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title: Next steps
url: /docs/iac/get-started/kubernetes/next-steps/
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Congrats! You've deployed your first project to Kubernetes with Pulumi. Here are some next steps, depending on your learning style.

## Video Tutorial

Take a deeper look at Pulumi with Kubernetes with this video tutorial.

[Kubernetes in ~10 minutes →](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P8JLgAc5QI)

## Try Pulumi ESC (Environments, Secrets, and Configuration)

[Pulumi ESC](/docs/esc/) is a centralized secrets management and orchestration service. It introduces the concepts of _environments_ --- managed collections of static and dynamic settings that you can use to configure any project, stack, application, or service, including with short-lived cloud credentials through OpenID Connect.

With Pulumi ESC you can:

- **Stop secret sprawl.** Pull and sync configuration and secrets with any secrets store – including HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, GCP Secret Manager, 1Password, and more – and consume in any application, tool, or CI/CD platform.
- **Trust (and prove) your secrets are secure.** Every environment can be locked down with role-based access controls (RBAC) and versioned with all changes fully logged for auditing.
- **Ditch `.env` files.** No more storing secrets in plaintext on dev computers. Developers can easily access secrets via CLI, API, Kubernetes operator, the Pulumi Cloud UI, and in-code with Typescript/Javascript, Python, and Go SDKs.

[Learn more about Pulumi ESC →](/docs/esc/get-started)

## Learn Pulumi

Dive into Learn Pulumi for a comprehensive walkthrough of key Pulumi concepts in the context of a real-life application.

[Learn Pulumi Fundamentals →](/learn/pulumi-fundamentals)

## Launch a new project with a template

Easily deploy the most common cloud architectures, from [static websites](/templates/static-website/) to [serverless applications](/templates/serverless-application/), [virtual machines](/templates/virtual-machine/), [container services](/templates/container-service/), and [Kubernetes clusters](/templates/kubernetes/).

[Browse templates →](/templates/)

## Dive into the docs

Read more about Pulumi's architecture and foundational concepts in depth, including [projects](/docs/concepts/projects/), [stacks](/docs/concepts/stack/), [configuration](/docs/concepts/config/), [secrets](/docs/concepts/secrets/), [resources](/docs/concepts/resources/), [state](/docs/concepts/state/), and more.

[Read the docs →](/docs/concepts/)

## Blog Posts

Read through the latest blog posts about using Pulumi with Kubernetes.

[Read the Pulumi Blog →](/blog/tag/kubernetes)