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Cycle.io @ KubeCon 2022: Bringing a K8s alternative to the masses!

Detroit, known by its nickname “Motor City'', is a bustling and beautiful city filled with dazzling architecture, food, history, and of course, people.This year, it was home to KubeCon 2022. The city is close to home for Jake and I, 45 minutes from where we started Cycle; it was wonderful seeing how the city has grown the last few years. The art deco style buildings loomed overhead, and the smell of freshly cooked food wafted through the downtown area just outside the venue.

Zero To One: Github Actions On Cycle

Github’s, “Github Actions” CI/CD tooling is becoming an increasingly popular option for developers. I've personally worked with several Cycle users who are adopting Github Actions as part of their deployment solution and we've found that when pairing GH actions with Cycle it makes for a simple, yet powerful combination. Today we’ll stroll through a basic example of using Github Actions alongside the Cycle platform.

Cycle Podcast | EP 15 | Darren Shepherd | The State of Running Containers in the Wild

In this episode, Jake Warner chats with Darren Shepherd, co-founder of Rancher Labs, and more recently, Acorn.io. Together, Darren and Jake, discuss the current ecosystem around container orchestration and dive into some of the flaws that exist with how applications are packaged and deployed today. Darren has spent his career writing orchestration systems, first in the IaaS space and then Docker and Kubernetes. He is best known for co-founding Rancher Labs and creating such projects as Rancher, Longhorn, k3s, and many others.

Need a GPU For Your Next App? Cycle Has Your Back!

After months in development, we are thrilled to announce the launch of Cycle.io's support for NVIDIA GPUs (Beta). Combined with an already powerful platform that enables developers to focus on building, rather than managing, the addition of GPUs will further empower the development of accelerated applications which require a higher level of compute power.

Building World Class Solutions Together

With the launch of the Cycle Partner Program, we are committing to making it easier for companies to work with Cycle by creating more transparent and predictable relationships, offering training, resources, incentives, and benefits, some of which will roll out over time as the program evolves. Interested in partnering with Cycle? Contact our partner lead to schedule a meeting.

It's Time for a Straight-Forward Pricing Model

Today, we’re excited to announce the release of Cycle’s new pricing model! With this new model, we aim to make our pricing far more straightforward and better suited for larger deployments and customers. While our current pricing model solved the needs of our customers for the last few years, we’ve learned enough that it’s now time to make a change. Before talking about the new model, let’s dive into how we got here.

Cycle Podcast | EP 14 | Derek Distenfield | Introducing GSD.dev: Connect Startups w/ DevOps Teams

In this episode, Jake Warner chats with Derek Distenfield, co-founder of GSD Venture Studios. From an introduction to GSD’s Venture Studio and Global Accelerator to a big announcement about a new partnership with Cycle, Jake and Derek dive into the world of building startups -- without suffering from the lack of DevOps experience.

Announcing Cycle.io's Partnership with GSD Venture Studios

We've made it our mission to reduce technical debt in the future of cloud computing, and our partners are helping us make that mission a reality. Today, we’re excited to announce that one of the world's leading Venture Studios, GSD Venture Studios, has chosen Cycle.io as the underlying platform for their new on-demand DevOps service, GSD.dev.

A Recession Is Inevitable. Are Your Cloud Deployments and Development Teams Ready?

The recent market turmoil has everyone from developers to CTOs and founders asking themselves a fundamental question “Is our cloud-deployment strategy recession proofs, and if not, how can we adapt to the new market realities?” Within enterprises of all sizes, leaders are asking hard questions, looking for ways to cut costs without negatively impacting growth.

Cycle Podcast | EP 13 | Derek Chamorro | Next Gen Hardware Security + Insights on Internet Attacks

Derek's Links: Derek is a Staff Engineer at Cloudflare and has over 17 years of experience in designing security frameworks at scale. His main focus is on research and development within infrastructure and cloud security. He currently holds multiple patents in the fields of security, key management, and blockchain.