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control plane components (kube-apiserver, kube-scheduler, kube-controller-manager,
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cloud-controller-manager) for the newest supported minor version.
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This is valuable for end users as control plane upgrade will be a little faster than node upgrade, which are almost always going to be the longer with running workloads.
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Some cluster operators avoid node maintenance and especially changes to node
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behavior, because nodes are where the workloads run. For minor version upgrades
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to a kubelet, the supported process includes draining that node, and hence
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disruption to any Pods that had been executing there. For Kubernetes end users
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with very long running workloads, and where Pods should stay running wherever
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possible, reducing the time lost to node maintenance is a benefit.
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The Kubernetes yearly support period already made annual upgrades possible. Users can
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upgrade to the latest patch versions to pick up security fixes and do 3 sequential

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