Red Hat's OpenShift and Couchbase's Autonomous Operator have joined forces to address the challenge of running stateful applications, such as databases, on Kubernetes, historically seen as risky due to storage management complexities. With the introduction of Persistent Volumes (PVs), Kubernetes improved its ability to handle storage, enabling databases to run more reliably on OpenShift. Couchbase's adoption and investment in the Operator Framework have positioned it as a leader in managing NoSQL databases on OpenShift, leveraging the Couchbase Autonomous Operator for automated cluster operations. The Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM) has enhanced the management and deployment of Operators, increasing developer productivity by streamlining installation and updates. Couchbase, designed with a cloud-native architecture, offers multi-dimensional scaling and features like auto-sharding, which align with OpenShift's capabilities, allowing it to handle web-scale workloads effectively. The recently launched Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.0 Beta further integrates with OpenShift environments to enhance monitoring and operational efficiency, while its Cross Data Center Replication (XDCR) feature supports multi and hybrid cloud workloads, promising future developments in this area.