Overview
Why Humanitec?
Humanitec offers pivotal products to build your enterprise-grade Internal Developer Platform (IDP) for containerized workloads.
The Humanitec products foster a clear separation of concerns. Platform engineering or ops teams specify baselines for environment and infrastructure provisioning, automating recurring tasks for application deployments, and enforcing standards. Developer teams gain autonomy to request infrastructure and deploy anytime, with the IDP spinning up environments as needed, and without requiring ops and infra knowledge.
Together, the products reduce cognitive load, drive standardization, and slash time to market.
The Humanitec products integrate with your existing tech and tools through APIs and by supporting popular tooling such as Terraform.
What are Humanitec’s products?
Humanitec offers these products platform engineering teams can use to build their IDP.
The Humanitec Platform Orchestrator
The Platform Orchestrator is the configuration engine at the center of your IDP and ensures standardization by design across infrastructure provisioning and app config management. It enables developers to self-serve all the tech and tools they need to work more efficiently while eliminating ticket ops and ops bottlenecks.
The Humanitec Portal
The Humanitec Portal is a web-based user interface on top of the Platform Orchestrator. It is designed to let developers access self-service capabilities, manage environments and deployments, and gather insights into the status of their applications. Likewise, platform engineers can perform resource management and set up infrastructure orchestration.
It is possible and quite common to use other portals for IDP-related use cases besides, or instead of, the Humanitec Portal, depending on your setup.
There is no dedicated Portal section in this developer documentation. Instead, the Portal’s web UI features are covered throughout while describing any particular functionality.
What is Score?
Score is an open-source, platform-agnostic, container-based workload specification to which Humanitec is a contributor. With Score, you can define your workload once using the Score Specification and then use a Score Implementation to translate it to multiple platforms. The Humanitec Platform Orchestrator integrates natively with Score.
What does an IDP built with Humanitec look like?
An enterprise-grade IDP built with Humanitec’s products will most likely look like this:
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The Humanitec reference architectures for Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) are tried and true blueprints for building your platform. They provide a structure and common language for your teams to follow, and will help get your design right from the ground up.
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Learn how to build an Internal Developer Platform developers will love. Learn more about design principles, platform engineering theory, most common user stories and how to cover them. Backed by ref archs, tutorials and real life examples.
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Deploy ephemeral Environments
Set up ephemeral environments using Score with the Humanitec Platform Orchestrator
Laern moreIntegrate your CD/CD setup
Use your existing CI/CD setup in conjunction with the Humanitec products
Learn moreUse existing Terraform modules
Re-use an existing Terraform module to provision a resource using the Platform Orchestrator
Learn modeConnect your Kubernetes cluster
Integrate the Platform Orchestrator with your existing Kubernetes clusters wherever they’re hosted
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