Tell that to Google. Their "regular" (recommended) release channel in their managed Kubernetes Engine product regularly falls off the back of the supported range, while their "rapid" channel barely stays within it.
Re:Kubernetes 1.19
by alec_kendall on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @05:23PM
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I’d like to see those two teams eat lunch together
I was preparing to say "Tell that to GCP!" :)
In their defense it's one of the services that you fire and forget. It seems to just work.
well, gcloud gke regular is still on 1.16.
https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/release/version-skew-policy...