Image credit to AB Electrical & Communications Ltd. Manually managing deployments to staging and development environments eats up developer and operations time, especially when it is repeated multiple times during a sprint. Automating as much of the operational workload as possible allows developers to iterate faster and get better feedback from stakeholders by demonstrating in-progress work quicker, without having to delay user acceptance testing until a batch of work is complete. By using Kubernetes to automate deployments of new features, we can expose new demos faster than ever and decide if a feature is coming together the way we expect.