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# fly machine

Manage Fly Machines. Fly Machines are super-fast, lightweight VMs that can be created,
and then quickly started and stopped as needed with flyctl commands or with the
Machines REST fly.

## Usage

```
fly machine [command] [flags]
```

## Available Commands

* [api-proxy](/flyctl/cmd/fly_machine_api-proxy)	 - Establish a proxy to the Machine API through a Wireguard tunnel for local connections
* [clone](/flyctl/cmd/fly_machine_clone)	 - Clone a Fly Machine
* [cordon](/flyctl/cmd/fly_machine_cordon)	 - Deactivate all services on a machine
* [create](/flyctl/cmd/fly_machine_create)	 - Create, but don't start, a machine
* [destroy](/flyctl/cmd/fly_machine_destroy)	 - Destroy Fly machines
* [exec](/flyctl/cmd/fly_machine_exec)	 - Execute a command on a machine
* [kill](/flyctl/cmd/fly_machine_kill)	 - Kill (SIGKILL) a Fly machine
* [leases](/flyctl/cmd/fly_machine_leases)	 - Manage machine leases
* [list](/flyctl/cmd/fly_machine_list)	 - List Fly machines
* [place](/flyctl/cmd/fly_machine_place)	 - Simulate Machine placements
* [restart](/flyctl/cmd/fly_machine_restart)	 - Restart one or more Fly machines
* [run](/flyctl/cmd/fly_machine_run)	 - Run a machine
* [start](/flyctl/cmd/fly_machine_start)	 - Start one or more Fly machines
* [status](/flyctl/cmd/fly_machine_status)	 - Show current status of a running machine
* [stop](/flyctl/cmd/fly_machine_stop)	 - Stop one or more Fly machines
* [suspend](/flyctl/cmd/fly_machine_suspend)	 - Suspend one or more Fly machines
* [uncordon](/flyctl/cmd/fly_machine_uncordon)	 - Reactivate all services on a machine
* [update](/flyctl/cmd/fly_machine_update)	 - Update a machine
* [wait](/flyctl/cmd/fly_machine_wait)	 - Wait for a machine to reach a state

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for machine
```

## Global Options

```
  -t, --access-token string   Fly API Access Token
      --debug                 Print additional logs and traces
      --verbose               Verbose output
```

## See Also

* [fly](/flyctl/cmd/fly_help)	 - The Fly.io command line interface