We built Cycle because, as developers, we were frustrated by the tools out there. Everything was either too basic to run anything serious, or so complex that it turned into a daily distraction of maintenance and upkeep.
Cycle consumes raw compute and storage to deliver a provider-agnostic experience on any infrastructure, from bare-metal to public cloud. We automate the low-level complexity of networking, OS patching, and state management, so teams get a consistent deployment experience anywhere.
// RUN ANYTHING
From standard APIs to complex AI inference. If it runs in a container, it runs on Cycle.
// UNIVERSAL COMPATIBILITY
Cycle is provider-agnostic. Even if we don't natively support a provider, teams can provision any infrastructure that supports a bootable ISO or iPXE.
Each control plane is deployed across multiple infrastructure providers spanning numerous countries.
Your infrastructure should be your own. We give teams the freedom to choose exactly where your data lives and how your applications are deployed, without provider lock-in.
Stop fighting infrastructure and DevOps processes. We built Cycle to automate the day-two operations that burn out teams, so your builders can focus on building.
Automatically encrypted networks across any provider or region. Workloads & applications communicate securely and instantly, without any human involvement.
Automated OS patching, kernel updates, and self-healing. CycleOS proves a fully atomic, and minimal, operating system built for modern infrastructure. Experience a fully-managed platform on your own infrastructure.
Engineering teams, from around the world, use Cycle to run mission-critical workloads, without the overhead of maintaining legacy orchestration tools.
More than 2/3rds of the teams that have adopted Cycle previously used Kubernetes in production before switching to Cycle.
"Cycle has been a breath of fresh air after spending nearly a decade running (and fixing!) Kubernetes on-prem. Networking, storage, and container orchestration are elegantly implemented. The best part is that more of our team can have a hand in day-to-day operations."
"We were in the middle of drafting a job post for a DevOps engineer to help manage our complex Kubernetes clusters when we decided to give Cycle a try instead. Now we're pushing over a billion hits a day, and the platform hasn't missed a beat"
Cycle was developed for teams building real products and services. Today, our load balancers process over 150 million requests per hour, handling automatic TLS termination, WAF rules, and latency-sensitive traffic routing.
Since Cycle opened for customers, the control plane has been responsible for orchestrating the deployment of almost 5 million containers.
"We moved one of our platforms to AWS and didn't want to use Kubernetes. Nor did we want to make a bunch of DevOps decisions on which bundle of tools to use with it. With Cycle, we gained a streamlined PaaS that enabled us to move faster from day one."
Cycle's EU Control Plane is here. European teams can now keep their data in Europe, work with noticeably lower latency, and stay in full control of where everything runs.
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Cycle now runs on two fully isolated control planes (EU and NA) giving teams stronger data sovereignty, lower latency to region-local servers, and timezone-aware updates that land during off-peak hours. This release also makes restart and power-off events more reliable under heavy load by switching them to acknowledgements, and fixes VM hostname resolution so updated hostnames resolve correctly via discovery.
