Adopting an Alternative To Kubernetes

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Tired of Kubernetes-Induced Stress?

Kubernetes is notoriously difficult, demanding expertise that takes years to acquire to build out and maintain a DevOps solution worthy of production. Whether it's managing multiple clusters, resolving container networking issues, or simply rolling out an update, the inherit complexity of Kubernetes will sneak up on even the most experienced teams.

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Painful Updates And Dependencies

Updating Kubernetes is challenging for even the most experienced teams. Larger updates may even force a migration into a new cluster, rather than attempting to update one in place.

Managing Stateful Workloads

Deploying stateful apps on Kubernetes is tough because managing storage and keeping data consistent isn't easy. Recovery and scaling across different nodes also adds to the challenge.

Finding Trustworthy Devops Talent

Hiring DevOps engineers is easy, but hiring DevOps engineers who have the skills and experience to ensure your Kubernetes clusters stay up-to-date and healthy is a challenge we hear from organizations all the time.

Multi-Region/On-Prem Complexity

Managing multi-region or on-prem setups is tricky because it requires maintaining multiple unique clusters, each with its own configuration and coordination challenges. Ensuring consistency and connectivity between these environments adds to the complexity.

Remove Complexity

A Complete Platform

Networking Automation That Works

Cycle delivers composable, zero-maintenance networking without the technical debt. Build advanced L2/L3 software-defined networks (SDNs) across environments—no sidecars, no YAML, no headaches. Security and connectivity are built in, not bolted on.

Istio
Linkerd
Envoy
Traefik

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Run Anywhere with Confidence

AWS, GCP, bare metal cloud, on-prem, or even your home lab, Cycle runs wherever x86 lives. Create or extend your private cloud with confidence.

Terraform
Ansible
Chef
Puppet

Dive into Infrastructure Management

Observability Included

Cycle includes advanced monitoring, observability, logging, and alerting -- no 3rd party tooling required.

Prometheus
Grafana
Datadog
Jaeger

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From the Ground Up

Purpose Built

Cycle wasn't built on top of Kubernetes, Docker, or any other existing project and that is entirely by design. From the start, every component has been crafted to deliver an experience that can only come from a single unified platform.

This approach to building removes layers of complexity, minimizes points of failure, and enables deep synergy across compute, networking, and storage.

The result?

A better developer experience, enabling a larger portion of your team to make meaningful contributions without needing to get "the ops person" involved.

Always Up To Date

Automatic, Seamless Updates

Kubernetes makes updating difficult. Ignoring updates due to complexity and potential downtime can lead to massive security vulnerabilities and compatibility issues, as software underpinning your DevOps ecosystem goes out of date.

Cycle keeps your infrastructure, compute software, load balancers, network service software, and more up to date seamlessly and without any effort - without taking you offline.

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A Single, Managed Control Plane

Multi-Region and Multi-Cloud

Cycle operates with a single, managed control plane. Containers can have instances deployed and networked automatically across multiple regions, data centers, and cloud providers out of the box.

Become Multi Cloud

The Leading Kubernetes Alternative

Tired of Kubernetes-Induced Stress?

Painful Updates And Dependencies

Managing Stateful Workloads

Finding Trustworthy Devops Talent

Multi-Region/On-Prem Complexity

A Complete Platform

Networking Automation That Works

Istio

Linkerd

Envoy

Traefik

Run Anywhere with Confidence

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

Puppet

Observability Included

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Jaeger

Purpose Built

Automatic, Seamless Updates

Multi-Region and Multi-Cloud

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