStrategy == "" {
-		obj.ConfigMapAndSecretChangeDetectionStrategy = kubeletconfigv1beta1.WatchChangeDetectionStrategy
+		obj.ConfigMapAndSecretChangeDetectionStrategy = kubeletconfigv1beta1.TTLCacheChangeDetectionStrategy
 	}
 	if obj.EnforceNodeAllocatable == nil {
 		obj.EnforceNodeAllocatable = DefaultNodeAllocatableEnforcement