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Cycle's Hosted MCP Release Announcement

We are stoked to announce that we have released our very own hosted MCP that allows you to use natural language to interact with and control anything you have running on Cycle.io. Alexander Mattoni, CTO and co-founder of Cycle, shares a few scenarios where the MCP can be useful. With the MCP, Cycle users can communicate with the Cycle platform directly from their preferred AI tool. In minutes, users can provision a new server, deploy an application, or troubleshoot an issue directly from their AI assistant like Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT or Codex.

Cycle and Cherry Servers Webinar: Sovereign Bare Metal with Cloud Simplicity

Cycle teamed up with bare metal service provider Cherry Servers to discuss how rising political tension and controversy involving the United States is pushing many European organisations to take a closer look at where their data is hosted and handled. Many companies have been forced to look into alternative options to ensure their data is not hosted in or accessible by anyone outside of Europe.

Cycle achieves SOC 2 Type 1: Strengthening our commitment to data security and system availability

Cycle recently went through a System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2 Type 1 audit and we've got the report. It’s an important step in our continuous commitment to data security and system availability. But are we just checking boxes for the sake of boxes or is there more behind it?

Exploring Cron Function Containers

Function containers on Cycle have always been the efficient way to run batch jobs and workloads, with far more customization than traditional FaaS or serverless. What they couldn't do was run themselves. Over the past year, team after team told us the same thing: they wanted these functions on a schedule without standing up and babysitting a cron service. As of this release, Cycle fully supports CRON scheduled function containers.

Our Newest Infrastructure Partner: Cherry Servers

We're thrilled to announce that we've added Cherry Servers, a European infrastructure provider, as another native integration to the Cycle platform. With this integration, Cycle clients have more choice in where, and how, they deploy their applications as Cherry offers a variety of bare metal server configurations across 7 data centers located around the globe. For a more formal announcement, please see our joint press release with Cherry Servers.

Top Kubernetes Alternatives in 2026.

Key Takeaways In modern software delivery the pressure to iterate quickly is real. Kubernetes sparked a revolution in container orchestration, and it remains a huge forward step for many teams. But the truth is, adopting Kubernetes is not a guarantee that you'll suddenly move faster or reduce pain. Managing a Kubernetes cluster at scale requires deep expertise, dedicated operations, and often more overhead than many organizations anticipate. This has led many companies to explore Kubernetes alternatives.

Should you self-host your Git repos? We are, and here's why.

Git is decentralized by design, yet most organizations have funneled their entire source of truth (repositories, CI triggers, access control, release tooling) onto one third-party platform that nobody on the team operates or can inspect. That concentration was a fair trade when self-hosting meant adding massive capex overhead, but with modern architectures and platforms, that's no longer the case.

Introducing Cycle's European Control Plane: Strict data sovereignty, lower latencies, and more

We're thrilled to announce that Cycle's European Control Plane is now live! While a few organizations have been utilizing it over the past month, we're eager to officially open access to all teams. Before diving deeper into the "why," let's clarify what a Cycle Control Plane actually is. If you visit our status page, you'll see a list of the core services powering Cycle. These services include everything from our APIs to our 'factory' build systems.