[nyolfen]

cannot praise talos highly enough, it makes so much annoying crap easy

[indigodaddy]

No shell in the OS? Seems insane but interesting at the same time..

[abound]

Practically, its not a problem as you can always create a privileged container and mount the root filesystem into it. I have an alias I use for exactly such things.

[angio]

kubectl-node-shell is also pretty good to do that automatically.

https://github.com/kvaps/kubectl-node-shell