Simplify how you build, host, and scale software. Cycle eliminates the heavy lifting so your team can move faster, stay online, and focus on what matters.
Simplify how you build, host, and scale software. Cycle eliminates the heavy lifting so your team can move faster, stay online, and focus on what matters.
Cycle is proud to be recognized by Gartner as a forward-thinking solution redefining infrastructure orchestration. Read the Report
Whether you're deploying containers, VMs, or functions, Cycle gives engineering and DevOps teams the flexibility to choose how and where workloads run. No cloud provider lock-in, no friction—just powerful orchestration across your own infrastructure.
Cycle is more than just a platform, it's an experience built with support at its core. From our first conversation, our team is ready with answers, insight, and infrastructure experience. No bots. No delays. Just responsive, technical support that you can actually rely on.
From startups to global infrastructure providers, teams use Cycle to streamline operations and simplify orchestration.
“Cycle isn't just a vendor, they're a trusted technical partner. Their platform enabled us to move away from a black-box hosting provider and confidently modernize our WordPress stack. We're now serving millions of requests per day with better uptime, more flexibility, and no need for dedicated infrastructure engineers.”
Shea Newton
Director of Engineering at Optimism
“We moved one of our platforms to AWS and didn't want to use Kubernetes. Nor did we want to make a bunch of DevOps decisions on which bundle of tools to use with it. With Cycle, we gained a streamlined PaaS that enabled us to move faster from day one.”
Joe Toubia
Chief Technology Officer at New England Center for Children
“The customer team at Cycle is super responsive and always quick to help with any issue, big or small. They're also really open to feature requests and actually listen — it's great to see how fast they act on feedback.”
Tom Renner
Engineering Lead at Solexperts
“Cycle was instrumental in our transition away from Kubernetes. Essentially, Cycle became our DevOps team, allowing us to focus on growth and delivery.”
Beray Bentesen
Chief Executive Officer at Qubitro
“It's been great. The response time is fantastic. It's so much so that my team has been able to build a genuine relationship with members of the support team. There's a high degree of understanding now of our use case. I know I like them because I keep recommending them.”
Darryl Agostinelli
Chief Technology Officer at New England Center for Children
“Cycle is so effective that we often forget about it. From time to time, they ping us to check if we need any help; most of the time, we don't. The infrastructure just works, so we can focus on building our features. They live up to their motto, 'LowOps DevOps.'”
Galileo Sanchez
Lead Technologist at GLUi
“With Cycle, their team feels like an extension of our workflow, they are always ready to jump in with the same speed, expertise, and care we expect from the platform itself. It's a huge part of why Cycle has been so valuable to us.”
Brian Luerssen
Chief Executive Officer at Draftbit
“With Cycle, we're able to move faster and with greater confidence, knowing their team is always on standby if we need support. The platform automates our data center operations so we can focus on what matters most: performance, reliability, and scale.”
Russ Dailey
Vice President of Data Centers at 639 Solar
“Cycle gives us the ability to empower our engineers to control the operations infrastructure without struggling or being experts with Amazon (ECS).”
Casey Dement
Head of Engineering at Busify
“Not only is Cycle support amazing, but the synergy between R&D and their engineering team is out of this world. When we have feature requests to make our lives easier they are usually happy to oblige. Our whole team has bought in and we couldn't be happier!”
Jeff Klink
Vice President of Engineering & Cloud at Sera4
“Cycle has been a breath of fresh air after spending nearly a decade running (and fixing!) Kubernetes on-prem. Networking, storage, and container orchestration are elegantly implemented. The best part is that more of our team can have a hand in day-to-day operations.”
Michael Third
Chief Technology Officer at ActivEngage
“Cycle's support has been fantastic and always really quick to respond to all my questions as I use the platform in new and odd ways. Always appreciate them going into rabbit holes with me as we explore moving off of K8s and into the future.”
Sami Suteria
Staff Engineer at Joby
“Cycle's approach has reduced the complexity of our infrastructure and CI/CD workflows. This led to major cost savings for our clients as we were able to create a robust environment without the complexity of managing several services within AWS.”
Justin Fortier
Chief Executive Officer at FYC Labs
“We deploy to both Vultr and GCP using the exact same process, all in one place, with zero extra effort. Since our devs don’t have to think about the infrastructure, they ship faster and more reliably.”
Brian Luerssen
Chief Executive Officer at Draftbit
“Cycle's flexible deployment pipelines helped us standardize, simplify, and speed up deployments—from 10 minutes down to 3. It's more reliable, faster to iterate, and enables safer roll-forwards.”
Thomas van der Pol
Senior Developer at Submarine
“In a market rattled by uncertainty after the Broadcom-VMware shakeup, this is exactly the kind of bold move the industry needed. While others scramble to make sense of licensing changes and platform overhauls, Cycle.io is stepping up; not just with tech, but with timing.”
Jeremy Dibert
Platform Services Manager at Nielsen
Bare metal, cloud, hybrid—it doesn't matter. Cycle runs where you do, without the baggage of Kubernetes or VMware.
Broadcom's licensing changes have forced many organizations to rethink their virtualization stack. This guide explores five credible VMware alternatives—including Cycle, Proxmox, and OpenStack—with real-world insights to help you choose the right fit for your infrastructure.
Keep ReadingVersion 2025.07.24.1
This update enhances platform flexibility with IPv6 support for Virtual Providers and improves overall system stability with critical fixes. It also refines API behavior to align with broader update patterns for a more consistent experience.
See the ChangesCycle continues to grow in its offerings. This is exciting and something I have looked forward to for a while!
Head of Data
If you're tired of Kubernetes, look no further.
CEO & Founder
This is wonderful! We've been using Cycle for 8 years and it's so different from what it was back then. The ability to run it on any infrastructure allowed us to build some powerful and creative solutions!
Founder & CEO
I'm a huge fan of Cycle.io and their platform -- these new features are awesome and if you've got any interest in DevOps at scale, you should definitely check them out.
Head of DevSecOps
We've been running Cycle in production to power a fully automated, solar-backed data center. It's lean, flexible, and eliminates the need for bloated licensing stacks. This is what modern infrastructure should look like.
VP of Data Centers
You really need to check this out! Cycle.io added bare metal hosting for VMs and containers, without needing VMware or Proxmox! Congratulations to Jake Warner, Alexander Mattoni and the rest of the Cycle.io crew. This is going to be a big deal!
Vice President of DevOps and Cloud
This is fantastic! In a market rattled by uncertainty after the Broadcom-VMware shakeup, this is exactly the kind of bold move the industry needed. While others scramble to make sense of licensing changes and platform overhauls, Cycle.io is stepping up; not just with tech, but with timing. This release couldn’t have landed at a better moment. Cycle.io is now positioned to carve off serious VMware market share and do it by offering something cleaner, faster, and refreshingly vendor agnostic.
Platform Services Manager
Software and developers like this are what we need in the current tech landscape. This product will outgrow others in the industry and is a worthwhile investment.
Technical Infrastructure Architect
We've been running Cycle.io in production to power our fully automated, solar-backed data center, managing VMs, containers, and bare metal through a single platform. Their latest release makes it even easier to move beyond Kubernetes and VMware.
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