The November Fly Changelog

Summary

The November 2020 Fly changelog records new example applications, Fly CLI enhancements, and platform updates. Guides now cover Gogs, MQTT with Mosquitto, MinIO, Node-RED, and Redis with and without TLS, and demonstrate preview persistent Volumes for database persistence, data storage, preserved programming state, and queued messages. The CLI added bulk secret imports from key=value files, including multiline values enclosed in triple double quotes, while list commands gained filtering, sorting, and JSON output; the Deno builtin added a Version setting defaulting to 1.5.4. Platform changes included an upgrade to Firecracker v0.23, improved restart and connection handling, timeout fixes, and stronger application-context isolation. The changelog also notes new crash-log context, humanized app times, improved image resolution, and corrected internal port and metrics handling.

Takeaways

1. 1

   The example applications include Gogs, MQTT with Mosquitto, MinIO, Node-RED, and Redis configurations with and without TLS.

2. 2

   fly secrets import accepts key=value settings from stdin and supports multiline values wrapped in two pairs of three double quotes.

3. 3

   Fly upgraded its virtual machines to Firecracker v0.23 and improved restart connection handling, timeout behavior, and application-context isolation.