I've seen this statement many times... But does Kubernetes run on hardware natively? Of course not. Does Kubernetes not use containers, which in turn use some k

I've seen this statement many times... But does Kubernetes run on hardware natively? Of course not. Does Kubernetes not use containers, which in turn use some kind of linux bootfs? Is Linux not more important than ever, since we now put Kubernetes into OpenStack to spawn thousands of containers..? "Kubernetes is the new $X" generates a lot of clicks I guess...