Join the whole lifecycle into one record.
- Catalog, order, and subscription kept on one commercial thread.
- Provisioning and access metadata attached to the instance.
- Audit and recovery context that survives every state change.
The harbor
BayStore sells products as named, recoverable instances.
It is not a general PaaS. It is the commercial and operational system around named products that need isolated customer deployments.
Push infrastructure into the buyer's lap.
- Clusters, node pools, and queue topology as buyer concerns.
- Provider webhooks and internal runtime details on the offer.
- Hidden state that forces a buyer to read operational logs.
PrincipleCommercial truth Proof discipline Operator clarity
Explicit state is the product backbone.
Every BayStore surface uses the same lifecycle language so sales, customers, support, and operators can reason about the same instance without translating between hidden systems.
The order and instance stay joined.
Plan, product, customer, access metadata, lifecycle state, and recovery context are treated as one buyer-visible record.
No invented production claims.
BayStore publishes what the current surface can prove and keeps payment, auth, runtime, and legal approval as separate launch dependencies.
Actions are recorded before mutation is claimed.
The operator console can record intent and audit context without pretending production runtime automation is already complete.
Boundaries
What BayStore is and is not.
| BayStore is | BayStore is not |
|---|---|
| A commercial surface for named product instances. | A generic PaaS or raw infrastructure marketplace. |
| A lifecycle language that connects buyers, support, and operators. | A substitute for approved production auth, payment, runtime, or legal commitments. |
| A static marketing and evaluation surface with clear deployment checks. | A claim that production billing or runtime mutation is already live. |