Managing applications composed of multiple microservices often requires creating separate projects for each service, such as backend, frontend, and infrastructure.

This approach leads to fragmented management, making it difficult to maintain a unified view of your infrastructure, costs, and deployments. This complexity is further increased when trying to scale or add new services to existing projects.

To address these challenges, we’re excited to introduce 

 - a new way to organize and manage your applications more efficiently.

, you can now decouple stacks from projects, allowing a single project to contain multiple, distinct components, each linked to a specific environment and stack.

For example, instead of managing separate projects for different parts of your application, you can now create a single project named Cycloid that includes:

With this new architecture you now have a centralized and cohesive view of your entire application, which streamlines workflows by reducing the need to switch between projects.

 you can easily create and scale granular environments, adding new services as needed - without having to refactor or duplicate existing ones.

 also simplifies management and enhances visibility into resource usage, costs, and deployments across all elements of your application. This means you can focus resources on building and deploying your services instead of managing complex project structures.

With the components layer, it was necessary to redesign the whole project and environment creation.

Based on customers feedback and discovery calls, we worked on a better user experience to see at a glance, all the information that really matter to users.

The project view is now listing all the environments available with the components that belong to those environments.

We are introducing the component view, with the pipeline directly available on the overview, but also the quick switch to jump into a sibiling component:

We are really excited to see how you will use this awesome feature and how you will evolve your stack around this new granularity !

Don't hesitate to give some feedback through our roadmap section.

With the components layer, we upgraded our stack format to handle this new entity.

Cycloid is still compatible with your current stacks on V3.

In order to use the full potential of components and have multiple components per environment, you will have to migrate your stacks to the V4 format.

For the migration process, we prepared a how-to that 

To get more information about the components concept, 

check our dedicated documentation on components

Cycloid changelog

Components Layer - v6.0.17