Platform Engineering Labs introduces formae, a groundbreaking open-source infrastructure-as-code (IaC) platform that redefines how organisations tackle modern infrastructure challenges at scale.
“It is the first platform that starts from reality, not from an idealised plan. It accepts even the messiest truth of any cloud environment and provides a safe, reliable way to evolve it. It’s time to sunset Terraform and move forward,” Pavlo Baron, co-founder and CEO of Platform Engineering Labs, said.
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formae claims to deliver the following core capabilities:
- Full Infrastructure-as-Code – Through persisted or ephemeral code artefacts called “formas”, single resources or entire infrastructure stacks can be extracted, applied, or destroyed at any granularity.
- Automatic codification claims to transform infrastructure resources into versioned, declarative code.
- Automatic discovery and synchronisation - it can continuously map every running resource across an entire cloud estate.
- Patch-based changes with minimal blast radius – formae enable precise, incremental updates that reduce risk and improve reliability
- No explicit state management - State is reality itself, versioned in code and continually updated
- Schema-safe and declarative – it helps ensure the consistency and predictability of environments, without unnecessary human error and labour.
- Agent-based - Change and state management are decoupled from clients to ensure careful, asynchronous state convergence towards the declared target state.
- Extensible and open - A future foundation for a rich ecosystem of open-source and commercial plugins, integrations, and enterprise extensions
Marc Schnitzius, Platform Engineering lead at codecentric, said: “While this is a crucial pattern, formae doesn’t just move complexity from dev to ops — it truly helps achieve reduced cognitive load for both developers and operations teams by abstracting the complexity on both sides in modern cloud-native environments.”
