Does Fly.io support launching many short-lived fly machines, like for builds?

[mayailurus]

@travtarr

they have posted a few times that its a hard rate limit. I don’t remember all the threads where they talked about this

Here’s another one of the big ones, in my opinion; it says a lot more about the actual machines.dev → rate limiter → flaps → flyd internals:

@tvdfly

envoy makes it easy for us to sprinkle in generous rate limiting and other features to keep the service available for you and everyone else.

@tlpuse

did you need to request quota increases on running machines, like with AWS?

If this is the number of Machines simultaneously existing (as opposed to the number of starts or creations), then a person does need to contact Fly.io if they want ≥20 (or so).

Some posters in the forum have mentioned having a thousand running at once, so this other limit is more of a question of the platform requiring notice in advance…