Infrastructure-as-Code is broken by design—formae wants to start over
Platform Engineering Labs has unveiled “formae,” a new open-source infrastructure-as-code platform designed to fix the inefficiencies plaguing existing IaC tools. The company says formae codifies and tracks every resource and change across cloud environments, creating a single source of truth to eliminate drift and configuration errors. Unlike traditional tools tied to static files, formae uses agent-based automation for continuous discovery and state management.
Mike Wheatley write for SiliconANGLE
With the launch of formae, Platform Engineering thinks it can solve these problems. Whereas existing IaC tools rely on brittle state files and require endless babysitting, formae accelerates automation. When installed, it sets about discovering and codifying an organization’s entire cloud environment, covering every application and service, no matter where it lives, creating a single source of unified truth. It tracks every resource and every change to the underlying code.
It’s open-source and available under a temporary Functional Source License, with plans to adopt a more permissive license after two years.