Platform Engineering Labs is updating its open-source Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) platform, formae, to streamline the management of complex ecosystems operating on top of Kubernetes and multi-cloud.
By adding native Helm integration and a Public Hub for plugins to the release, the company completes its unified "system of record" that automatically codifies infrastructure changes, allowing platform teams to scale their cloud-native footprints with complete safety and minimal manual effort, according to the company.
Users can now manage vanilla Kubernetes (k8s) as well as its cloud flavors, such as EKS and AKS, directly through formae. The integration includes native support for Helm charts, allowing teams to reuse their existing infrastructure and effortlessly integrate it into formae.
"k8s was the last major integration we needed to fully catch up with incumbents decades older than us," said Pavlo Baron, co-founder and CEO of Platform Engineering Labs. "We put significant thought and innovation into our Kubernetes support, making it fully consistent with the rest of formae: go from knowing what to change in infrastructure to actually changing it in no time—without unnecessary effort and with complete safety."
Teams can use any tools alongside formae to manage their k8s clusters, while formae automatically handles versioning and codifies every change, no matter which tool made it. This model is entirely new in the k8s management space and eliminates many daily headaches, the company said.
This release also delivers what builders have been waiting for since the formae Plugin SDK launched in January: a place to share and discover plugins. The new Public Hub provides a structured environment to publish and install formae plugins, supported by an integrated build and test environment to ensure reliability and compatibility.
Together with the Public Hub comes a much simpler way to install and manage plugins. Unlike other IaC tools like Terraform, which bind plugin installation to individual projects and environments by default, formae avoids this brittle model, the company said.
formae already requires no resource migration for teams coming from tools like Terraform, as it automatically discovers resources directly from the existing infrastructure.
It's also designed to integrate with other configuration sources and databases.
formae is available now on GitHub under the FSL license. Comprehensive documentation is online, for users and builders.
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