FormaTeX

\usepackage{devops}

PDF Generation for DevOps Pipelines

Trigger a POST request. Receive a PDF. No LaTeX installation on your CI runner. No manual formatting. Just structured, beautiful documentation on every merge.

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Documentation That Ships With Your Code

Modern DevOps workflows produce a constant stream of structured data — changelogs, infrastructure states, compliance evidence, SLA metrics. That data needs to leave the pipeline as polished, auditable PDFs.

Release documentation

Automatically generate release notes and changelogs formatted as PDFs, attached to every GitHub Release or GitLab tag.

Compliance evidence

Produce audit-ready PDFs from compliance check results — SOC 2, ISO 27001, and internal policy reports — on each CI run.

Runbooks and playbooks

Convert your infrastructure runbooks from Markdown templates into professionally typeset PDFs stored in your artifact registry.

What Teams Do Without a LaTeX API

  • Install and maintain TeX Live on every CI runner — adds 3–5 GB to your Docker image
  • Write fragile shell scripts that break when LaTeX packages update
  • Hand-format PDFs in Word or Google Docs — no version control, no automation
  • Pay for expensive document generation SaaS with locked-in templates

One API Call. Publication-Quality PDF.

Drop a single curl command into any pipeline step. FormaTeX compiles your LaTeX source on managed infrastructure and returns a byte-perfect PDF.

curl -X POST https://api.formatex.io/v1/compile \
  -H "X-API-Key: $FORMATEX_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"source": "\\documentclass{article}\\begin{document}Release 2.4.1\\end{document}", "engine": "pdflatex"}' \
  --output release-notes.pdf
No TeX Live required4 LaTeX enginesAsync with webhooks

What DevOps Teams Build with FormaTeX

Automated Release Documentation

On every tag push, render a structured PDF changelog from your commit history and CHANGELOG.md template. Attach it to your GitHub Release automatically.

GitHub Actions

Infrastructure Runbooks

Generate versioned, PDF runbooks from your Terraform outputs and configuration templates. Every infrastructure change produces an up-to-date reference document.

GitLab CI / Docker

SLA Reports

Compile monthly SLA performance reports from your monitoring data. LaTeX gives you precise table alignment and charts via pgfplots — no manual layout work.

Cron / Scheduled pipeline

Audit Trails

Generate cryptographically datestamped PDFs of security scans, access reviews, and policy checks. Immutable evidence for compliance audits.

Compliance / SOC 2

Works With Your Stack

GitHub Actions

Use the FormaTeX action in any workflow step

GitLab CI

Native .gitlab-ci.yml job template available

Docker

Official Docker image for self-hosted runners

Add PDF Generation to Your Pipeline

Free tier — 15 API compilations per month. No credit card. No TeX Live installation required.

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