Bases

A Base is a variant of a Component that is not meant to be deployed. It exists to be cloned into other variants. A base contains the complete configuration for the component, but deployment-specific values are typically left as placeholders to be replaced in the downstream variants. A base has no Target attached: there is nothing live to diff it against or apply it to.

A component can have multiple bases, themselves related as variants. For example, a prod base and a non-prod base may be cloned from a common root base, each capturing the policies of its environment class, with deployments cloned from those.