Akuity Platform vs Cyclops

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Cyclops is a free, self-hosted web interface for managing Kubernetes clusters. It turns configuration into forms for deploying applications, while its dashboard summarizes cluster health, performance and resource use across pods, nodes, deployments and services. Users can create and update deployments, change replica counts, configure rolling updates and monitor progress. Teams can reuse versioned parameterized YAML templates, import Helm configuration and draw templates from GitHub, Helm chart or OCI repositories. Cyclops can also use Helm templates to build its new-module form and helps catch configuration problems before production. It installs into a Kubernetes cluster; setup requires a cluster and kubectl, with installation documented through kubectl or Glasskube. By default it can manage resources across the cluster, though installation can limit access to one namespace. In that mode, non-namespaced resources such as nodes and persistent volumes are not visible, and operations on them can fail. The cyctl command-line tool can manage Cyclops resources, initialize the product and start its UI. The maker also offers professional support and onboarding topics including workflow integration and custom-template creation.