The Cycle team is highly responsive and supportive, helping with new features and providing capabilities we need in time for when we need it!

Cycle's web GUI makes it very easy to use and accessible when managing container orchestration. Their staff has been great with continuous development of new and requested features as well as troubleshooting any bugs that appear.

Kubernetes solutions compete directly with Cycle. They both tackle the same space. So what is the difference? The difference is time. Kubernetes is the kitchen sink. To get moving on it, one must dedicate a significant initial spend in time and money by climbing the steep learning curve or hiring an expensive FTE to handle the details. This reality can be hard to swallow for a lean startup that wants to progress rapidly with deployments while ensuring that scale is there when the time comes. Cycle presents an attractive alternative. If you know how to build a docker image and not much else, you have everything you need to begin deploying your production and stage environments. Their UI is slick and approachable. The API that powers it is well-documented for your scripted use if required. The feature set contains all the essentials for a startup to go from zero to scale without the need for a full-time operations specialist.