Your AI-built application works locally. A customer can click through the screens, and the API returns the right result. The next step is giving that product a dependable place to run, a way to recognize customers, durable data, and a way to investigate failures after launch.
Forte brings those capabilities into the same platform. Deploy the backend as a Service and the frontend as a Website, configure customer authentication, connect a database, and add payments when you need them. Build history, health checks, and request diagnostics come with the hosting workflow. Your next development session can focus on the customer experience instead of assembling the infrastructure around it.
Give your prototype a production home
Consider an AI-built client portal: customers sign in, save project records, and pay for access. On Forte, start with a Sandbox project and connect the application's GitHub repository. Deploy the API and website, then exercise the portal through their generated HTTPS addresses.
For supported applications, Smart builds detect the build configuration. Forte handles the container build, managed ingress, TLS, and deployment health checks. Later pushes to the configured branch run through the same release workflow. You get a repeatable route from a code change to a running product, with evidence to inspect when a release fails.
| The portal needs | What you get with Forte | What you implement |
|---|---|---|
| An API and frontend customers can reach | Service and Website hosting, HTTPS, deployment history | Application code and runtime configuration |
| Customer sign-in | Supported sign-in methods, verification, sessions, MFA, gateway validation | The sign-in experience and tenant permissions |
| Persistent project records | Connected managed databases within documented limits | Schema, queries, and migrations |
| Paid access | Stripe-backed payments and payment events to Services | Plans and entitlement decisions |
| Answers when a request fails | Request status, timing, and correlated application logs | Useful log messages carrying the request ID |
The following checks follow that portal into production. They show where Forte removes infrastructure work and where the application still needs a deliberate decision.
Define what you are releasing
Write down the components that must work together: frontend, API, background work, database, identity provider, payment provider, email or SMS, and external APIs. For each component, identify its owner, production configuration, failure behavior, and recovery path.
Then test the actual production-shaped path. A preview URL that renders a homepage does not verify customer sign-in, durable data, payment events, or deployment recovery.
Add customer identity without operating a session store
Enable the sign-in methods your portal needs in Forte. Verification, password policies, sessions, and MFA use the platform's documented lifecycle, and the gateway validates sessions on protected Service routes. A backend redeploy does not require your team to build a shared session store.
For the portal, the application work is deciding which customer owns each project record. Authentication establishes who sent the request; the resource query must also check that customer's tenant or ownership.
Run a two-user boundary test:
- Create users in two different customer accounts.
- Capture a valid resource identifier from the first account.
- Request that resource while signed in as the second user.
- Verify the API rejects access without revealing the resource's contents.
- Repeat the test for update, export, and delete operations.
Do not rely on a hidden button or a client-side route guard. Enforce the tenant and resource decision in the server operation that reads or mutates the data.
Remove secrets from source control
Load production credentials from runtime configuration and restrict who can change them. If a credential was committed previously, moving it to an environment variable does not erase the Git history. Revoke and replace it, then decide whether history rewriting is necessary for the repository and its forks.
Review build behavior too. Forte makes ordinary environment variables available as build arguments, while secrets are runtime-only. A dependency that requires a private credential during a build needs a different, explicitly supported path; do not turn the credential into a non-secret variable to make a build pass.
Make sessions survive process changes
Restart the application and verify existing sessions behave as intended. If the service runs more than one instance, send requests across instances and confirm session validation does not depend on memory in one process.
Forte-managed user sessions are stored outside the customer Service and validated at the gateway. The application receives the authenticated context after validation. This removes session storage from the application, but does not remove the application's authorization checks.
Also test logout, expiration, renewal, password reset, contact verification, and the pending state created by MFA. A session lifecycle has more states than “logged in” and “logged out.”
Prove that data is durable and recoverable
Deploy a new application version and confirm customer data remains available. Test backup recovery rather than treating the existence of a backup setting as proof of recovery. Record who can request or perform a restore, the expected data-loss window, and what the application does while data is unavailable.
Forte managed databases are currently Open Beta. They provide encrypted connections, daily backups, connection controls, and monitoring within documented limits. Evaluate those limits and the support-assisted restore process against the workload before adopting them.
Ship the next change through a managed release workflow
Once the portal is deployed, the next AI-assisted change goes through Forte's build and health-check workflow too. You can inspect the selected commit and deployment output instead of reconstructing a custom pipeline. Create a safe test branch that fails the configured health check and inspect the failed stage. Verify that the previously healthy application remains the version customers reach when a prior revision is eligible for rollback.
A platform can manage the build, rollout, health check, and eligible rollback. It cannot make an incompatible database migration reversible. Use backward-compatible schema changes, decide when old code may stop reading the schema, and keep data migration recovery separate from container rollback.
Test capacity and abuse boundaries
Measure the slowest important route under concurrent use. Check database connection pools, third-party rate limits, memory, timeouts, and queue behavior. Configure capacity based on observed work instead of assuming autoscaling repairs every bottleneck.
Provisioned Forte Service instances stay available for traffic. Additional capacity still has to start when demand grows, so test the application's response to a sudden increase. Protect costly endpoints with application-level quotas and authorization even when network and gateway protections are present.
Follow a customer failure back to the application
Suppose saving a project returns a 500. Forte gives you a Requests view on the Service: locate the failed call, inspect its status and latency, and read the associated application output. Include Forte's X-Request-Id in your logs so that association stays precise under concurrent traffic. This gives you concrete evidence to take back into the next coding session, including when you use an AI assistant to investigate the code.
Decide whether live request-body capture is appropriate for the data you handle. It is off by default for live Forte projects. Logs and captured bodies are operational data and need the same care as the application records they may describe.
Assign the remaining responsibilities
| Area | Forte can operate | Your team still owns |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Build workflow, artifact, rollout, health checks, eligible rollback | Working code, dependency compatibility, safe schema changes |
| Identity | Verification, sessions, passwords, MFA, gateway validation | Tenant and resource authorization, application roles |
| Runtime | Provisioned instances, ingress, TLS, scaling controls | Capacity choice, timeouts, dependency behavior |
| Data | Managed database infrastructure within documented limits | Schema, queries, retention, recovery requirements |
| Diagnostics | Request records, metrics, application-log ingestion | Useful and safe logs, incident decisions, downstream tracing |
The release is ready when each important boundary has a named test and owner. Keep the checklist with the application and rerun it when architecture or customer requirements change.
Start with the Forte quickstart, then follow the paid-product walkthrough to connect hosting, customer identity, data, and a sandbox payment. You finish with a product you can update and investigate through the same platform.