Deploy Your First App on Flux

Fluxers! If you have never deployed anything on Flux, this is the article for you. Getting an application running on the decentralized cloud takes minutes, costs from $0.99 a month, and there is more than one way to do it — so you can pick whichever fits how you already work.

Here are four routes, from the easiest to the most hands-on.

Route one: just say what you want

Open the new FluxCloud preview at cloudpreview.app.runonflux.io and type what you want to run, in plain words:

• “A WordPress site for a small bakery.”
• “A Minecraft server for ten friends.”
• “Postgres with an API in front of it.”

The assistant, FluxAI, works out the resources, fetches a live price from the network, and hands you a ready deployment to review. Common workloads fill the form instantly. Check it, adjust anything you like, then sign and pay with your own wallet or a card — the assistant prepares everything, but only you can approve the spend.

This is the best starting point if you know what you want running but not how to describe it to a cloud.

Route two: push your code with Orbit

If your project already lives in a Git repository, Orbit is the fastest way onto Flux. Paste your repository URL into orbit.runonflux.com, set the port your app listens on, and launch.

Orbit detects your framework from more than 100 — Next.js, Vite, Django, Rails, Laravel, Go, Rust, Spring Boot, .NET and many more — builds it, and deploys it. From then on, every push to your branch redeploys automatically, and a build that fails never replaces the version that works.

No Dockerfile, no server to manage. This blog is deployed exactly this way.

Route three: let your AI agent do it

If you work with Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf or another AI coding tool, add the Flux Cloud MCP server and ask your agent to deploy for you:

npx @runonflux/flux-cloud-mcp

There is no account to create — two keys are the whole identity, and the server can generate them for you. Your agent can price a deployment before you fund anything, and it only spends after you confirm. Ask it what something would cost first; that part is free.

Route four: the full control panel

For complete control over every setting, use the deployment editor in FluxCloud or the new preview. You describe each component directly:

• Image — any public Docker image, or a private one with registry credentials.
• Resources — CPU, memory and storage per instance.
• Instances — how many copies to run across the network.
• Ports and domains — what to expose, and your own domain if you have one.
• Storage — local, replicated, or primary/standby so your data survives a node going away.
• Private mode — encrypt the whole specification so only ArcaneOS nodes can run it.

Or pick a ready-made template

Many popular applications are a single click. The apps hub covers WordPress, n8n, Hermes and OpenClaw, and the games hub covers nineteen game servers, from Terraria and Minecraft to ARK and Factorio. New accounts get the first week of a game server free.

What it costs

Pricing follows the resources you request: CPU, memory and storage, multiplied by the number of instances, with discounts for small applications and for longer subscriptions. Every deployment has a $0.99 minimum, and prices round to a figure ending in .49 or .99, so quotes are easy to read.

A small web app — half a CPU, 500 MB of memory and 5 GB of storage, on three instances — comes to $0.99 a month. Pay by card, or in FLUX for a 5% discount. You always see the price before you commit.

What happens when you deploy

Your signed specification is registered on the Flux network, and nodes around the world pick it up, pull your image and start your instances. Within minutes your app is reachable at its own address — and from then on it runs on independently operated machines, with no single company in the middle.

Want help along the way? The Ask AI button on the Flux documentation answers questions about every part of this, from resource limits to custom domains.

Start now

The quickest first step: open the FluxCloud preview and type what you want to run. Your first app on the decentralized cloud is a sentence away.