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Cycle vs OpenStack

OpenStack's open-source freedom comes with hidden costs: complex upgrades, sprawling microservices, and infrequent updates. Cycle unifies your DevOps tooling into a single, unified platform with frequent updates and no complex upgrades to manage.
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Looking to Move to Cycle from OpenStack?

Cycle was originally born out of a desire to build a better OpenStack. Some of our engineers were even original contributors to OpenStack. We've taken the best parts, and made them better while reducing much of the complexity and overhead associated with OpenStack.
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Simplicity
(More opinionated)
Customizability
(More complex)

Less Ops Burden

Running OpenStack often means building a team just to keep it alive. With Cycle, the control plane runs itself, freeing your engineers to focus on what matters most: your applications.

Automatic Upgrades

Cycle rolls out patches and updates automatically, so the platform stays current while you stay online.

Multi-Cloud & Hybrid

Why choose between on-prem or cloud? Cycle connects colo, private, and public cloud resources into a single fabric with built-in overlay networking and global L3.

Expert Support

No more chasing answers across vendors or forums. Every Cycle tier includes direct access to engineers who know the platform inside and out.

Features

Cycle.io

OpenStack

Architecture and Deployment
Model
Hybrid SaaS & PaaS
Self-Hosted(Open Source)
Management
hybrid(Self + Fully-Managed)
self-managed
Scope
On-prem / Colo / Cloud
On-prem / Colo
Pricing
Tiered(Seats & Servers)
Open Source
Bring Your Own Infrastructure
Bare Metal
Multi‑Cloud
Edge Support
add-on
Upgrade Automation
automatic
Manual
Core Infrastructure
Containers
(Kubernetes via Magnum)
VMs
Functions
BETA
Service Mesh
(Discovery)
Add-on
Load Balancing
Octavia
DNS
Designate
Networking
Automatic(managed overlay)
Automatic(Neutron SDN)
Storage
Automatic(managed volumes)
Automatic(Cinder / Ceph)
DevOps & Automation
CI/CD
Integrations
External
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Stacks(JSON / YAML)
Heat/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?

Move to Cycle from OpenStack Today

Schedule a guided demo with our team of experts - some of whom even helped build OpenStack - and get a first hand look into how we've taken the best parts of it, and built an even more capable DevOps platform.

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Bring Your Own Infrastructure.

Combine cloud and on-prem infrastructure, bare-metal or virtualized, under one platform. Cycle unifies it into a cohesive, managed private cloud.

The Power of LowOps.

Built for developers, on the backs of the experts. We removed the complexity so your team can move faster and deliver more.

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