Navigating Multi-Cloud Environments: Managing Deployments with Ease

Multi-cloud seems like an obvious path for most organizations, but what isn’t obvious is how to implement it, especially with a DevOps centric approach.

For Cycle users, multi-cloud is just something they do. It’s a native part of the platform and a standardized experience that has led to 70+% of our users consuming infrastructure from more than 1 provider.

So what’s so different about Cycle and how does our standardized and automated approach to DevOps mitigate some of the downfalls present in an everyday DIY multi-cloud approach?

Let's take a look.

Infrastructure and Environments

The first thing that might be challenging in setting up a multi-cloud environment is creating an Environment (similar to a VPC) that spans the breadth of multiple providers, has consistent networking standards, and has automated and predictable deployments.

This process is really straight forward on Cycle as shown in the following clip.

If you’ve tried to implement this yourself, or even using some type of managed kubernetes or managed service approach with another networking piece on top, you might immediately notice how much simpler Cycle is. That’s because Cycle was built to be multi-cloud from the start. So what does it look like to run that environment with HA services and how do you deploy container instances across that infrastructure?

Reaching High(er) Availability

This next clip is a demo showing how to set up HA services and deploying a container using the HA Deployment Strategy.

What you can see here is that managing these deployments is incredibly straightforward and that really brings home a couple big benefits:

• Simple to reason about, especially from an architectural and networking level.
• Consolidated, using the portal you can get a “single pane of glass”, no need to log into several different provider consoles. (Soon you’ll be able to get the same style feedback through our CLI).
• Efficient, the platform does all the heavy lifting and gets continuous updates.

A Multi-Cloud Native World

Flexibility, choice, high(er) availability, reduction in vendor lock, data sovereignty, the list goes on and on. What was once considered a pipe dream is now easily within reach. We can't wait to see what you'll build next!

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