How to Deploy OpenClaw on Fly.io — Global Edge Deployment Guide

Fly.io is an excellent hosting choice for OpenClaw — good free tier, 30+ regions, and clean CLI tooling. Here's how to get your agent deployed and running persistently.

Install flyctl

curl -L https://fly.io/install.sh | sh
flyctl auth login

Create Your Dockerfile

FROM node:20-alpine

WORKDIR /app
RUN npm install -g openclaw

COPY workspace/ /root/.openclaw/workspace/

HEALTHCHECK --interval=30s --timeout=10s \
  CMD openclaw gateway status || exit 1

CMD ["openclaw", "gateway", "start"]

Create fly.toml

app = "my-openclaw-agent"
primary_region = "ord"

[env]
  PORT = "8080"

[http_service]
  internal_port = 8080
  force_https = true
  auto_stop_machines = false
  auto_start_machines = true
  min_machines_running = 1

[[mounts]]
  source = "openclaw_workspace"
  destination = "/root/.openclaw"

[[vm]]
  memory = "512mb"
  cpu_kind = "shared"
  cpus = 1

Create the Volume

flyctl volumes create openclaw_workspace \
  --region ord \
  --size 1

Set Secrets

Never put API keys in fly.toml — use secrets:

flyctl secrets set OPENCLAW_LLM_PROVIDER=anthropic
flyctl secrets set OPENCLAW_LLM_API_KEY=sk-ant-YOUR_KEY
flyctl secrets set OPENCLAW_SLACK_TOKEN=xoxb-YOUR_TOKEN
flyctl secrets set OPENCLAW_SLACK_SIGNING_SECRET=YOUR_SECRET

Deploy

flyctl launch   # First deploy
flyctl deploy   # Subsequent deploys

Verify and Monitor

flyctl status           # Check machine status
flyctl logs            # Stream logs
flyctl ssh console     # SSH into machine for debugging

Multi-Region Deployment

One of Fly.io's unique strengths — run agents in multiple regions for redundancy:

flyctl regions add lhr   # Add London
flyctl regions add sin   # Add Singapore
flyctl scale count 2     # Run 2 instances

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