"The platform tackles problems familiar to many platform engineering teams: sprawling cloud estates, drift between code and live environments, and fragile toolchains. According to Pavlo Baron, co-founder and CEO of Platform Engineering Labs, the tool emerged from direct experience with these challenges: We built formae out of our own pain. 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."
"There are two modes of operation for formae. Firstly there is a 'reconcile' mode which aligns the desired environment state with what actually exists in production, and secondly 'patch' mode which allows operators to apply incremental changes. The platform eliminates explicit state file management by treating reality itself as the state, versioned in code. Changes are managed through an agent-based architecture that decouples state management from clients."
formae is an open-source infrastructure-as-code platform released on 22 October 2025. The platform addresses sprawling cloud estates, drift between code and live environments, and fragile toolchains. It operates in two modes: reconcile, which aligns desired environment state with production, and patch, which applies incremental changes. formae treats reality as the state, versioning running infrastructure in code and eliminating explicit state file management. An agent-based architecture decouples state management from clients. Automatic discovery and codification map every running resource across cloud estates regardless of how resources were originally created.
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