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Cycle vs. Nomad

Skip the overhead of stitching together schedulers, plugins, and secrets. Cycle brings it all together in one unified platform.
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Simplify Your Stack

While Nomad helps orchestrate workloads, you're still left managing service discovery, secrets, and storage on your own. Cycle takes care of these fundamentals out of the box, freeing your team to focus on writing code, not maintaining a DevOps system.
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Simplicity
(More opinionated)
Customizability
(More complex)

Native Networking

Nomad relies on Consul and CNI add-ons for discovery. Cycle has private overlay networking and service discovery built in.

First-Class Storage

Persistent apps on Nomad need CSI plugins or DIY. Cycle auto-provisions managed volumes that scale with your workloads.

Hybrid and Multi-Cloud by Default

Nomad can run anywhere, but wiring networks and policies across sites is a project. Cycle connects on-prem, colo, and cloud into a single fabric.

Less Add-On Sprawl

Nomad + Consul + Vault + mesh + monitoring = platform sprawl. Cycle integrates these services directly into the control plane.

No Manual Upgrades

Nomad upgrades are manual and risky. Cycle automates rolling updates and patches with no downtime.

Expert Support Included

Nomad support means community help or extra contracts. Cycle includes expert engineers at every tier for design, migration, and daily ops.

Features

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Nomad

Architecture and Deployment
Model
Hybrid SaaS & PaaS
Self-Hosted(Open Source)
Management
hybrid(Self + Fully-Managed)
hybrid(Self + Semi-Managed)
Scope
On-prem / Colo / Cloud
On-prem / Colo / Cloud
Pricing
Tiered(Seats & Servers)
Open Source & Subscription
Bring Your Own Infrastructure
Bare Metal
Multi‑Cloud
Edge Support
Upgrade Automation
automatic
Manual
Core Infrastructure
Containers
VMs
Functions
BETA
Service Mesh
(Discovery)
Add-on
Load Balancing
DNS
Consul
Networking
Automatic(managed overlay)
Manual(CNI/Consul DIY)
Storage
Automatic(managed volumes)
Manual(CSI/Host)
DevOps & Automation
CI/CD
Integrations
External
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Stacks(JSON / YAML)
Terraform
API
REST & Webhooks
REST
Monitoring
Add-on
Operations & Governance
ACL / RBAC
Multi‑Tenancy
Strong(Environments + Clusters + Namespaces)
Namespaces
Support Model
Included & Community
Paid & Community
Cycle on any infrastructure
Ready To Make The Switch?

Escape Nomad's Operational Overhead

Instead of wiring Consul, CNI plugins, and storage on Nomad, see what built‑in networking, integrated volumes, and seamless upgrade automation can do for your team's productivity.

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Networking Handled for You

We know wiring Consul and CNI is tedious, so Cycle includes service mesh and networking out of the box.

Granular Rollouts & Versioning

Cycle gives you precise control over update rollouts – deploy changes gradually, revert instantly on failure, and manage multiple app versions without guesswork.

Auto‑Scaling & High Availability

Nomad leaves scaling and failover up to you; Cycle provides built‑in auto‑scaling and high availability out of the box.

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