What self-hosting your code buys you, where it still costs you, and how platforms like Cycle have lifted the operational tax that used to make it painful. From a team that's run its own for a decade.
Not sure which container orchestration platform is right for your team? Compare Kubernetes, ECS, Cycle.io, Nomad, and more to find the best fit for your stack in 2026.
Looking for a Kubernetes alternative? Explore the top platforms that reduce complexity and operational burden and discover a simpler path to modern application delivery.
Discover how a new wave of 'neocloud' providers—like Vultr, CoreWeave, and Hetzner—are challenging hyperscalers with better pricing, performance, and flexibility, driving a major shift in cloud adoption.
A deep dive into why Kubernetes struggles with multi-region deployments, and how Cycle simplifies infrastructure, networking, and operations by making multi-region the default.
A deep dive into how Proxmox and Cycle compare across deployment, infrastructure, networking, operations, and governance and why the choice often comes down to toolkit vs platform.
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.
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.
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this article, we break down the top Kubernetes security risks from the OWASP Top 10, including overly permissive RBAC, outdated clusters, and missing network segmentation.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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Cycle has added support for CherryServers, a bare metal infrastructure provider with 7 data centers spread around the globe. Additionally, this update contains a number of security improvements both within CycleOS and the platform itself.