I hope that this chapter has given you an idea about the next steps you can take in your container journey. One of the things I have found is that while it is easy to simply use these services, you get a lot more out of it by becoming a part of the large, friendly, and welcoming communities of developers and other users, who are just like you, and have sprung up around the various software and projects.
This sense of community and collaboration has been further strengthened by the formation of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. This has brought together large enterprises who, until just a few years ago, wouldn't have thought about collaborating in public with other enterprises who have been seen as their competitors on large-scale projects.
