diff --git a/content/en/docs/concepts/overview/components.md b/content/en/docs/concepts/overview/components.md
index fb3997b283..60433f63e5 100644
--- a/content/en/docs/concepts/overview/components.md
+++ b/content/en/docs/concepts/overview/components.md
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Control plane components can be run on any machine in the cluster. However,
 for simplicity, set up scripts typically start all control plane components on
 the same machine, and do not run user containers on this machine. See
 [Creating Highly Available clusters with kubeadm](/docs/setup/production-environment/tools/kubeadm/high-availability/)
-for an example control plane setup that runs across multiple VMs.
+for an example control plane setup that runs across multiple machines.
 
 ### kube-apiserver