Orchestrator v1 and v2

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What is the difference between Orchestrator v1 and v2? #

The first version of the Humanitec Platform Orchestrator, termed “v1”, is focused on the Kubernetes ecosystem.

While this works well for pure Kubernetes estates and makes Kubernetes-based deployments very easy in a number of ways, the v1 Orchestrator cannot easily serve organizations using serverless, VMs, or looking to deploy infrastructure only without workloads involved.

The Orchestrator “v2”, launched September 2025, is redesigned from the ground up to work with any compute and any resource in any cloud and on-prem. It can handle a VM estate on your private data center just like cloud-based Kubernetes, serverless, or really anything that can be managed via the Terraform/OpenTofu ecosystem.

The v2 concepts are greatly simplified and easier to get started. Concepts that proved valuable for organizations using v1 are continued into v2, including the project/environment structure, the idea of abstractions for easy deployment self-serve, the resource graph, and more.

As of November 2025, new organization signups are only possible for v2 going forward, while v1 continues to be supported and maintained.