There is no shortage of metrics that illustrate the rapid rise of Kubernetes as the application platform of choice for many enterprises. The number of monthly Google searches doubled between 2021 and 2023. Meanwhile, the number of downloads of the Kubernetes client library for Python increased by 1,714% between 2019 and 2023. The number of operator questions on the Stack Exchange Server Fault support forum increased by 40% year over year, and the number of publicly accessible Kubernetes clusters also increased by 40% over the same timeframe.