Cycle vs. VMware vSphere Kubernetes Services (VKS)
A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.
| Metric | Cycle | VMware vSphere Kubernetes Services (VKS) |
|---|---|---|
| Overall rating | 5.0 | 4.1 |
| Review count | 17 | 63 |
| Ease of use | 9.4 | 8.1 |
| Ease of setup | 9.5 | 7.7 |
| Quality of support | 9.9 | 8.3 |
| Meets requirements | 9.4 | 8.5 |
| NPS | 100 | 38.709677 |
| Small Business | 94.1% | 41.0% |
| Mid-Market | 5.9% | 31.1% |
| Enterprise | 0.0% | 27.9% |
| Total page views | 57 | 325 |
| Total LLM citations | 164 | 44 |
Cycle
The platform for building platforms. Cycle.io is a hosted DevOps control plane that enables organizations to deploy, orchestrate, and manage workloads across on-prem bare metal, colocation, and public cloud environments from a unified interface. As a complete solution, Cycle simplifies infrastructure operations by providing automated provisioning, networking, and orchestration for both containers and virtual machines, without requiring teams to maintain complex set ups or third-party orchestration layers.
- Integrations
- Scalability
- Setup Ease
- Customer Support
- Features
VMware vSphere Kubernetes Services (VKS)
VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) is the CNCF-certified Kubernetes runtime built directly into VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), to run all apps. VKS is among the first platforms certified under the new CNCF Kubernetes AI Conformance Program. VKS enables platform engineers to easily deploy, manage and scale Kubernetes clusters while leveraging a comprehensive set of cloud services included in VCF, as well as all CNCF-conformant third party services.