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The Modern DevOps Platform
for Engineering Teams

Seamlessly orchestrate containers, VMs, and functions across your own infrastructure. Cycle delivers the power of a private cloud—without the overhead—and backs it with a team that's with you every step of the way.

Recognition

Named a 2024 Cool Vendor by Gartner for Container Management

Cycle is proud to be recognized by Gartner as a forward-thinking solution redefining infrastructure orchestration. Read the Report

Gartner Cool Vendor 2024
The Technology

Built for Orchestration at Every Layer

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.

  • Run containers, virtual machines, and functions anywhere
  • Integrated load balancing, automated health checks, and zero-downtime updates
  • Native support for bare metal, multi-cloud, and hybrid deployments
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The Experience

White-Glove Support, Always.

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.

  • Direct access to real engineers with real answers
  • Infrastructure advice from people who've seen it all
  • Fast, human-first communication every step of the way
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Engineered for Engineers

Engineering teams around the world rely on Cycle

From startups to global infrastructure providers, teams use Cycle to streamline operations and simplify orchestration.

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

Brian Luerssen

Chief Executive Officer at Draftbit

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

Darryl Agostinelli

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

Tom Renner

Engineering Lead at Solexperts

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

Sami Suteria

Staff Engineer at Joby

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

Jeff Klink

Vice President of Engineering & Cloud at Sera4

Cycle gives us the ability to empower our engineers to control the operations infrastructure without struggling or being experts with Amazon (ECS).

Casey Dement

Casey Dement

Head of Engineering at Busify

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

Beray Bentesen

Chief Executive Officer at Qubitro

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

Justin Fortier

Chief Executive Officer at FYC Labs

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

Galileo Sanchez

Lead Technologist at GLUi

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

Russ Dailey

Vice President of Data Centers at 639 Solar

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

Joe Toubia

Chief Technology Officer at New England Center for Children

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

Thomas van der Pol

Senior Developer at Submarine

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

Shea Newton

Director of Engineering at Optimism

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

Michael Third

Chief Technology Officer at ActivEngage

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.

Russ Dailey

Russ Dailey

VP of Data Centers at 639 Solar Data Centers + Cloud

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.

Ian Walker

Ian Walker

Head of DevSecOps at DoctorCare Anywhere

Cycle continues to grow in its offerings. This is exciting and something I have looked forward to for a while!

Dusty Chadwick

Dusty Chadwick

Head of Data at Suncrest Hospice

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.

Nicholas Raposo

Nicholas Raposo

Technical Infrastructure Architect at City of Burnaby

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.

Jeremy Dibert

Jeremy Dibert

Platform Services Manager at Nielsen

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!

Naru Muraleedharan

Naru Muraleedharan

Founder & CEO at Stax.ai

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.

639 Solar Data Centers

639 Solar Data Centers

at 639 Solar Data Centers

If you're tired of Kubernetes, look no further.

Brian Luerssen

Brian Luerssen

CEO & Founder at Draftbit

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!

Mark Panthofer

Mark Panthofer

Vice President of DevOps and Cloud at Nvisia

Built for Cloud, Colo & On-Prem

Deploy Anything, Anywhere.

Bare metal, cloud, hybrid—it doesn't matter. Cycle runs where you do, without the baggage of Kubernetes or VMware.

From Our Blog

Best Ways to Find Troublesome Containers and Virtual Machines Using Cycle's Portal

July 3rd, 2025

Learn how to identify and troubleshoot high CPU, memory, and disk usage across containers and virtual machines using Cycle's portal. Improve infrastructure stability with clear monitoring and actionable insights.

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Frequent Updates

Latest Platform Release

ALIAS DNS Support and New Internal API IP Metas

Version 2025.06.25.1

This release brings additional metadata functionality to internal API and expands DNS capabilities with ALIAS record support. We've also fixed an edge case in load balancer configurations applied through stacks where submitting a null config could cause issues.

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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.

Russ Dailey
Russ Dailey

VP of Data Centers

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.

Ian Walker
Ian Walker

Head of DevSecOps

Cycle continues to grow in its offerings. This is exciting and something I have looked forward to for a while!

Dusty Chadwick
Dusty Chadwick

Head of Data

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.

Nicholas Raposo
Nicholas Raposo

Technical Infrastructure Architect

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.

Jeremy Dibert
Jeremy Dibert

Platform Services Manager

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!

Naru Muraleedharan
Naru Muraleedharan

Founder & CEO

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.

639 Solar Data Centers
639 Solar Data Centers

If you're tired of Kubernetes, look no further.

Brian Luerssen
Brian Luerssen

CEO & Founder

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!

Mark Panthofer
Mark Panthofer

Vice President of DevOps and Cloud

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