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Formae now supports Kubernetes, Helm, .tfvars and a public plugin hub

by discountelf·May 20, 2026·9 points·0 comments
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AI Analysis

●●●BangerZero to OneBold Bet

Stateless IaC that absorbs click-ops changes instead of fighting drift detection.

Strengths
  • •No state files means no locking issues or corrupted state preventing deployments.
  • •Auto-discovers existing K8s workloads and merges them back into code automatically.
  • •Co-exists with Terraform and Pulumi rather than forcing a risky all-or-nothing migration.
Weaknesses
  • •FSL license restricts commercial use until open sourcing, limiting enterprise adoption.
  • •Merging manual console changes into code could produce unreadable diffs if not careful.
Target Audience

Platform engineers and DevOps teams managing hybrid cloud infrastructure

Similar To

Terraform · Pulumi · Crossplane

Post Description

Hi HN! I’m Zach, co-founder / CTO of Platform Engineering Labs.

We’re building formae, an open-source IaC system that stays in sync with real infrastructure instead of relying on manually maintained state and drift detection. We’ve just shipped Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform .tfvars support.

The goal with this release was simple: make it easy to start using formae with infrastructure people already have. formae can now discover existing k8s workloads automatically and the ability to utilize existing Helm charts.

Coming from Terraform / OpenTofu and already have variable definitions everywhere? formae now supports consuming values from existing .tfvars files. You can manage whole k8s clusters - from VMs to workloads - in the same consistent model. Changes made through Terraform, Pulumi, kubectl, or cloud consoles are automatically discovered and synced back into formae.

This release also includes the new public plugin hub, which is now home to our official plugins and, hopefully over time, community-built ones too.

Links:

https://github.com/platform-engineering-labs/formae

https://platform.engineering/

https://blog.platform.engineering/formae-now-comes-with-k8s-...

We’d love feedback from anyone working in platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE.

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