[v4.18] branch should pin to kubernetes 31.*.* (#2332)

Author: dbasunag

pyproject.toml

@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ dependencies = [
   "colorlog>=6.8.2",
   "deepdiff>=8.0.1",
   "jinja2>=3.1.4",
-  "kubernetes>=31.0.0",
+  "kubernetes~=31.0.0",
   "packaging>=24.1",
   "pyhelper-utils>=0.0.42",
   "pytest-cov>=6.0.0",