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Open-source Infrastructure As Code that starts from what already runs. formae discovers your estate, versions drift and hands back current code. A Terraform and Pulumi alternative built on Pkl, with an MCP server for AI agents.

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What it is

Open-source Infrastructure As Code that starts from what already runs. formae discovers your estate, versions drift and hands back current code. A Terraform and Pulumi alternative built on Pkl, with an MCP server for AI agents.

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by week2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2025-10-30 11:25:38 UTC to 2026-05-20 16:25:56 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

012025-10-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-11-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsOct 272025-11-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-11-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-11-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-11-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-11-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-11-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-11-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-12-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-12-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-12-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-12-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-02-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsFeb 22026-02-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-02-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-02-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-05-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-05-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-05-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsMay 18

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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Oct 272025-10-27 00:00:00 UTC2025-11-03 00:00:00 UTC110
Nov 32025-11-03 00:00:00 UTC2025-11-10 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 102025-11-10 00:00:00 UTC2025-11-17 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 172025-11-17 00:00:00 UTC2025-11-24 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 242025-11-24 00:00:00 UTC2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 12025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-12-08 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 82025-12-08 00:00:00 UTC2025-12-15 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 152025-12-15 00:00:00 UTC2025-12-22 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 222025-12-22 00:00:00 UTC2025-12-29 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 292025-12-29 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-05 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 52026-01-05 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-12 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 122026-01-12 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-19 00:00:00 UTC000
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Jan 262026-01-26 00:00:00 UTC2026-02-02 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 22026-02-02 00:00:00 UTC2026-02-09 00:00:00 UTC000
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Feb 162026-02-16 00:00:00 UTC2026-02-23 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 232026-02-23 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-02 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 22026-03-02 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-09 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 92026-03-09 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-16 00:00:00 UTC000
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Mar 232026-03-23 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-30 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 302026-03-30 00:00:00 UTC2026-04-06 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 62026-04-06 00:00:00 UTC2026-04-13 00:00:00 UTC000
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Apr 272026-04-27 00:00:00 UTC2026-05-04 00:00:00 UTC000
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May 112026-05-11 00:00:00 UTC2026-05-18 00:00:00 UTC000
May 182026-05-18 00:00:00 UTC2026-05-25 00:00:00 UTC110

What Hacker News says

2 sources
discountelf·May 20, 2026Submission

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

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 discove
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red 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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