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When should you adopt Platform Engineering?

If you’ve not been living under a rock for the last year and a half, chances are you’ve heard of...

New ESRS: A Roadmap for Sustainable Cloud Reporting

On July 31st, 2023 the European Commission announced new sustainability reporting in the European...

Governance and security: finding the sustainability sweet spot

What makes a successful and sustainable platform engineering portal? Is it the level of...

How to build developer self-service your team will use

Build it and they will come. That’s the idea, right? But you may have realised, perhaps through a...

The future: modern infra as the foundation to platform engineering

Modernizing your infrastructure could take many forms. Artificial intelligence, GreenOps, FinOps,...

What is sustainable platform engineering?

If you’re hanging around the Cycloid website, chances are you’re familiar with platform engineering...

Migrating infra to IaC is a business imperative: Infra Import Use Case

Imagine this: you’re looking to scale your infrastructure to match your rapid business growth....

Developer self-service: your key to adopting Platform Engineering!

Wider teams are resisting adopting an internal developer platform, and platform engineers are...

Cloud Cost Optimization: best practices for reducing your cloud bill

The tech industry is not having a great time at the moment. The 5 US tech giants – Microsoft,...

7 Platform Engineering KPIs you should be tracking

Platform engineering is becoming an increasingly popular approach to software delivery because it...

Cloud Carbon Footprint: a GreenOps + FinOps approach to cloud waste

Cycloid is proud to present Cloud Carbon Footprint, our own cloud carbon emissions module...

Enabling developer self-service in Kubernetes

Platform engineering is taking the IT world by storm. We’re seeing articles claiming that platform...

Cloud carbon footprint: measures to take

COP27 took place in Egypt last month, the latest in the series of conferences that bring the global...

Platform Engineering is DevOps with an action plan

If you’ve been around Cycloid socials, you’ll know that we’ve had a quiet change of name - from...

Why the world needs GreenOps

With COP27 just around the corner, the world is once again set to come together to try to find a...

How Cycloid facilitates your DevOps upskilling program

Amidst the Great Resignation, DevOps talent shortage and the looming global economic crisis,...

Why are MSPs embracing internal developer platforms?

“Adapt or become irrelevant!” is the motto of digital and IT transformation. Just as IT...

KubeConEU 2022 - Day 3

This is the last article on KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022! After mentioning confidential...

KubeConEU 2022 - Day 2

In article two of three, we'll focus on the second day of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 in...

KubeConEU 2022 - Day 1

Upskilling Report 2022- our predictions and actual results

At the start of 2022 and ahead of the DevOps Institute's 2022 Upskilling Report, we made some...

Does DevX spell the end of DevOps? - Roundtable notes with Benjamin Brial

Developer experience (DevX) is becoming a hot topic and, in 2023, one that tech and non-tech...

Optimizing the management of hybrid multi-cloud

A suitably designed, integrated and managed hybrid cloud ecosystem can be as secure and efficient...

Cloud cost management - FinOps just got built-in!

Cycloid's delighted to launch their cloud cost management module, the next iteration of Cost...

Cloud migration and hybrid cloud: questions to ask before you start

Ok, there’s one thing we need to state clearly before we begin. This article isn’t going to tell...

Is Hybrid Cloud right for your business?

Let’s be honest - if you’ve clicked on this article, you’re still not entirely convinced about...

Cycloid at Tech Rocks Summit 2021: the last event of a successful year!

To end the year on a high note after participating in events such as DevOps D-Day, and DevOpsCon...

DevOpsCon Munich 2021: 100% online, 100% smart!

After the success at DevOps D-Day in France a few weeks ago, the Cycloid team continued to conquer...

DevOps Institute Upskilling IT Survey - what’s in stock for 2022?

Voice your opinion in the DevOps Institute Upskilling IT survey and enter to win a $100 Amazon gift...

Cycloid at DevOps D-Day 2021: What We Did and What We Learned

This year Cycloid was happy to participate once again in DevOps D-Day - a one-day event in...

Tick-tock goes the FinOps clock: introducing Cost Estimation

We know that to truly thrive in today’s business environment, you need agility. That means giving...

Value stream mapping - the right choice for every DevOps-first org?

Value stream management. If you’ve spent any time on the internet as part of your job in DevOps, it...

Rapidly industrialize your legacy deployments with Infra Import

TL;DR Infra Import, launched last week, marks an important milestone in the ability to use Cycloid...

Why is it so difficult to hire for DevOps?

DevOps professionals are in demand. It’s not surprising when you think about it. DevOps is often...

CTO of Hotel Spider, Yannick Blondeau, talks DevOps business value

We sent our latest ebook, DevOps Business Value: Prove it or Lose it to Yannick Blondeau, CTO of...

Biz team versus dev team - is DevOps the best path to harmony?

Ever feel that when it comes to the way the executive team and your tech team see success, they are...

Why is DevOps such a hard sell? - interview with Benjamin Brial

According to the 2021 State of DevOps Report, 80% of organizations are failing to scale DevOps...

DevOps keeps the bus factor high (and the leather pants factor low!)

A while back, I wrote an ebook to help people work on the one part of the DevOps puzzle you can't...

The Inside Story: Terraform Module Handling

Francesc, a backend developer here at Cycloid and talented maintainer of TerraCognita, tells us...

The Inside Story: Roles & Policies

Nikola, a front end developer here at Cycloid, tells us what led to our recent shake up of Roles &...

Dynamically adding and removing dedicated Concourse workers

Here at Cycloid, we use open-source pipeline engine Concourse in Kubernetes. Over time, we noticed...

DevOps thinking and the Ikea factor

I wrote an ebook series about creating better DevOps teams recently and had a lot of fun. I also...

Cycloid's 2020 in review...

Announcing InfraPolicies - and a surprise!

We've taken our first steps into a new year and it is a new year from which we are expecting a lot....

What are InfraPolicies?

InfraPolicies (infrastructure policies) are an implementation of Policy as Code. They provide...

Containerized applications on serverless platforms

At Cycloid, we developed Inframap: a command line interface (CLI) used to generate graphs from...

Creating a better on-call culture in your tech team

This article has been updated and enriched for February 2022 Tech products play a crucial role in...

Cycloid CLI: keeping everyone happy at the Cycloid table

We’re coming out of the summer holidays and straight into an autumn/fall of maximum productivity...

Helping diverse teams work better together

People, processes, tools. You’ve heard it before, but this time, I want you to REALLY consider it....

Does DevOps help or hinder shadow IT?

Shadow IT is... “any technology (application, person, or device) deployed within an organization...

Cycloid and the open source community

Today, as part of our birthday series, we're taking a look at Cycloid's relationship with open...

InfraMap - the awesome open-source cloud diagram maker that's going to save YOU time

You’ve heard of InfraView, right? Now we’d like to introduce you to InfraMap, our open-source,...

StackForms: ease of use for users, total control for you

Well, our devs keep coming up with new features, meaning my fingers are really going to need a...

Canceling an event - experience sharing and lessons learned from a fail

It's probably happened to every company at least once. Here at Cycloid, we are experiencing what...

The Cycloid European harmonization project - a long name for a cool concept

One of the things you accept when you’re a freelancer is that, along with the freedom and ability...

What is InfraView?

Visibility and accessibility are key factors when it comes to efficient software development....

The first-ever Cycloid hackathon

What are you doing Monday? Monday, June 29th 2020 that is? We’re inaugurating a brave new world of...

Infrastructure as code: Cycloid's non-boring guide for the clueless

If you’ve recently moved into the world of DevOps and hybrid cloud, or are thinking of it, you’ll...

5 posts for 5 years of doing DevOps differently

In April 2020, Cycloid turned 5. In the midst of corona-madness, we celebrated the fact that in the...

Remote working? We're old hands at Cycloid

This article has been updated for January 2022 Can you remember the time 2 years ago when you would...

What is TerraCognita?

TerraCognita is a key part of Cycloid. We call it our "reverse Terraform" and we're going to show...

The Croix-Rouge Française tackles planning in the time of coronavirus

Today, we want to show you how Cycloid is currently being used in a situation that is pretty...

The Cycloid pipeline: new features to make it even more useful than before

The pipeline is a core element of your stack and, in conjunction with infrastructure as code and...

A Cycloid offer that might be the chance your business needs to thrive

When coronavirus broke out - or coronageddon, as I like to call it - Cycloid quickly decided to...

A teal organization in a DevOps world

Tonight was supposed to be a big night for the Cycloid team. We turn 5 today and, unlike other...

InfraView: ever wish your colleagues understood your infra better?

Distributed teams, collaborative tools, democratic access to the CI/CD pipeline... They're all...

The Cycloid origin story - people, process, tools

The DevOps triad - people, process, and tools - sounds simple, but it's infinitely more complicated...

2019 key releases and early 2020 upcoming feature

First of all: our best wishes for 2020, including exciting DevOps projects! Early January is a good...