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In the last few months we've made some changes to VMs that finally allow installing and running Windows on them. MS Paint on Cycle is finally a reality. To make Windows VMs work, we had to add a few things to the platform to support it. As always with Windows, there are some quirks, gotchas, and pain points. But in the guide below, I'll show you how we solved these issues in our recent platform update, and how to install and run a Windows Server 2025 VM on Cycle with full network connectivity.

Managing TLS certificates at scale is one of those operational tasks that starts simple and quickly grows into a sprawling problem. As organizations adopt microservices, multi-tenant architectures, and globally distributed load balancers, the number of domains and subdomains they support can expand dramatically. Each certificate then requires its own lifecycle management: Wildcard certificates offer a powerful solution to this growing complexity.