Fly.io Extension

Fly.io extension is a deployment extension that you can use to deploy your application to Fly.io machine.

Configuration

In order to deploy your application to Fly.io, you need to create an account on the Fly.io website. After creating an account, you can create a new application on the Fly.io dashboard.

Or you can install and manage you app via the CLI by following the instructions on the Fly.io website

Settings

From either fly cli or the fly.io dashboard, you need to obtain the API token and set the secrets on the Fly.io machine.

• First, login to your Fly.io account:

fly auth login

• Then, create a new app:

fly apps create <app-name>
# fly apps create awesome-app

Environment Variables

You can set the Fly.io application secrets(environment variables) on the following URL:

https://fly.io/apps/<app-name>/secrets

where <app-name> is the name of the Fly.io application.
example: https://fly.io/apps/awesome-app/secrets

Or via the Fly.io CLI:

flyctl secrets set CONNECTION_STRING="postgres://user:password@host:port/dbname"

Build Variables

The following variables are required to deploy your application to Fly.io:

FLY_APP_NAME=The name of the Fly.io application.

FLY_API_TOKEN=The API token to authenticate with Fly.io.

FLY_APP_NAME: The fly.io app name.

FLY_API_TOKEN: You can obtain the API token from the Fly.io dashboard or via the Fly.io CLI.

Using CLI

fly tokens create deploy -a <app-name>

Using Dashboard

https://fly.io/dashboard/<account-name>/tokens

Deploy

Make sure you have the required environment variables set on the Fly.io machine. Then, you can deploy your application to Fly.io by committing the changes to the repository.

Once environment variables are set and changes are committed, the project will be reachable at the following URL:

https://<app-name>.fly.dev/

# example: https://awesome-app.fly.dev/