Fly.io

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Setup

brew install flyctl

fly help

fly auth login

fly docs

Concepts

• Fly Machines
  • Ephemeral
• Dockerfile for undetectable build/frameworks
• Remote Builders: machines that build apps when deploying without a local Docker daemon or when using --remote-only. Free
• [fly.toml]: configuration center and primary at build time.
• Fly Volumes
  • Slice of reserved NVMe disk storage
  • Attached to Fly Machine
• LiteFS

First

git clone https://github.com/fly-apps/hello-fly.git
cd hello-fly
fly launch --now

Name must be globally unique.

fly apps open (in repo).

Urls are supported with open: fly apps open /chan

LiteFS

Reference docs

• Create LiteFS Cloud cluster