Blogs Archive - Page 2 of 13

Customer Success Stories: How Teams Use Cycloid to Accelerate Platform Engineering

blog post vignette for Alchemy customer story

Cycloid customers have achieved measurable platform engineering outcomes: reduced environment provisioning time from days to under 2 hours, eliminated 40-70% of ops ticket volume through developer self-service, and improved DORA metrics (deployment frequency, MTTR) after IDP adoption. MSP teams using Cycloid manage 10-50 client environments from a single control plane with per-client RBAC and automated … Read more

CMP Portal for MSPs: The Practical Guide to Multi-Tenant Cloud Management (2026)

By the Cycloid Platform Engineering team, practitioners building and operating enterprise IDPs since 2015. A CMP portal (Cloud Management Portal) is a web-based platform that gives MSPs and engineering teams centralised control over cloud resources across multiple providers, accounts, and client environments – covering provisioning, governance, cost visibility, and compliance from a single interface. … Read more

The State of Cloud-Native Platforms for Modern Data Management in 2026

By the Cycloid Platform Engineering team, practitioners building and operating enterprise IDPs since 2015. In 2026, cloud-native platforms for modern data management are organised across four layers: the IDP layer (Cycloid, Backstage, Port), data pipeline platforms (Databricks, dbt, Snowflake), cloud-native storage (Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, Hudi), and observability (Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Grafana). According to the CNCF 2024 survey, over … Read more

API Portals: A Hands-On Guide for Building Self-Service API Platforms (2026)

API portals are developer-facing interfaces that expose APIs – with documentation, authentication, access controls, and usage tracking – enabling developers to discover and consume APIs without platform team involvement. They fall into two types: external API portals (exposing product APIs to third-party developers via Kong, Apigee, Stoplight) and internal API portals (exposing IaC automation APIs … Read more

Best Practices for Using Jenkins in Enterprise Environments (2026 Guide)

By the Cycloid Platform Engineering team, practitioners building and operating enterprise IDPs since 2015. Direct Answer. The 8 best practices for Jenkins in enterprise environments are: (1) use declarative pipelines over scripted, (2) govern shared libraries with versioning and approval, (3) organise pipelines with folder-based hierarchy, (4) implement Jenkins-as-code (Configuration as Code plugin), (5) add … Read more

Sustainable Platform Engineering: Definition, Framework, and Tools for 2026

By the Cycloid GreenOps team, practitioners building carbon-aware platform engineering since 2015. Sustainable platform engineering is the practice of building and operating cloud platforms in a way that minimises environmental impact – reducing energy consumption, carbon emissions, and hardware waste while maintaining engineering velocity. It extends FinOps practices (cost optimisation) to include carbon metrics … Read more

Cloud Carbon Footprint: How to Measure, Track, and Reduce Your Cloud Emissions (2026)

By the Cycloid GreenOps team, practitioners building carbon-aware platform engineering since 2015. A cloud carbon footprint is the total CO2-equivalent emissions generated by an organisation’s cloud infrastructure – including compute, storage, networking, and the embodied carbon of underlying hardware. It is measured using the Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) standard from the Green Software Foundation: SCI … Read more

Features of Internal Developer Portals: The Complete Checklist (2026)

By the Cycloid Platform Engineering team, practitioners building and operating enterprise IDPs since 2015. Direct Answer. The core features of an internal developer portal are: (1) a service catalog for service and template discovery; (2) self-service provisioning with IaC-backed templates; (3) role-based access control (RBAC) for governance; (4) IaC integration (Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi, Ansible); (5) … Read more

What Is Cloud Provisioning? Definition, Approaches & Tools (2026)

By the Cycloid Platform Engineering team, practitioners building and operating enterprise IDPs since 2015. Last updated: Q1 2026 – Refreshed with the 3 provisioning approaches, current tools comparison, and IDP-native positioning. Cloud provisioning is the automated process of setting up and configuring cloud infrastructure resources – virtual machines, containers, databases, networks, and storage – … Read more