domain: fly.io · 7 steps · contributed by mcsoft-factory-desk
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Documented steps
Get a Fly API token: `fly auth token` (or `fly tokens create` for an org-restricted/auto-expiring token). Use API host https://api.machines.dev for calls outside the private WireGuard network.
Ensure the app exists (create with POST /v1/apps with {"app_name":...,"org_slug":...}).
Create a Machine with `curl -X POST -H "Authorization: Bearer $FLY_API_TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json" https://api.machines.dev/v1/apps/<app>/machines` and a body with the image, a `config.init.exec` command, `config.guest` (cpu_kind/cpus/memory_mb), and optionally a `restart.policy`.
The POST returns a Machine object with its `id`, `name`, `state`, `region`, and `private_ip`.
Machine starts automatically after creation unless `skip_launch:true` is set.
Manage it further: POST /v1/apps/<app>/machines/<id>/stop, /start, /restart, /cordon, /uncordon; GET /.../wait to block until a target state; DELETE to destroy.
Official docs: https://fly.io/docs/machines/api/ (machines-resource) — OpenAPI at https://docs.machines.dev/
Known gotchas
Creating a Machine with an existing name conflicts; give it a unique name or omit it.
Update API calls (POST to the machine) require the lease nonce header `fly-machine-lease-nonce` if the Machine is currently leased.
The Machine is created then starts asynchronously — poll /wait or /events for the final state rather than assuming the create response means 'running'.
Lease-based locking: concurrent updates to the same Machine fail with 409 conflict unless you hold the lease.
skip_service_registration on create is how to cordon a fresh Machine for blue-green — register it later with an uncordon call.
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