Requesting landing zones or data products
As discussed in the previous section, this functionality may not be included as part of the portal depending on the data mesh design that you have adopted and the needs of the company. If new projects are rare and experimentation is also not a requirement for your company, then most of the landing zone creation work can be done upfront using pipelines and ARM templates. But if your industry is competitive with a constant need for innovating analytics to keep yourself ahead of the curve, then there will be a need for creating landing zones on the fly. In this case, requesting landing zones needs to be an important feature on the portal.
In order to build a frictionless functionality to request landing zones, it’s critical that your backend infrastructure and automation to create landing zones are in order. Assuming that a new data product request is a new landing zone, the following needs to be ready before you can start building this...
