A Groundbreaking
Open Source
Infrastructure-as-Code
Platform
Built for the Future
Are you tired of terraforming?
Break out to where
the grass is green!
Where infrastructure work is fun again
Where everything is under control
Features
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
formae 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.
What people say about it
Marc Schnitzius, Platform Engineering Lead at codecentric
"formae is designed for developers and platform engineers from the ground up. 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."
Michael Mueller, CTO re:cinq
"Every enterprise tries to do Platform Engineering and at the end only abstract infrastructure with Backstage, then fights maintaining it. Platform Engineering Labs solved this differently with native IaC abstraction that just works. No portal to build, no catalogs to sync. Exactly what our customers need."
Harry Brumleve, Founder of strategic technology firm Thoughtful Software, F250 Executive, and early stage advisor
"formae is a significant evolutionary leap forward in both devops and software development. 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."
Stefan Staudenmeyer, Retail tech lead & infrastructure practitioner
„The best time to sunset Terraform was 5 years ago, the second best time is now. Significant time was invested into making the situation better for teams dealing with infrastructure, and formae is approaching the problem in a way that makes it super convenient for teams to get started, yet stay in control.“
Anthony Moreno, Seasoned On-Call Veteran. Led large global transformations and loves open-source tools that make real-world infrastructure management simple, reliable, and human.
"formae keeps infra management simple. It’s super easy to get started with, and you don’t need to wrestle with overly complex state management like other IaC tools. What I love most is how it adapts to reality instead of pretending the world is perfect. It picks up changes made outside the tool, merges them cleanly, and keeps your infrastructure code as the actual source of truth. That’s a big deal when you're debugging weird issues or need to understand what’s really running at 3am. As someone who’s often spinning up and tearing down environments for testing and investigation, formae can be a lifesaver. It enables me to make safe, scoped changes fast without worrying about blowing up the rest of my ecosystem."
Alexander Heusingfeld, Vice President Tech Strategy @ Vorwerk Group
"What I saw from the team was a perfect analysis and on point to the problems we‘ll have in platform engineering in the upcoming months and years - if we don’t change. Therefore I couldn’t be more excited to apply in practice what the team just launched!"
Mirco Kater, Information Security Officer at Ona
"I really like that Platform Engineering Labs is rebooting the space that is totally important for the modern IT, but is very prone to error and deprived of innovation for decades."