Platform Engineering Labs has released formae, an open-source infrastructure-as-code platform designed to address limitations in existing tools, focusing on automatic discovery, codification of existing infrastructure, and a reconcile/patch workflow. It uses PKL instead of HCL and targets reducing drift and complexity.
The article discusses the increasing complexity of Kubernetes and suggests that Silicon Valley is exploring alternative technologies for container orchestration, citing a benchmark showing a stripped-down stack outperforming Kubernetes.
