Platform Engineering Labs expands open source ‘formae’ Infra-as-Code
In a world where every try-hard company is registering a “domain hack” name in Anguilla and adding .AI to its company moniker, it might be important to think about how newer firms are presenting themselves to the market.
The notion of so-called platform engineering is currently very popular; it denotes the use of Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) that are capable of automating infrastructure and workflows, which is hoped to reduce the cognitive load developers have to shoulder in terms of infrastructure provisioning and toolset alignment.
Why not put platform engineering right in your company name then?
Platform Engineering Labs did – and the organisation has this month announced a major update to formae, its open source Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) platform.
Extended infrastructure customisation
The release includes beta support for four additional major cloud providers and introduces a platform for infrastructure builders designed to simplify how engineers extend and customise their infrastructure tooling. Using AI-assisted coding, this infrastructure customisation can be safely and reliably accelerated.
According to Platform Engineering Labs co-founder and CEO Pavlo Baron and team, “Infrastructure operations and platform teams currently face significant friction when attempting to extend legacy tools to support proprietary APIs or diverse cloud environments, a process that traditionally requires weeks of specialised development.”
By expanding cloud compatibility and making technology support easily and safely extensible for what the firm says is “almost any engineer”, formae is hoped to allow users to unify their infrastructure management and adapt to changing business needs without the usual operational complexity and long, brittle technology adoption cycles.
Following its initial launch in October 2025, formae has expanded its capabilities to address the growing demand for multi-cloud environments and digital sovereignty.
Cloud connections
The platform now supports Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, OVHcloud and connections to database company Oracle with its eponymously-named cloud infrastructure service.
This expansion is designed to allow infrastructure operations and platform engineers to manage diverse cloud estates using formae’s approach, which automatically discovers and codifies resources and changes into a unified source of truth without relying on fragile state management or requiring complicated migrations.
Platform for infrastructure builders
Alongside the new cloud integrations, Platform Engineering Labs has extended formae toward what it calls a “platform for infrastructure builders” toolkit that aims to address the historical difficulty of extending IaC platforms to support new or legacy technologies. While traditional platforms often require weeks or months of complex development to build providers, the new SDK leverages formae’s guaranteed schema safety and plugin interface simplicity to streamline this process.
“We rewrote our plugin interface and so derived our Plugin SDK,” said Zachary Schneider, co-founder and CTO of Platform Engineering Labs. “By making the development process simple and schema-safe, we are opening IaC to rapid customisation. Engineers can now use AI agents to produce and modify plugins that are reliable by design. By ‘eating our own dogfood’, we were able to deliver support for four major clouds with a team of four engineers quickly.”
This update reinforces the mission of Platform Engineering Labs to eliminate unnecessary toil and reduce human error in cloud operations. By providing schema-safe change management and keeping state invisible and always up-to-date, formae provides a consistent and predictable environment for developers and operations teams alike.
