formae apply --mode reconcile --team payments --env staging.
Deploy. A developer supplies the flags and applies; reconcile brings their
stack into being exactly as the forma and their choices describe it:
Common patterns
A self-service database
An AWS infrastructure pattern, deployed with formae.
Instead of a fixed forma, expose a parameterized database that developers deploy
with a few flags. This is the platform-engineering pattern: you write one forma
that maps a small vocabulary (a team, an environment, a size) to a
production-ready RDS instance with your standards baked in (encryption, multi-AZ,
deletion protection), and developers run
The forma, the property interface, and the standards it enforces are covered in
Build self-service infrastructure.