The Fly CLI

Developers operate Fly using the CLI, it's the primary user interface for deploying and managing Fly applications. The flyctl help command has a list of available subcommands.

To get started, install flyctl, then try deploy a new application and see what's running.

Installation

If you're on a Mac, you can install the CLI with Homebrew:

brew install superfly/tap/flyctl

For other systems, use the install script:

curl https://get.fly.io/flyctl.sh | sh

Deploy an application

• flyctl auth login # login as you
• flyctl apps create --builder node # create a node app
• flyctl info # see app info

Status and logs

• flyctl status # see what's running where
• flyctl logs # tail logs

Command Reference

• flyctl apps - manage apps
• flyctl auth - manage authentication
• flyctl builds - interact with builds
• flyctl certs - manage certificates
• flyctl dbs - manage databases
• flyctl deploy - deploy a local image, remote image, or Dockerfile
• flyctl history - list app change history
• flyctl info - show detailed app information
• flyctl init - initialize a fly.toml file from an app
• flyctl logs - view app logs
• flyctl releases - list app releases
• flyctl secrets - manage app secrets
• flyctl status - show app status
• flyctl version - show flyctl version information