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Infrastructure Management: Containers vs Virtual Machines

Jun 17, 2025 By Chris Aubuchon In Cycle
Trends in tech come and go, but certain underlying primitives stick around forever. In software, two such primitives are virtual machines and containers. Virtualization paved the way for the cloud to become massive. Data centers would likely never have been commercially viable without it. While still relatively new, containerization has already made a serious mark on the software engineering world.
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Infrastructure Management: When to Pick Bare Metal or Virtualized Servers

Jun 11, 2025 By Chris Aubuchon In Cycle
Infrastructure management isn't about taking sides. Too often, teams get pulled into “X is better than Y” debates that miss the bigger picture: your compute stack should serve your needs, not industry hype. A common decision point in the past has been the choice between bare metal or cloud hyperscalar virtualization. Nowadays, the answer isn't 1 or 0.
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Top 5 Observability Tools DevOps Teams Should Know

Jun 5, 2025 By Konner Bemis In Cycle
Observability and monitoring are the cornerstone of resilient, high-performing applications. Nearly every IT or software engineering leader we come into contact with emphasizes the importance of the ability to understand and diagnose what is going on with their applications at all times. Having clear and concise visibility into your applications is no longer optional.
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Top 5 Modern CI/CD Tools in 2025

May 29, 2025 By Konner Bemis In Cycle
In the ever-growing ecosystem of infrastructure and software development, where tools like Kubernetes introduce complexity and hyperscalers welcome sprawl, it's more important to have your SDLC buttoned up and as efficient as possible. CI/CD, one of Cycle's noble sidekicks, is important in kicking off the SDLC, and having a tool that gets the job done without introducing extra complexity or constraint is paramount.
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Solving Infrastructure Challenges: Real Use Cases in On-Prem, Bare Metal, and Hybrid Environments

May 29, 2025 By Konner Bemis In Cycle
Bridging the gap between cloud agility and bare metal performance has always been a delicate dance of stakeholder priorities, time, and money. From the beginning, Cycle set out to be one of the best Kubernetes alternatives. We empower users, giving them autonomy to make crucial infrastructure decisions, instead of locking them into the control of hyperscalars or getting lost in bloated ecosystems.
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Our Biggest Platform Release in Years: Virtual Providers and Virtual Machines

May 14, 2025 By Jake Warner In Cycle
Cycle.io is taking a giant leap forward in 2025. Today, we're announcing the biggest platform release in years -- a release that catapults Cycle into a new era of hybrid infrastructure orchestration and cements its status as a true alternative to both Kubernetes and VMware. Now, with two massively impactful features: Virtual Providers and Virtual Machines.
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New Feature: Virtual Providers - Orchestrate Hybrid Infrastructure

May 14, 2025 By Cycle Platform In Cycle
Your Infrastructure. Your Cloud. Anywhere. Introducing Virtual Providers—a powerful new way to turn any server or VM into part of your Cycle-managed private cloud. With just a bootable ISO generated from the Cycle platform, you can instantly bring bare metal or virtual machines online—no matter where they live. Cloud, colo, on-prem, edge, or even a server sitting in a closet. Once connected, Cycle handles the provisioning, updates, networking, and orchestration automatically.
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NEW: Virtual Machines on Cycle

May 14, 2025 By Cycle Platform In Cycle
Run Anything, Anywhere — Now Including Virtual Machines Cycle just got even more powerful. In this video, we're announcing full support for virtual machine workloads on the Cycle platform. That means containers, functions, and now VMs—running side by side, managed through the same automation, networking, and orchestration engine. Whether it's bare metal in a colo, VMs on a cloud provider, or hardware in a homelab, Cycle brings it all together into one global private cloud.
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Introducing Server Nicknames

Apr 29, 2025 By Konner Bemis In Cycle
This past week we released the simple yet widely requested feature Server Nicknames, the ability to easily track and manage various servers with unique custom names. At first glance this may seem like a non update but not when you consider that most Cycle users are connecting many servers from multiple providers and locations in the cloud and on premises. With long default server names, this is a huge quality of life improvement.
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The Top 4 Kubernetes Misconfigurations You Can Avoid on Cycle

Apr 22, 2025 By Chris Aubuchon In Cycle
Most cloud infrastructure and deployment misconfigurations start innocently enough: a dev under pressure to ship quickly tweaks a configuration file or adjusts a permission setting to make something work. It's not malicious and it might even be well thought out, but these small changes can cause a cascade of reactions that bring down production in seconds.
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