Platform Engineering Labs adds Kubernetes and Helm automation to Formae

For streaming infrastructure, managing specialized playback and encoding clusters across fragmented cloud environments often leads to significant 'state drift.' This update addresses that by providing a unified record that doesn't require teams to abandon legacy Terraform logic or Helm-based container deployments. In a broader ecosystem where platform engineering maturity is becoming a competitive necessity, Formae’s discovery-first approach offers a path to reduce the cognitive load on SRE teams without forcing a total stack replacement. Watch for Formae to add support for sovereign cloud providers like OVHcloud as streaming firms prioritize regional data compliance.

The update to Formae arrives as the platform engineering market experiences a consolidation around Kubernetes-native workflows. According to PlatformEngineering.org (November 2025), Kubernetes and Terraform/OpenTofu have become the foundational technologies for nearly all cloud-native platform teams. However, the rise of 'shadow IT' and manual configuration changes remains a primary cause of operational failure. Gartner recently forecasted that 80% of software engineering organizations will establish platform teams by 2026, up from just 45% in 2022, as firms struggle to manage the sheer volume of microservices (per ajeetraina.com, December 2025).

Formae distinguishes itself from established Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools like Terraform and Pulumi by prioritizing infrastructure discovery over idealized planning. Per SiliconANGLE (October 2025), CEO Pavlo Baron noted that the platform is designed to accept the 'messy truth' of existing environments rather than requiring a clean-slate migration. This matches a broader industry shift toward GitOps-based reconciliation, popularized by tools like Argo CD, which treat the running cluster as the ultimate source of truth.

Furthermore, the platform's move into the Kubernetes ecosystem aligns with the growing demand for 'Internal Developer Platforms' (IDPs). As reported by InfoQ (May 2026), the new Formae public plugin hub and its use of Apple’s Pkl configuration language are intended to lower the barrier for AI-assisted infrastructure management. This allows organizations to automate complex networking and storage policies that were previously too brittle to maintain in traditional declarative scripts, a critical requirement for scaling high-bandwidth streaming services.