# State of fly.io and IaC in 2026

**URL:** <https://community.fly.io/t/state-of-fly-io-and-iac-in-2026/28753>\
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**Created:** [October 5, 2026, 9:08am UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/state-of-fly-io-and-iac-in-2026/28753 "2026-10-05T09:08:40Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 5, 2026, 1:42pm UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/state-of-fly-io-and-iac-in-2026/28753/3 "2026-10-05T13:42:29Z")

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Hm… The biggest recent development is that there’s now a Pulumi provider in the works, which Fly.io has been very supportive of:

> [@Machines OpenAPI spec omissions](https://community.fly.io/t/machines-openapi-spec-omissions/27255/30):
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> I have been testing the Pulumi provider. It mostly works. The following are a few of the observations I made.

Probably the best way to help move the overall declarative cause forward would be to lend a hand in testing that one out as well—and giving feedback, etc.

> [@fungs](#):
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> I wonder what keeps it back.

It is mainly an architectural judgment rather than the difficulty of implementation, from what Fly has said themselves in the past.

> We don’t have a Terraform provider anymore, and that’s intentional. It’s not a great fit for how our platform works. This guide is about how to get a Terraform-like experience using the tools that do fit.
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> […]
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> But when it comes to the Machines API specifically, Terraform was always working at a bit of a mismatch since it tries to express an inherently imperative lifecycle in a declarative model. The Machines API gives you fine-grained control and flexibility that didn’t map cleanly to Terraform’s abstractions. With a little effort, you can build exactly what you need, and avoid being boxed in by someone else’s idea of what an app should look like.
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> If you’re rebuilding that tooling now, let us know what you’re working on. We might be able to help, or at least learn something from it.

[https://docs.fly.io/blueprints/infra-automation-without-terraform](https://docs.fly.io/blueprints/infra-automation-without-terraform)

There was actually a strong pro-declarative faction within the company for a while, from what I hear, but the (mostly) imperative side won out in the end.

(That’s simplifying the story a little, I’m sure, 😅.)

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