diff --git a/network.go b/network.go
index 73c38504..8e1cfb62 100644
--- a/network.go
+++ b/network.go
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ package firecracker
 
 import (
 	"context"
+	"fmt"
 	"net"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
@@ -267,6 +268,11 @@ type CNIConfiguration struct {
 	// either provide the netNSPath via the Jailer config or allow the
 	// netns path to be autogenerated by us.
 	netNSPath string
+
+	// Force allows to overwrite default behavior of the pre existing network deletion
+	// mostly created for different types of CNI plugins which are not expecting fail on that step.
+	// In case if Force was set to `True` error will be still logged, but new new network will be created anyway.
+	Force bool
 }
 
 func (cniConf CNIConfiguration) validate() error {
@@ -326,13 +332,18 @@ func (cniConf CNIConfiguration) invokeCNI(ctx context.Context, logger *log.Entry
 	// well-behaved CNI plugins should treat this as a no-op without returning an error
 	// (resulting also in a nil error here).
 	// We can be reasonably sure any previous VM that was using this network is gone due
-	// to earlier validation that the VM's socket path does not already exist.
+	// to earlier validation that the VM's socket path does not already exists.
 	err = delNetworkFunc()
 	if err != nil {
-		// something actually went wrong deleting the network, return an error so we don't
-		// try to create a new network on top of a possibly half-deleted previous one.
-		return nil, errors.Wrapf(err,
-			"failed to delete pre-existing CNI network %+v", cniConf), cleanupFuncs
+		errMsg := fmt.Sprintf("failed to delete pre-existing CNI network %+v", cniConf)
+		// We are checking Force parameter to choose, should we fail with error
+		// or continue execution with just logging error
+		if !cniConf.Force {
+			// something actually went wrong deleting the network, return an error and Force wasn't used so we don't
+			// try to create a new network on top of a possibly half-deleted previous one.
+			return nil, errors.Wrap(err, errMsg), cleanupFuncs
+		}
+		logger.Error(err, errMsg)
 	}
 
 	// Append cleanup of the network list before calling AddNetworkList to handle