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.
Discover what container orchestration is, why it's essential for scaling modern applications, and how platforms like Kubernetes and Cycle compare. Learn how to choose the right solution based on your team's needs, complexity, and infrastructure.
Learn when to choose containers vs virtual machines for modern workloads. This guide breaks down real-world decision factors—like kernel control, data persistence, and audit scope—to help you deploy smarter across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Explore real-world use cases for solving infrastructure challenges with Cycle's support for bare metal, on-prem, and hybrid environments. Run VMs and containers side-by-side, automate deployment, and integrate with providers like Vultr, Hetzner, and Open Metal—all while avoiding vendor lock-in.
Learn when to choose bare metal over hyperscalers, the real cost of cloud, and why virtualization still matters. Discover how Cycle.io offers a powerful VMware and Kubernetes alternative for hybrid infrastructure.
Explore the top 5 observability and monitoring tools in 2025 — from Prometheus to Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Uptrace, and New Relic. Learn how they stack up, key features, challenges, and how Cycle makes integration simple for teams moving beyond Kubernetes.
Discover the top 5 CI/CD tools — GitHub Actions, GitLab, CircleCI, TeamCity, and Buildkite. Learn more about how they integrate with Cycle to streamline your DevOps pipeline, reduce downtime, and simplify infrastructure deployment without Kubernetes or YAML.
Cycle's biggest release yet introduces Virtual Providers and support for Virtual Machines—unlocking true hybrid infrastructure and positioning Cycle as a powerful Kubernetes and VMware alternative.
Cycle introduces Server Nicknames — a simple but powerful update that enhances server management across cloud and on-prem infrastructure. Say goodbye to confusing hostnames and hello to clarity, custom naming, and better DevOps workflows. Discover how this small feature makes a big impact.
Most Kubernetes misconfigurations start small — but can take down production fast. In this article, we break down the top Kubernetes security risks from the OWASP Top 10, including overly permissive RBAC, outdated clusters, and missing network segmentation. More importantly, we explore how Cycle.io takes a fundamentally different, secure-by-default approach that removes the burden of manual configuration and minimizes the risk of human error. If you're tired of fighting Kubernetes complexity, this breakdown is for you.
Discover why adopting Cycle is a career-safe, cost-efficient, and developer-friendly decision. From increased reliability and developer empowerment to massive infrastructure savings—Cycle delivers real ROI without Kubernetes complexity.
Discover the top 7 DevOps news and thought leadership sources for 2025, handpicked to help you cut through the noise and stay ahead of meaningful trends. From industry staples like DevOps.com and InfoQ to community-driven platforms like Hacker News and Reddit's r/DevOps.
Kubernetes and Cycle: Exploring networking, security, and scaling in container orchestration.
Top Kubernetes alternatives: 1. Cycle.io, 2. Docker Swarm, 3. Amazon ECS, 4. VMware Tanzu, 5. Google Cloud Run, 6. Hashicorp Nomad, 7. Azure Container Instances. Looking for Kubernetes alternatives in 2025? Discover 7 powerful container platforms like Cycle, Nomad, and Cloud Run that offer simpler, scalable orchestration—without the K8s complexity. Compare pricing, features, and which one fits your needs.
Bare metal cloud is making a major comeback as enterprises demand more performance, control, and cost efficiency from their infrastructure. With the bare metal market projected to grow 4x by 2030, modern platforms like Cycle.io are eliminating complexity and making bare metal deployments as simple as virtual machines—no Kubernetes, no YAML, just seamless infrastructure.
Discover why search interest in Kubernetes alternatives is surging — and why teams are rethinking Kubernetes in favor of simpler, cost-effective platforms like Cycle.
Explore the evolution of software delivery, through the lense of DevOps and platform engineering, highlighting insights from industry expert Ian Walker. We break down the benefits and challenges of both approaches, from the cultural philosophy of DevOps to the structured methodologies of Platform Engineering. While Kubernetes demands specialized expertise, Cycle's LowOps platform unifies Dev and Ops, reducing complexity and boosting efficiency. Whether you're embracing DevOps, transitioning to Platform Engineering, or seeking a Kubernetes alternative, Cycle provides the tools to streamline your journey.
Federation is more popular than ever with teams pursuing multi-cloud, distributed architectures in order to provide their users a better, more complaint experience. Take a peek into how Cycle approaches federation differently, combining the flexibility of distributed systems with the simplicity of a centrally managed platform.
Explore the growing cloud repatriation trend, why companies are shifting from hyperscalers like AWS, GCP, and Azure back to on-premises solutions, and how prioritizing cost efficiency, security, and predictability can benefit your infrastructure strategy.
Lately, we've seen some really creative Cycle platform workflows take shape—things like ultra-dynamic pipelines, smarter SEO routing, and custom TLS setups. In this post, we share some of the best patterns we've come across, straight from real users making the most of Cycle.
Discover five key lessons from Cycle's competitors in the DevOps and container orchestration space. Learn how Cycle balances flexibility with simplicity, scales without growing DevOps teams, automates security updates, enhances ease of use without limits, and ensures transparent pricing.
Discover how Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) streamline software development by reducing friction, improving security, and enhancing collaboration. Learn why teams are adopting IDPs, the benefits and challenges, and how Cycle.io provides a powerful yet simple solution.
Learn how to securely connect your Cycle.io environment to Cloudflare using Cloudflare Tunnel. This step-by-step guide covers setup, authentication, and DNS configuration to ensure all traffic routes through Cloudflare, enhancing security with DDoS protection, Zero-Trust access, and improved infrastructure integration. Strengthen your cloud security today!
Hear directly from Cycle.io users as they reflect on the biggest updates of 2024 and share what they're most excited about for 2025.
Learn about key DevOps trends for 2025, including the focus on developer experience, the shift to hybrid cloud models, and the practical applications of AI in operations.
Discover how to deploy WordPress in a distributed architecture using GCP and Cycle. This blog covers overcoming challenges with scaling, storage, and availability, and how offloading media and databases enhances performance.
Cycle.io is honored to be named a 2024 Gartner® Cool Vendor™ in Container Management. Cycle delivers simplicity in container orchestration and infrastructure management, offering an alternative to Kubernetes that reduces complexity and technical debt. With automatic updates, BYOI flexibility, and integrated observability, Cycle empowers organizations to retain full control over their infrastructure while optimizing resource utilization.
Discover the challenges of maintaining accurate time in distributed systems and why clock synchronization is crucial. Learn how Cycle tackled time drift with improved NTP sync intervals to prevent data inconsistency, logging errors, and security issues.
Explore the Cycle.io Community's first 100 days. A space where clients, partners, developers, and champions come together. This milestone reflects meaningful discussions, valuable feature requests, and resource sharing across the Cycle user base.
Explore the new Learn and Documentation sections on our website. The Learn section offers free resources on DevOps, containers, networking, and orchestration, while the revamped Documentation provides clearer guidance with enhanced search functionality.
August has been an outstanding month for the Cycle team, marked by significant advancements across the platform. We've introduced new features aimed at simplifying workflows and enhancing user experience. As we wrap up August and look ahead to September, we're excited to share the progress we've made and what you can expect in the coming weeks.
Discover the Cycle Toolbox, a growing suite of tools designed to streamline workflows for DevOps professionals and developers. Our initial release features the Docker Compose Converter for seamless migration from Docker to Cycle, the Global DNS Propagation Validator for real-time DNS status insights, and the 'What's My IP' tool for quick IP address retrieval. Keep an eye out for even more tools coming soon!
Discover the essential tips and tricks to optimize your Dockerfile for speed and efficiency. Learn how to minimize build context, intelligently order layers, and leverage multi-stage builds to enhance your Docker builds. This comprehensive guide covers everything from reducing context size with .dockerignore to sharing image layers organization-wide with Depot.dev. Perfect for developers looking to streamline their DevOps processes and achieve faster deployments on platforms like Cycle.io.
Cycle's July 2024 recap: Launched the Cycle Community forum, introduced native monitoring tools, enhanced pipeline parallelism, and improved the load balancer with new WAF features. August will expand monitoring, logging, and alerting capabilities for comprehensive infrastructure insights. Stay tuned for more updates and innovations.
Discover Cycle's new Community Forum, a hub for collaboration, education, and technical support. Engage with fellow Cycle users, ask questions, share insights, and stay updated with the latest platform changes. Our forum features code highlighting, image support, robust search functionality, and categorized threads. Join us to foster a vibrant community of Cycle enthusiasts. Sign up with your Cycle account to start participating today!
Dive into the history of containers, from Unix's chroot and FreeBSD Jails to Docker, Kubernetes, and Cycle.io. Discover how containers evolved to become a key part of modern software development and deployment, as well as important milestones and how containers shape today's cloud.
Explore why Voze, a leading sales acceleration platform, chose Cycle as the platform for building their next generation of products.
Discover how to mitigate the risks of a low bus factor in your software engineering team with the Cycle platform. Learn about the implications of reduced productivity, increased risk, and onboarding challenges, and how Cycle's developer-centric container orchestration can allow your organization to distribute critical knowledge and skills across teams and individuals.
In this final entry of the Kubernetes alternatives: EKS vs Cycle series, readers will discover some of the key differences between Amazon EKS and Cycle in managing worker nodes for a cluster.
In today's tech world, saving money without losing performance is key. Cycle helps by automating DevOps tasks, using infrastructure more efficiently, and reducing vendor costs. Real users share how Cycle made their work easier and cut expenses. With Cycle, your team can focus on growth and innovation. Learn how Cycle's all-in-one platform saves money and improves your business.
Kubernetes alternative Cycle.io is a much different experience than Amazon EKS. Join our Head of Customer Success Chris Aubuchon as he looks at what it takes to spin up an EKS cluster and how that compares to the same on Cycle. Container orchestration just got a whole lot simpler.
Amazon EKS is a fully managed Kubernetes control plane. In this article, we'll take a deeper look at what that means, what technologies and tooling is and is not included, and talk a bit more about the top Kubernetes alternative: Cycle.io.
Experiencing massive early success and years of growth on the horizon, the FlowPath team needed to find a long-term platform to outperform Heroku while staying cloud agnostic. Explore how the strategic decision to use Cycle enabled them to stay focused on their core product, use existing AWS credits, and cut long-term costs dramatically.
Building a platform isn't easy, but after nearly a decade, we at Cycle have learned a lot. Our top three tech decisions for success? Pick the right core tech stack, prioritize data security and compliance, and find the right balance of customization. Let's make your platform journey smoother together.
Cycle is designed to streamline DevOps, reduce technical debt, and enable organizations to focus on what they do best—innovating and delivering value to their customers. While standardizing the 80% is something we believe is extremely important, we also understand that every organization is unique and has different needs. While we provide a highly opinionated platform, we also offer the flexibility and customization needed for you to take control of your DevOps journey and focus on the 20% that is most important to your company.
Choosing between Kubernetes or the K8s alternative - Cycle.io is much like selecting the right car. Kubernetes is the high-performance option for those who need power and flexibility and are willing to invest in maintenance and expertise. Cycle.io, on the other hand, offers a practical, efficient solution for those who prioritize ease of use and rapid deployment. By carefully evaluating your specific needs and constraints, you can select the tool that best fits your purpose, ensuring that your application runs smoothly and efficiently.
In recent years, Kubernetes has emerged as the go-to solution for container orchestration, offering flexibility and scalability for deploying and managing applications. However, organizations quickly realize that the allure of its open-source nature can be deceiving—while free to download, the costs of managing Kubernetes can stack up rapidly.
As the leading LowOps platform, our team is thrilled to announce the launch of Cycle Functions - a new way to run task-based containers on top of the platform. Functions are just normal containers on Cycle, with a catch: they start when a request is made, and shut down when the request is finished.
OpenAPI schemas can be used to increase parallelization across teams, keep up-to-date documentation for internal teams and customers, and generate client SDKs for interacting with your applications in any language. At Cycle, we are able to build more stable DevOps tooling across our stack by guaranteeing compatibility between our API and user interfaces. Come join Alexander Mattoni as he dives deep into building modern REST APIs with OpenAPI.
Cycle's approach to VPN service makes creating, authentication, and management of environment-level VPNs a breeze. Join Chris Aubuchon as he dives into Cycle VPNs, how to configure them, and how they stack up against other services like Kubernetes, ECS, Cloud Run, App Service, and more.
At Cycle.io, we see many unique situations involving data requirements, retention, and security. As a multi/hybrid cloud and LowOps platform, we've had to come up with some pretty interesting solutions for backups and data protection. In this article, I'll dive into the challenges faced with backing up/restoring stateful container data, and how we make it flexible, yet easy to do on the Cycle platform.
Heroku has held a major place in the PaaS market for years, but as the industry evolves, is stagnation setting in? Cycle.io offers a new approach to PaaS that is more flexible, more powerful, and more cost-effective. Here's how we stack up against the competition.
Startups like Busify often find themselves grappling with the daunting task of managing applications and the underlying infrastructure, without the luxury of a dedicated team of DevOps experts - a story we know all too well! Join us for this story on how Busify moved from ECS to Cycle and the impact they've seen so far.
While many of the simplicity-first promises that Docker Swarm makes are comparable with Cycle.io's manifesto, take a deeper look at why many users outgrowing Swarm are migrating to Cycle and why Cycle makes them feel at home.
With Broadcom's acquisition of VMware come doubts about the future of Tanzu and other VMware products and services, and a huge spike in those looking for alternatives - including Cycle.io.
In our continuous mission to improve development workflows and operational efficiency for our users, Cycle.io is thrilled to announce a new partnership with Depot.dev. This collaboration is set to revolutionize how organizations build images, focusing on accelerating the Dockerfile build process.
Kubernetes has become quite the conundrum. It's 2024 and more teams than ever are looking for an alternative to the self-proclaimed “de-facto” container solution for reasons ranging from long-term complexity to its absolutely massive cost to maintain.
At Cycle, we understand the paramount importance of security and the challenges that come with maintaining it. That's why we're proud to share how our proactive approach has not only addressed the recent “Leaky Vessels” container exploit, but has done so in a manner entirely transparent to our customers, and in under 4 hours of the vulnerability being made public.
We're thrilled to announce the launch of our latest feature: Deployments! This game-changing addition is set to redefine how our users deploy and manage their applications, ensuring zero downtime and enhancing productivity.
A new year has started and some of the major IaaS providers are making major changes early on. AWS and GCP have both announced major changes that might be a signal for what's to come this year.
Cycle was recently featured in a breakout article on The New Stack talking about our mission to replace Kubernetes and the many issues that come from its operation.
2023 was a year to remember for the Cycle team. Come join us for a look back at some major technology milestones and learn a bit more about what we've been up to.
Join Cycle's CEO Jake Warner for a first look at Cycle's new native V1 load balancer.
Learn how Cycle's versatile platform streamlines development by managing technical debt, enhancing user experience, and adapting to project needs. A must-read for efficient and adaptable software solutions.
As we delve into the complex world of software engineering, it's apparent that navigating tradeoffs isn't about finding one-size-fits-all solutions. Rather, it's about understanding that each product will find itself on a spectrum, balancing tradeoffs.
Choosing the wrong container management solution can be a real headache. Two popular options - Kubernetes and IaaS services (ex: Fargate or ECS) made big promises early on, but have come up short for many. Join Chris Aubuchon as he contrasts common issues with existing platforms and shows how Cycle can be a better solution.
The software engineering world has become a place where compute, storage, and availability have become the cornerstones of scale. As an industry and as individuals, we should stop to take a closer look at scaling the most important of all resources… our people.
With nearly half a decade of DevOps sales experience, Konner Bemis has been front-row to many organizations' successes and failures. He reflects on common issues in DevOps adoption and how LowOps can help your organization.
While containers help standardize libraries, dependencies, and portability, it's no secret that the environments you're running those containers in are still susceptible to inconsistency.
After participating in nearly a hundred demos of the platform, Matt shares about the experience thus far. He compares Cycle and Kubernetes, discusses the primary pain points heard from prospects and K8s users on a daily basis, and explains how Cycle alleviates these challenges.
Looking for a new container platform? Join Chris as he dives into existing container platforms, pros & cons, and a process for deciding what platform is best for your team.
Want to adopt IPv6 networks for your containerized environments, but not sure where to start? Take a hands-on look at how to configure and debug containers in IPv6 networks.
Containerizing and deploying a production Remix application on the LowOps platform Cycle.
Multi-cloud seems obvious to a lot of organizations, but what isn't obvious is how to implement it, especially with a DevOps centric approach.
Join our Head of Engineering, Alex Mattoni as he guides us through what's in store for Cycle users, including inside looks at PWA architecture, LowOps auto-scaling.
How do we enhance predictability and what might happen if a team of world-class systems engineers worked tirelessly to build a development platform that made infrastructure, networks, DNS, and deployments standardized and predictable?
A guide for setting up single node or clustered RabbitMQ on Cycle.
In this 3 part series, we'll dive into the how and why of the new portal, both on a user experience level, and a technical level. In the final installment, we'll look forward and discuss the anticipated future and the exciting possibilities that lie ahead.
In this 3 part series, we'll dive into the how and why of the new portal, both on a user experience level, and a technical level. In the final installment, we'll look forward and discuss the anticipated future and the exciting possibilities that lie ahead.
In the dynamic landscape of software development, the terms DevOps and Platform Engineering have garnered attention. Both concepts, although distinct, aim at a shared goal: to build efficient, streamlined systems that simplify code deployment within organizations.
In the dynamic landscape of software development, the terms DevOps and Platform Engineering have garnered attention. Both concepts, although distinct, aim at a shared goal: to build efficient, streamlined systems that simplify code deployment within organizations.
Taking a look at sharing the value Cycle brings to the channel partner ecosystem through organic conversations.
Kubernetes has fallen from peak hype and many teams are looking for an alternative. Cycle is the alternative to Kubernetes and solves many problems introduced by k8s.
Taking a look at issues affecting GPU infrastructure and deployments, as well as how they can be solved through Cycle.
Learn how to configure and deploy Redis and Redis Sentinel to Cycle.
By adding support for IPSec to the Cycle platform, we are providing our users with an additional layer of protection for their networks and infrastructure.
Cycle now natively supports Google Cloud Platform.
Cycle's certificate manager makes managing TLS certificates simple.
Taking a look at what we've been up to in 2022.
Simplifying the process for deploying and managing applications.
Introducing Cycle's Infrastructure Abstraction Layer (IAL).
Bringing a Kubernetes alternative to the masses.
Get started using Github Actions and Cycle Pipelines to automate deployments.
Announcing Cycle's Support of GPU Infrastructure.
Announcing the release of Cycle's new pricing model.
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