Kubernetes is a deployment strategy. It should be orthogonal to microservices.

I'll delete the comment if I was unnecessarily cruel or missed the sarcasm. It was not intentional. But it is important to understand that you want to think of persistence and deployment coupling as independently of your microservices strategy as possible. The vast majority of problems we see with people implementing microservices is people carrying baggage over from some previous project or pet technology. K8S's great. It's just not relevant here.