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Deploying Containers on Bare Metal

Need extreme performance or physical separation for your workloads? Cycle enables seamless deployments to bare metal infrastructure, whether your servers are on-premises or in a colocation data center.

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The Benefits of Bare Metal

Lose the Virtualization Overhead

Raw Performance

Bare metal deployments offer unmatched performance by allowing your applications to run directly on hardware. This provides optimal speed and efficiency for demanding workloads.

Maximum Security for Workloads

Physical Isolation

With bare metal, your workloads are fully isolated from others, providing a secure and dedicated environment. This physical separation reduces the risk of interference or vulnerabilities from shared infrastructure.

Utilize All Your Resources

Increased Application Density

Maximize the number of applications running on your hardware with bare metal’s efficient resource usage. This leads to higher application density and improved cost-effectiveness.

Deploy Containers on Raw Compute

The Cycle Difference

From the first line of code, Cycle was built to consume only raw compute, with no additional managed-services required. This early approach perfectly positions Cycle for pooling bare metal servers for creating your own cloud.

Simplified Provisioning

Cycle streamlines server deployment with a standardized API, eliminating many of the manual configuration steps typically involved in provisioning new bare metal infrastructure.
Purpose-Built Operating System

CycleOS, a lightweight operating system, was purpose-built for running container-based applications while retaining the smallest potential attack surface.
Automatic Updates

New platform features, kernel updates, and more -- Cycle ensures your nodes are always up-to-date.
Effortless Networking

As servers are added to clusters, Cycle automatically performs a number of reachability tests to configure, secure, and scale network connections between nodes.

A Purpose-Built Operating System for Containers

Dive into CycleOS

CycleOS, a lightweight operating system, was purpose-built for running container-based applications while retaining the smallest potential attack surface. Additionally, CycleOS was designed to align with Cycle's model of frequent automatic updates.

Since CycleOS is never installed to disk, each node must authorize, download, and initialize CycleOS via IPXE at boot time -- with no further manual configuration needed. Cycle will automatically configure storage, networking, and more.

Less to Learn, More to See

One Control Plane, Better Visibility.

Cycle's Portal gives teams a clear view of both your infrastructure and containers, regardless of where they're deployed.

Provision infrastructure, create environments, deploy containers, and more. Gain visibility into everyting from resource usage to traffic flows, without requiring third party integrations.

The Cycle platform also includes a powerful API, along with automation pipelines, enabling teams to build the workflows they desire.

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