FOR PUBLIC SECTOR
The Sovereign Internal Developer Portal and Platform
Public sector IT departments face a unique challenge: modernize infrastructure delivery without compromising sovereignty, compliance, or budget discipline. Cycloid gives your teams a turnkey Internal Developer Portal and Platform that runs where you need it – on-premises, dedicated SaaS, any cloud, or bare metal – so you never trade control for capability.
Public Sector IT
Under Pressure To Deliver More With Less
Government IT teams are caught between rising citizen expectations for digital services and the operational reality of legacy toolchains, siloed teams, and compliance mandates that slow everything down. Sound familiar?
Manual processes dominate
Environment provisioning takes days. Every infrastructure change becomes a ticket. Platform engineers spend more time approving requests than building platform capabilities. The bottleneck isn’t talent – it’s the operating model.
Governance exists only as review
Security, networking, and cost rules live in scattered policy documents and institutional memory. Enforcement depends on who reviews the change and what context they have in that moment. Two identical requests get different outcomes.
Shadow IT grows in the gaps
When the official process takes too long, developers go direct to cloud consoles. Unmanaged resources become compliance blind spots: inconsistent security configurations, incomplete audit trails, impossible cost allocation.
Cloud costs spiral without accountability
Budgets balloon, but nobody can explain why. Finance demands answers. Platform teams lack visibility into which departments, projects, or deployments drive spend. Emergency cost cuts disrupt active programs.
Sovereignty is non-negotiable
Public sector organizations must retain full control over where data lives, who accesses it, and how infrastructure is operated. Cloud-only platforms that force architectural compromises are simply not an option.
One Platform. Full Sovereignty.
Operational in Weeks.
Cycloid is a unified Internal Developer Portal and Platform purpose-built for organizations that need governance without gridlock, self-service without shadow IT, and cost visibility without complexity. It’s designed to work with your existing tools and infrastructure – not replace them.
Recognized as a European leader in the internal developer portal and platform space, Cycloid bridges the gap between DevOps, platform teams, developers, and FinOps/GreenOps - with sovereignty and sustainability at its core.
Why Public Sector Organizations Choose Cycloid
Sovereign by Design
Cycloid is a European-born, sovereign-by-design platform you can deploy self-hosted, air-gapped, on dedicated SaaS (AWS, Azure, GCP, Scaleway, OVH, Outscale), or bare metal. Governance scales without scaling headcount: Policy as Code, RBAC, approval workflows, and mandatory tagging reject non-compliant requests at submission time. StackForms let any team member self-serve infrastructure in minutes, no Terraform required.
Governance That Scales
Built-in FinOps and GreenOps give you cost estimation before every deployment, centralized cloud spend visibility, and carbon footprint tracking aligned to green procurement mandates. Cycloid is cloud-agnostic and open-source-founded, integrating with your existing Git providers, CI/CD tools, monitoring, and identity providers. Deliver 80% of best practices out of the box, operational in weeks, not years.
Deploy Cycloid Your Way
Deployment Model
How It Works
Best for
Data Residency
Cycloid has zero access post-deployment
Air-gapped environments, highest sovereignty requirements, classified workloads
Your network, your rules
Cycloid deploys and operates all modules on a dedicated cloud account you choose (AWS, Azure, GCP, Scaleway, OVH, Outscale)
Teams that want managed operations with infrastructure isolation
Your provider, your region
Control plane as SaaS, Concourse workers in your environment for workload proximity
Organizations that need application workloads close to on-prem systems
Control plane is managed
Fully managed by Cycloid. Fastest time to value
Teams prioritizing speed and minimal operational overhead
Cycloid-managed infrastructure. EU-hosted available
1.
Platform Teams Build the Service Catalog
Create reusable Stacks – pre-approved infrastructure templates that embed your organization’s security policies, compliance requirements, network rules, and cost boundaries. Use Infra Import to automatically generate Infrastructure as Code from existing manually-deployed resources, so you start from what you already have.
2.
Governance Is Enforced Automatically
InfraPolicies validate every deployment against your rules at submission time. RBAC scopes access by team and role. Quotas limit resource consumption. Approval workflows route sensitive changes to the right decision-makers. Untagged or non-compliant resources never get created.
3.
Developers Self-Serve Through StackForms
End-users select services from the catalog, customize options through intuitive forms, see cost and carbon estimates, and deploy – all without writing a line of Terraform. StackForms adapt: dropdown options filter based on previous selections, advanced fields display conditionally, and cloud accounts auto-complete via API.
4.
Everything Is Visible and Auditable
Asset Inventory tracks all resources across public and private clouds. InfraView provides a visual map of your entire infrastructure topology. Cloud Cost Management and Carbon Footprint modules deliver FinOps and GreenOps reporting. Complete audit trails log every action for compliance.
Public Sector Capabilities at a Glance
Sovereignty & Compliance
On-premises / air-gapped deployment
Dedicated SaaS on sovereign clouds
SSO/SAML (Okta, Entra ID, SAML 2.0)
RBAC with organizational scoping
Complete audit trails
Approval workflows
Multi-factor authentication
Policy as Code (InfraPolicies)
Self-Service & Developer Experience
StackForms self-service portal
Service catalog (Stacks)
Infra Import from existing resources
GitOps-first architecture
CI/CD orchestration (native + integrations)
Cost estimation before deployment
Multi-tenancy for departments
Plug-in extensibility
FinOps & GreenOps
Cloud Cost Estimation (pre-deploy)
Cloud Cost Management (cross-provider)
Cloud Carbon Footprint tracking
Asset Inventory with owner mapping
InfraView topology visualization
Custom pricing / ELA rate support
Quota management
Department-level cost allocation
Integration & Openness
AWS, Azure, GCP, VMware, bare metal
Sovereign clouds (Scaleway, OVH, Outscale)
GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket
Terraform, Ansible, Helm, ArgoCD
Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD
Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana
REST API (Swagger-documented)
MCP Server for AI/natural language
Ready to modernize
public sector IT delivery?
See how Cycloid gives your teams a sovereign, compliance-ready Internal Developer Portal and Platform – operational in weeks, not years. No vendor lock-in. No architectural compromises. Just a platform that makes your developers faster and your governance automatic.
