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Aeris Stewart
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1008
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English
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Summary

The Humanitec Platform Orchestrator is a centerpiece of any enterprise-grade Internal Developer Platform (IDP), enabling Dynamic Configuration Management across the entire software delivery cycle, whereas Port is an internal developer portal that lets developers define any catalog for services, resources, K8s, CI/CD etc. The Orchestrator and Port belong to different categories, occupy different planes of the platform's architecture, and have different primary use cases. To architect an IDP effectively, it's essential to build around a Platform Orchestrator like Humanitec's, enable Dynamic Configuration Management, and then decide on abstraction layers for developers, adopting Port as a portal on top. The combination of these tools enables standardization by design across the entire software development lifecycle, improving developer experience and reducing complexity of app and infra configurations.