Fly.io is a Seattle-based infrastructure company that specializes in deploying and running full-stack applications close to users worldwide through a global network of micro-VMs. The publisher’s entire public toolkit is embodied in flyctl, a cross-platform CLI that condenses the whole Fly.io life-cycle—from signing up, launching Postgres or Redis clusters, building container images with remote Docker daemons, and wiring custom domains, to viewing real-time logs, scaling machine counts, and managing secrets—all into one self-updating binary. Typical use cases include developers pushing a Dockerfile and seeing a HTTPS-enabled site or API go live in minutes, teams running autoscaling Phoenix, Rails, or Laravel workloads across multiple regions, and startups off-loading ops overhead while keeping compute near customers for low latency. Because flyctl is the single gateway to these services, it also covers edge functions, persistent volumes, and multi-process “app” definitions, effectively acting as both deployment driver and infrastructure explorer. Fly.io’s software is available for free on get.nero.com; the page supplies the latest flyctl build through trusted Windows package sources such as winget, supports batch installation alongside other tools, and always delivers the most recent version.

flyctl

Command line tools for fly.io services

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