Updates and maintenance

The Prometheus Operator's community of maintainers is very active. With over 400 contributors to date (https://github.com/prometheus-operator/prometheus-operator/graphs/contributors), its code base remains fresh through ongoing maintenance. This allows the Prometheus Operator to publish regular releases on its GitHub Releases page (https://github.com/prometheus-operator/prometheus-operator/releases). As with any application, releasing regular updates promotes confidence in potential users by demonstrating an active investment in the project's support by its owners. In Kubernetes projects, such as Operators, this is even more important due to the relatively fast-paced and highly fluctuant developments in the underlying Kubernetes platform. Otherwise, with the current Kubernetes deprecation policy, an Operator might become unusable in new clusters in as little as a year (see Chapter 8, Preparing for Ongoing Maintenance of Your Operator).

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