We created the platform we always wanted to develop on.
We're a passionate team of builders who know how frustrating modern infrastructure is to manage. So, we decided to build a simpler, standardized alternative.
Focus on the 80%.
The reality is that 8 of 10 companies have roughly the same infrastructure and deployment requirements. Cycle provides that standard foundation right out of the box so you don't need to waste time configuring the basics. If you fall into the 20% with custom needs, Cycle has the webhooks, APIs, and escape hatches to quickly extend the control plane.
Prioritize the long-term
We designed Cycle for the long haul. Rather than chasing early VC rounds, we kept the team lean and focused purely on the underlying tech, creating a solid foundation we can confidently rely on for the next decade.
Default Alive
Angel Funded
Aim for the best, but plan for the worst
We focus heavily on risk mitigation, whether it's deploying across multiple providers or maintaining a sustainable business model. Our customers rely on Cycle to keep their products running, and maintaining that trust is our highest priority.
Our Locations.
Strategically positioned to offer low-latency operations and resilient, privacy-first engineering across North America and Europe.
Reno, Nevada
18124 Wedge Pky. #208
Reno, NV 89511
United States
Reykjavík, IS
P.O. Box 21
202 Kópavogur
Iceland
Built by Builders.
Take a look inside our global offices and see the team working behind the scenes.
Leadership & Backers.
Meet our passionate team of builders, backed by industry operators who share our frustration with the status quo.
Jake Warner
Alexander Mattoni
Chris Aubuchon
Brian Luerssen
Previously TechStars Chicago
Bob Savage
Tom Daly
Previously SVP Infrastructure @ Fastly
Cameron Kramlich
Davor Tarandek
Brandon Ewing
Pete Koomen
Junior Kim
Ian Struble
Dan Ushman
Zak Boca
And Counting
Our Evolution.
EU Control Plane
Launched the EU Control Plane in beta, giving European teams full data residency and sovereignty. Customers can now choose exactly where their control plane lives—keeping data on EU soil while running workloads on any infrastructure they own.
V1 Load Balancer Becomes Default
After a 2.5 year run of performance tuning and battle-testing in production, the V1 load balancer officially became the default for all new environments—retiring HAProxy as the standard while keeping it available for teams that need it.
External Volumes
Released External Volumes, a unified storage abstraction which supports connecting storage backends such as SAN or Ceph clusters, allowing users to create block or filesystem volumes that can be mounted into containers and VMs.
Data Center Adoption
Our first data center fully adopted Cycle to manage facility-wide orchestration at the bare-metal level, definitively proving our engine can serve as the foundational OS for physical infrastructures without relying on CNCF bloat.
Virtual Providers
Launched Virtual Providers, giving teams the ultimate abstraction. Users can now run Cycle on top of literally any infrastructure—cloud, on-prem, or bare metal—achieving complete freedom from vendor lock-in.
Virtual Machines
Launched Virtual Machines, enabling teams to run VM-based workloads alongside containers in the same environment. Perfect for legacy applications, hybrid stacks, and full OS workloads—all managed through the same control plane.
Cycle Learn Center
Launched the Cycle Learn Center, expanding our educational resources to help teams onboard, master platform primitives, and adopt our opinionated infrastructure standards faster than ever.
Cycle Community
Launched the official Cycle Community, creating a dedicated hub for our growing user base to share architectural patterns, collaborate on stacks, and directly interact with our core engineering team.
Rainbow Deployments
Introduced Deployments and Rainbow Deployments, allowing teams to run multiple versions of an application in the same environment and route traffic by tag. Combined with new pipeline and stack variable support, this unlocked zero-downtime updates, instant rollbacks, and far more flexible CI/CD workflows.
Native Load Balancer
Built and released Cycle's Native Load Balancer. This gave organizations deep visibility and control over their ingress traffic natively. Today, these edge proxies reliably process billions of hits per day.
GCP Integration
Expanded our multi-cloud support by adding Google Cloud Platform (GCP), completing our native infrastructure integration with the top three major public cloud providers.
Automated Mesh Encryption
Introduced fully automated, zero-touch encryption for all inter-node traffic across the global mesh network, securing workloads out-of-the-box without requiring any human involvement.
1 Million Containers
A massive scaling milestone. We surpassed 1,000,000 containers deployed across the global Cycle control plane, definitively validating the performance and reliability of our platform at scale.
Infrastructure Abstraction Layer
Launched the Infrastructure Abstraction Layer (IAL), giving teams the ability to run Cycle anywhere. From unsupported cloud providers to colocation racks to a server sitting in a closet, organizations could finally connect and manage any infrastructure under a single control plane.
GPU Support (Beta)
Released GPU support in beta, enabling users to provision NVIDIA GPU-powered infrastructure via the API or portal. A major step toward supporting accelerated workloads and AI/ML applications on the platform.
Pipelines, Variables & AWS
A massive release season. We launched GitOps-driven deployment Pipelines and Scoped Variables for advanced configuration management, alongside native infrastructure integration for AWS.
Vultr Integration
Continued our multi-cloud expansion by adding native support for Vultr, giving our users more geographic reach and provider flexibility for their compute needs.
Bring Your Own Infrastructure
We fundamentally shifted our business model. Moving away from a fully managed PaaS, we introduced BYOI—allowing users to connect, manage, and own their underlying servers.
The Great Rebuild
We realized a simple wrapper wouldn't scale. We went back to the drawing board and completely rebuilt Cycle from scratch, creating the proprietary Kubernetes-alternative engine.
First CaaS Launch
Launched our initial Containers-as-a-Service (CaaS) platform specifically targeted at developers. It was built on top of Packet (now Equinix Metal).