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Fly Pre-requisites

Pre-requisites

There are some things we need to do before we get started though.

note

If deploying via Terminal on a Mac be sure that you have granted Terminal Full Disk Access rights

Fly.io Account

Create an account with fly.io. Although you are required to enter payment details, everything we do here will work on the free tier and you won't be charged.

Flyctl tool installation

  1. Open up PowerShell on your local machine and paste the following command into the window:

    iwr https://fly.io/install.ps1 -useb | iex
  2. Flyctl should start installing

  3. Once done you should get a message saying Run flyctl --help to get started:

Flyctl is now installed.