Fly Apps on machine prerelease

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Nice.

I want to use this new release.

I submitted a bunch of fixes for flyctl wrt to Machines back in the day that I needed (and since then continue to maintain my very old fork) but couldn’t be merged: Improvements to deploy and run commands for machines by ignoramous · Pull Request #1327 · superfly/flyctl · GitHub

If they have been fixed in main, I’d move to it.

The blocking issues for me are:

  1. leases for apps with 40+ Machines just didn’t work as expected with rolling deploys. Always had (and still have) to do an immediate deploy.
  2. flyctl deploy -a <app-name> ... didn’t really work.

The PR fixed (or tried to fix) the underlying issues.

It’d be nice if we could use Machine names instead of IDs that increasingly have a lot of hex chars common for some reason. I always have to double check the ID before execing some of the more onerous commands (remove -f for example): [FR] flyctl m update with machine-name · Issue #1293 · superfly/flyctl · GitHub (I volunteer to impl if this is something that folks at Fly are open to merging).

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