Humanitec Alternative: Atmosly

Atmosly provides an IDP with service catalog, golden paths, and self-service portals—PLUS complete CI/CD pipelines, policy-as-code enforcement, visual pipeline builder, and native GitOps integration. Unlike Humanitec's Score specification (vendor lock-in risk), Atmosly uses standard Kubernetes manifests, Helm, and Kustomize. You get IDP benefits without hiding Kubernetes, allowing teams to learn while maintaining flexibility.

No, and that's intentional. Humanitec's Score specification is proprietary and creates vendor lock-in—migrating away requires rewriting all workload definitions. Atmosly uses industry-standard Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts, and Kustomize. This means you can migrate to/from Atmosly without vendor lock-in, use existing K8s ecosystem tools, and leverage community knowledge without learning proprietary specifications.

Yes. Atmosly can help convert Humanitec Score workload definitions to standard Kubernetes manifests or Helm charts. Migration typically takes 2-4 weeks depending on workload complexity. You can run both systems in parallel during transition. Our team provides Score-to-K8s conversion tools, migration planning, pipeline recreation, and training. Most teams report improved flexibility and reduced vendor dependency post-migration.

Different philosophies. Humanitec fully abstracts Kubernetes (developers don't see K8s)—simpler for beginners but creates knowledge gaps and limits flexibility. Atmosly provides golden paths and self-service while maintaining K8s transparency—developers use simplified interfaces but can access underlying K8s when needed. This "transparent abstraction" approach lets teams benefit from platform engineering while building Kubernetes expertise, avoiding black-box scenarios.

Yes. Atmosly supports dynamic preview environments, ephemeral test environments, and on-demand staging environments. Create temporary environments for pull requests, feature branches, or testing—automatically cleaned up after use. Unlike Humanitec's approach, Atmosly's environments use standard K8s namespaces and resources, making them compatible with existing tools and avoiding vendor-specific implementations.

Common reasons: 1) Vendor lock-in concerns with Score specification. 2) Need for CI capabilities, not just CD. 3) Want K8s transparency instead of complete abstraction. 4) Require advanced policy enforcement and governance. 5) Need cost optimization features. 6) Want visual pipeline builder. 7) Prefer standard K8s tools over proprietary specs. 8) Better pricing model (per-cluster vs per-developer). 9) Native GitOps with ArgoCD/Flux instead of operators.

Humanitec charges per-developer ($50-100/dev/month) plus resource-based fees. For a 50-developer team, expect $30,000-60,000 annually plus infrastructure costs. Atmosly offers per-cluster pricing ($2,000-4,000/month, $24,000-48,000 annually) with unlimited developers and unlimited services. For teams >20 developers, Atmosly is typically 30-50% more cost-effective, plus you get CI/CD included (Humanitec requires external CI).

Absolutely. Atmosly's service catalog, golden paths, and visual pipeline builder provide simplified interfaces for developers—no K8s expertise required to start. Difference from Humanitec: developers can gradually learn Kubernetes as they use Atmosly (transparency helps), whereas Humanitec's full abstraction keeps teams K8s-ignorant indefinitely. Atmosly's approach builds team capability over time while maintaining initial simplicity.

Yes, but Atmosly also provides built-in CI capabilities. You can integrate Atmosly with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, etc., for CD only—similar to Humanitec. However, unlike Humanitec which requires external CI, Atmosly offers complete CI/CD in one platform. This gives you flexibility: use Atmosly for everything, or integrate it as CD-only with your existing CI tools.

Comprehensive IDP migration support: free platform assessment, dedicated migration engineer, Score-to-Kubernetes conversion tools, workload definition migration, service catalog setup, golden path template creation, pipeline recreation, developer training, parallel running (2-4 weeks typically), post-migration optimization, and rollback support. We guarantee zero deployment downtime and provide Score conversion automation to minimize manual work.