| Formae Launched As Terraform Alternative |
| Written by Kay Ewbank | |||
| Wednesday, 22 October 2025 | |||
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Platform Engineering Labs has launched formae, an open-source Infrastructure as Code platform built to replace state-driven systems like Terraform. The developers say that unlike traditional tools that depend on manual state management, formae automatically discovers and codifies every resource across your cloud estate, no matter how it was created. formae produces versioned, declarative code that the developers say enables the safe, incremental evolution of any infrastructure.
Because formae removes explicit state files and introduces an agent-based, asynchronous convergence model, the developers say it eliminates the brittleness and manual babysitting necessary to keep existing legacy tools working. formae is open source, and is an infrastructure-as-code (IaC) platform. The developers say it differs from traditional IaC platforms because unlike tools that rely on brittle state files and manual babysitting, formae automatically discovers and codifies your organization's entire environment. Every change is reflected in code and every resource is tracked.
This gets away from the problems caused by platform engineering tools that were built for single operators and smaller systems, and have not kept pace with modern distributed environments, meaning engineers have to spend time fixing outages and stitching integrations. Pavlo Baron, co-founder and CEO of Platform Engineering Labs, described formae as: "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 provides full Infrastructure-as-Code, so 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". It offers automatic codification, transforming every infrastructure resource and every change into versioned, declarative code, eliminating infrastructure and state drift. Once the infrastructure is mapped, formae continues to continuously map every running resource across the user's entire cloud estate. When infrastructure modifications result in the need to make changes, formae enables precise, incremental updates to reduce risk and improve reliability. There's no explicit state management, and formae is schema-safe and declarative. The software is agent-based, and change and state management is decoupled from the clients. It is also extensible, and the developers hope this will lead to an ecosystem of open-source and commercial plugins, integrations, and enterprise extensions. It is released under the FSL license. 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 means to manage infrastructure without fear of hidden drift, brittle state, or unrecoverable outages. formae is available today on Github. The project is open for contributions, with community discussions hosted on Discord.
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