Recently I've had the great privilege of working on creating a distributed WordPress deployment that leverages GCP compute and services alongside containers running on the Cycle platform. This blog dives into a bit of the history of why WordPress is difficult to deploy in a distributed way, how we approached it, some really interesting things we found, and finally, the solution we put in place.

We are thrilled to announce that Cycle was named a Cool Vendor in the 2024 Gartner Cool Vendors in Container Management research. For Gartner clients, you can find the full research here. “When we started Cycle a decade ago, we knew it would be a constant battle in the war of functionality versus simplicity. While it's a challenge to build a platform that has all the features organizations want, it's even more difficult to accomplish that functionality without introducing extra complexity.