Adoption of microservices-based application architecture and the Kubernetes container scheduling and orchestration platform continues to increase at an annual pace of approximately 50%. Over the past six months, the number of software engineers using Kubernetes (Python) software libraries grew by 110%, while the number of DevOps teams making the Kubernetes plugin part of their release pipeline increased by 27% over the same timeframe. The fact that 98% of site reliability engineers require Kubernetes expertise in 2021 further underlines the status of Kubernetes as the standard platform for application transformation.