centos7 – Update NIC driver for CentOS 7.5 server

I got a physical server which runs CentOS 7.5 in production environment and the Intel X710 NIC is utilized.

Recently, the NIC driver version is planned to be updated so I’d like to understand the relationship between CentOS and the driver package.

I did notice that the Windows environment provides simple way to update hardware components’ driver through the “device manager” or windows update.

But I’m not sure what are the suggested methods to achieve the NIC driver update on CentOS 7.5.

Is it always recommended to acquire the driver from server vendor if the vendor do provide specific driver for the specific OS?

Or maybe update through CentOS official channels will be the better solution?

I don’t know much about the world of linux server, can someone give me advise please?

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