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Hoista finds the Fly Apps in an organization, with their Machines. It deploys apps, rolls them back, pauses and resumes them, sets secrets and custom domains, and can run your remote.

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Connect

Fly.io connects with a token:
  1. Open Tokens in the Fly.io dashboard, pick the organization under Organization, and choose Create Organization Token. Fly.io asks for a payment method before it runs any app.
  2. Copy the token. It starts with FlyV1.
  3. In Desktop, open Accounts, choose Fly.io, paste the token and pick the organization.
Fly.io’s Organization Tokens page

Fly.io’s Organization Tokens page, captured November 2026. Personal details are blurred. If yours looks different, the names in the steps still match.

From the CLI:
Hoista asks for the token in a hidden prompt and finds the organization from it. In scripts, use hoist accounts add fly --name NAME --token-stdin, and add --account <organization-slug> if the token reaches more than one organization.

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What you can do

  • Deploy an app from a folder with hoist deploy, or from a container image. Roll back with hoist rollback.
  • Pause and resume an app with hoist resources pause and hoist resources resume. Fly.io still charges for storage while an app is paused.
  • Set variables and secrets on the Variables tab or with hoist env.
  • Add custom domains with hoist domains add. Fly.io issues the certificate. Hoista shows the DNS records to add at your DNS provider, and hoist domains check checks them.
  • See logs on the Logs tab and metrics on Metrics.
  • Use the Fly.io tab for Fly.io’s own settings and operations.
  • Run your remote on Fly.io with hoist remote create fly --account <account> --repo OWNER/NAME. Until Hoista publishes a server image, --repo is needed; see Set one up.
  • Delete an app at Fly.io after you confirm it by name.
Fly.io’s bill isn’t shown on Billing. See it in the Fly.io dashboard.

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Bring in existing resources

Hoista looks for apps when you connect. In Desktop, add them as described in Bring in an existing project. From the CLI:
Projects start in watching mode. Run hoist projects manage my-app when you want Hoista to make changes. To look again, run hoist accounts refresh <account> with the name or ID from hoist accounts.

Providers

What Hoista supports on each provider.

Connect hosting accounts

Connect, check and rotate accounts.

Bring in a project

Add what an account already runs.