By and large, you can just upgrade the kernel and nothing will break. It's one of the biggest things kernel developers worry over, in fact. The reason, I thin

By and large, you can just upgrade the kernel and nothing will break. It's one of the biggest things kernel developers worry over, in fact. The reason, I think, K8s people might do this is that they often do not have the access, experience, or skills to do platform upgrades. It's easier to just futz around on the layer they feel they understand well; the world of containers.