Understanding Kubernetes Beyond Pods and Deployments

I have been learning more about Kubernetes recently, and one thing that helped me understand it better is that Kubernetes is not just about running containers. At first, I was mostly thinking like this: Application -> Docker image -> Pod -> Deployment But Kubernetes is more about defining what state you want your system to be in. For example, we can say: I want 3 instances of my application I want this application to be accessible through a service I want some configs and secrets available