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

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

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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.

Our Biggest Platform Release in Years: Virtual Providers and Virtual Machines
May 14th, 2025
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Our Biggest Platform Release in Years: Virtual Providers and Virtual Machines

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.

Introducing Server Nicknames
April 29th, 2025
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Introducing Server Nicknames

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.

The Top 4 Kubernetes Misconfigurations You Can Avoid on Cycle
April 22nd, 2025
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The Top 4 Kubernetes Misconfigurations You Can Avoid on Cycle

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this article, we break down the top Kubernetes security risks from the OWASP Top 10, including overly permissive RBAC, outdated clusters, and missing network segmentation.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.

Examining Network Architectures: Kubernetes and Cycle
April 10th, 2025
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Examining Network Architectures: Kubernetes and Cycle

Kubernetes and Cycle: Exploring networking, security, and scaling in container orchestration.

Federation Done Right: Cycle's LowOps Approach
March 18th, 2025
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Federation Done Right: Cycle's LowOps Approach

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.

3 Neat Tricks and New Patterns Used in Cycle - from Cycle's Customer Success Team
March 6th, 2025
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3 Neat Tricks and New Patterns Used in Cycle - from Cycle's Customer Success Team

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.

Introducing the New Documentation and Learn Center
October 8th, 2024
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Introducing the New Documentation and Learn Center

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.

Announcing the Cycle Toolbox
August 6th, 2024
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Announcing the Cycle Toolbox

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!

Announcing the Cycle Community
July 29th, 2024
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Announcing the Cycle Community

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!

EKS vs Cycle: Comparing Worker Nodes
July 11th, 2024
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EKS vs Cycle: Comparing Worker Nodes

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.

Three Common Ways Cycle Pays for Itself
July 9th, 2024
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Three Common Ways Cycle Pays for Itself

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.

EKS vs Cycle: Comparing Cluster Setup
July 2nd, 2024
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EKS vs Cycle: Comparing Cluster Setup

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.

EKS vs Cycle: Comparing Control Planes
June 26th, 2024
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EKS vs Cycle: Comparing Control Planes

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.

Effortless DevOps Efficiency: How Cycle Provides A Foundation That Solves 80% of DevOps Problems On Day 1
June 4th, 2024
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Effortless DevOps Efficiency: How Cycle Provides A Foundation That Solves 80% of DevOps Problems On Day 1

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.

Introducing Functions: Batch Processing + Event-Driven Orchestration
April 30th, 2024
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Introducing Functions: Batch Processing + Event-Driven Orchestration

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.

Secure Connections with Environment-Level VPNs
April 18th, 2024
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Secure Connections with Environment-Level VPNs

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.

Reliable Backups in a Multi-Cloud World
April 9th, 2024
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Reliable Backups in a Multi-Cloud World

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.

Invisible Armor: Cycle's Behind-the-Scenes Update Guards Against Recent "Leaky Vessels" Container Exploit
February 1st, 2024
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Invisible Armor: Cycle's Behind-the-Scenes Update Guards Against Recent "Leaky Vessels" Container Exploit

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.

Introducing Rainbow Deployments with Zero Downtime
January 24th, 2024
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Introducing Rainbow Deployments with Zero Downtime

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.

Introducing Cycle's Native Load Balancer
December 20th, 2023
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Introducing Cycle's Native Load Balancer

Join Cycle's CEO Jake Warner for a first look at Cycle's new native V1 load balancer.

November 16, 2023
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The Power of LowOps

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.

September 26, 2023
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Cycle's New Interface Part III: The Future is LowOps

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.

September 7, 2023
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Cycle's New Interface, Part II: The Engineering Behind Cycle's New Portal

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.

August 30, 2023
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Cycle's New Interface, Part 1

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.

March 14th, 2023
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Announcing Native Support of IPSec on 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.

January 19th, 2023
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Introducing Cycle's Support for Google Cloud Platform

Cycle now natively supports Google Cloud Platform.

January 10th, 2023
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Introducing Cycle's Certificate Manager

Cycle's certificate manager makes managing TLS certificates simple.

December 6th, 2022
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Cycle is the LowOps approach to platform engineering.

Simplifying the process for deploying and managing applications.

November 16th, 2022
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PaaS On Your Terms

Introducing Cycle's Infrastructure Abstraction Layer (IAL).

August 3rd, 2022
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Need a GPU For Your Next App? Cycle Has Your Back!

Announcing Cycle's Support of GPU Infrastructure.

July 10th, 2022
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It's Time for a Straight-Forward Pricing Model

Announcing the release of Cycle's new pricing model.

The Case for Owning Your Infrastructure
April 27th, 2022
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The Case for Owning Your Infrastructure

Now more than ever, it's become essential for organizations to own their cloud infrastructure.

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