`serve` moved off a port something else held and said so, which made starting a second engine for one installation look like it had worked — two engines on one SQLite file, which is not a supported shape. A serving engine now records its pid beside its data, and a taken default port is asked who it is: this directory's own engine is named and nothing is started, another installation's Fluksio is named and the move happens anyway, and anything else reads as it did before. Whose engine it is is settled by the token, which is signed with this directory's secret key — so a foreign one is only ever named, never stopped from here. A directory with no credential yet asks unauthenticated, and its answer is foreign, which is the side that stops nothing. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019Hra4ndWMCLU5F3KjUuVAc
Fluksio App
Fluksio is a node-based automation software that brings trust and reliability to your flow. It just works and looks good.
The core of Fluksio: a node-based, test-driven automation software built to scale. This
repo holds the FastAPI backend, the flow engine, and the dashboard SPA. It is served on
app.${DOMAIN} (SPA) and api.${DOMAIN} (API)
Layout
backend/ FastAPI + SQLModel + Alembic + SQLite
fluksio/flow/ the flow engine (nodes, pipeline, state backends, controller)
fluksio/cli.py `fluksio serve` / `enroll` / `worker`
worker/ the `fluksio-worker` distribution: the agent and the node runner
frontend/ React 19 + TanStack Router + Tailwind 4 + shadcn/ui
docs/ the public documentation site (zensical), served on docs.${DOMAIN}
docker/ compose.yml → compose.dev.yml → compose.local.yml (+ compose.traefik.yml)
scripts/ generate-client.sh, test.sh
Install without Docker
Get started quickly by running
pip install fluksio
fluksio serve
Then, head over to fluksio.com, sign up and add a new installation. Using the code provided, run
fluksio enroll <code>
and you're ready to rock.
Fluksio is distributed at it's heart. A machine that should only run nodes for an engine elsewhere installs less:
pip install fluksio-worker
fluksio-worker --url wss://api.example.com/api/v1/workers/attach --token "$TOKEN" --labels gpu
Getting started
Normally driven from the workspace root (make init once, then make dev). Standalone:
make install # uv sync + bun install
make dev-utils # proxy and mailcatcher only
make dev-backend # FastAPI on :8000, hot reload
make dev-frontend # Vite on :5173
make test # pytest + Playwright (the e2e half needs the stack up)
make lint # ruff + mypy + biome
make generate-client # regenerate the frontend SDK from the OpenAPI schema
make help lists every target.
Documentation
The public site lives in docs/ and is built with zensical:
make docs-serve # live preview on :8000
make docs # static build into ./site
It is served at docs.${DOMAIN} by the docs service in docker/compose.yml,
and .gitea/workflows/docs.yml builds it with --strict on every push.
License
Copyright (C) 2026 Melvin Strobl - GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later. See LICENSE.