formae empowers engineers to automate, unify, and evolve infrastructure at scale—Without the usual complexity or risk
NEW YORK, Oct. 22, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Platform Engineering Labs today announced the launch of formae, an open source infrastructure-as-code (IaC) platform designed to address fundamental insufficiencies of tools like Terraform. formae is the first major innovation in IaC in nearly a decade, built from the ground up to solve modern infrastructure challenges at scale.
Today's platform teams face overwhelming complexity from sprawling cloud estates, drift between code and live environments, and the strain of fragile toolchains. Platform engineering still provides scalability through abstraction and reusable services, but its tools, built for single operators and smaller systems, have not kept pace with modern distributed environments. As a result, engineers spend more time fixing outages and stitching integrations than building resilient systems. formae changes that model entirely.
Unlike tools that rely on brittle state files and endless manual babysitting, formae automatically discovers and codifies an organization's entire environment, whatever its origin, into a single, unified source of truth. Every change is versioned code, every resource is tracked, and every engineer can contribute with confidence.
"We built formae out of our own pain," said Pavlo Baron, co-founder and CEO of Platform Engineering Labs. "It is the first platform that starts from reality, not from an idealized 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."
formae delivers the following core capabilities that set it apart from other IaC offerings:
- Full Infrastructure-as-Code - engineers work with formae exclusively through code. Single resources or whole infrastructure stacks can be extracted, applied or destroyed in any granularity using persisted or ephemeral code artefacts called "formas."
- Automatic codification - formae transforms every infrastructure resource and every change into versioned, declarative code, eliminating infrastructure and state drift.
- Automatic discovery and synchronization - it continuously maps every running resource across your entire cloud estate, regardless of how it was created or modified.
- Patch-based changes with minimal blast radius – formae enables precise, incremental updates that reduce risk and improve reliability during infrastructure modifications.
- No explicit state management - State is reality itself, versioned in code and always up-to-date.
- Schema-safe and declarative - formae ensures environments are consistent and predictable, without unnecessary human error and labor.
- Agent-based - Change and state management is decoupled from the clients, allowing careful, asynchronous state convergence towards declared target state
- Extensible and open - A future foundation for a rich ecosystem of open-source and commercial plugins, integrations, and enterprise extensions
By unifying all resources, whether created via patches with minimal blast radius, Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi, ClickOps, or legacy scripts, formae provides platform teams with the ultimate benefit of managing infrastructure without fear of hidden drift, brittle state, or unrecoverable outages and is achieved entirely through what they love - code.
"formae is designed for developers and platform engineers from the ground up," said Marc Schnitzius, Platform Engineering Lead at codecentric. "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."
formae is released under the FSL license, ensuring immediate accessibility and full safety for the adopters, while enabling a sustainable commercial model. The open source release encourages community contributions, experimentation, and adoption at any budget level.
"formae is a significant evolutionary leap forward in both devops and software development," said Harry Brumleve, Founder of strategic technology firm Thoughtful Software, Fortune 250 Executive, and early stage advisor. "It represents a shift in thinking as fundamental as source control, as practical as package management, and as vital as Observability. formae's impact will extend beyond improving the lives of DevOps and Engineering teams to creating lasting and reliable value for businesses and their customers."
formae is available today on Github. The project is open for contributions, with community discussions hosted on Discord. For more information about Platform Engineering Labs and formae, visit https://platform.engineering. Join the movement to sunset outdated tools and embrace a safer, smarter future.
About Platform Engineering Labs
Platform Engineering Labs develops tools for platform teams, operations engineers, SREs, and infrastructure architects. Its mission is to eliminate unnecessary toil, reduce human error, and enable every engineer to confidently contribute within platform engineering. With formae, Platform Engineering Labs provides the first true innovation in IaC in nearly a decade, offering a foundation for the next generation of cloud operations.
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