Although a pattern I commonly see these days with a lot of OSS projects is that oftentimes they provide a docker-compose.yaml even though no one at any reasonable scale is running Docker Compose in production. This is simply because Kubernetes setups are complicated, weighty, and heterogenous, and often not running on your local machine and Docker Compose is a great way to do a hello world style demo of your container-orchestrated app (because everyone still uses Docker Desktop).