Enable developer self-service

The ideal velocity for application developers is that they get the infrastructure they need, when they need it, without human gatekeepers. This known as developer self-service.

To achieve developer self-service, application developers need:

• A catalog of patterns to choose from
• A way to configure a pattern
• A way to deploy the pattern
• A way to monitor the pattern instance
• A way to update or delete the pattern instance

As you can see, developer self-service is highly valuable, but also hard to get right.