Building a Self-Service Portal for Common Data Mesh Operations
In Chapter 6, we briefly looked at a self-service portal for requesting landing zones. It highlighted the need for automating the deployment and maintenance of landing zones. However, a central data mesh portal can be more than just requesting for landing zones. In fact, in some situations, a landing zone request feature may not even be required. The data mesh portal can serve many other purposes, hosting pipeline templates, data catalog search, requesting access, and monitoring dashboards. It can become the face of your data mesh and create a pull for teams to collaborate on.
In this chapter, we will learn how to build a data mesh portal, as well as all the typical functionality it must implement, and the components and the architecture required for building it.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Why do we need a self-service portal?
- Gathering requirements for the self-service portal...
