Where to Go from Here

Congratulations on making it this far in your journey toward mastering big data on Kubernetes! By now, you’ve gained a solid understanding of the core concepts and technologies involved in running big data workloads on Kubernetes. However, as with any complex system, there’s always more to learn and explore.

In this chapter, we’ll guide you through the next steps in your development journey, covering some of the most important topics and technologies you should focus on as you move toward production-ready big data deployments on Kubernetes. We’ll discuss crucial aspects such as monitoring, service meshes, security, automated scalability, GitOps, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) for Kubernetes.

For each topic, we’ll provide you with an overview and introduce you to the relevant technologies and tools, giving you a solid foundation to build upon. This will enable you to dive deeper into the areas that...