# Fly Kubernetes does more now

DevFeed: [Fly Kubernetes does more now](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/fly-kubernetes-does-more-now-1696.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://fly.io/blog/fks-beta-live/>)

Published: 2024-03-07T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [The Fly Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-fly-blog.md>)

Topics: [Kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kubernetes.md>), [fly.io](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/fly-io.md>), [Firecracker](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/firecracker.md>), [k3s](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/k3s.md>), [Containers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/containers.md>), [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/networking.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [Prometheus](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/prometheus.md>)

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## AI overview

Fly Kubernetes has moved from early access toward a closed beta as a managed Kubernetes service backed by Fly.io infrastructure. It handles Kubernetes control-plane operations while users deploy workloads. The article explains that Fly's design uses K3s and Virtual Kubelet, transforms containers into Firecracker microVMs, and connects pods through an internal WireGuard mesh.

## Source excerpt

Eons ago, we announced we were working on Fly Kubernetes. It drummed up enough excitement to prove we were heading in the right direction. So, we got hard to work to get from barebones "early access" to a beta release. We'll be onboarding customers to the closed beta over the next few weeks. Email us at sales@fly.io and we'll hook you up. Fly Kubernetes is the "blessed path"™ to using Kubernetes backed by Fly.io infrastructure. Or, in simpler terms, it is our managed Kubernetes service. We take care of the complexity of operating the Kubernetes control plane, leaving you with the unfettered joy of deploying your Kubernetes workloads. If you love Fly.io and K8s, this product is for you. What even is a Kubernete? So how did this all come to be--and what even is a Kubernete? You can see more fun details in Introducing Fly Kubernetes. If you wade through all the YAML and CNCF projects, what's left is an API for declaring workloads and how it should be accessed. But that's not what people usually talk / groan about. It's everything else that comes along with adopting Kubernetes: a container runtime (CRI), networking between workloads (CNI) which leads to DNS (CoreDNS). Then you layer on Prometheus for metrics and whatever the logging daemon du jour is at the time. Now you get to debate which Ingress--strike that--Gateway API to deploy and if the next thing is anything to do with a Service Mess, then as they like to say where I live, "bless your heart". Finally, there's capacity planning. You've got to pick and choose where, how and what the Nodes will look like in order to configure and run the workloads. When we began thinking about what a Fly Kubernetes Service could look like, we started from first principles, as we do with most everything here. The best way we can describe it is the scene from Iron Man 2 when Tony Stark discovers a new element. As he's looking at the knowledge left behind by those that came before, he starts to imagine something entirely different and