By local repo, do you mean like how Heroku's `git push heroku` works? Or do you mean you want to deploy from your local machine's repo? The `fly deploy` command is a local deployment in the sense that it copies the files of your application and deploys it to the server, regardless if you have git or not.
If you launch Fly from the CLI to test the free tier, you don't need a credit card. Obviously when you exceed the limits of the free tier, you'll need to provide a credit card.
With `local repository` I meant not involving a thirdparty like Github or Gitlab which is a requirement for some Heroku-like providers. `git push heroku` is very nice to have - for me it would be enough to not having to leave the terminal as it seems to be the case.
Last time I tried fly.io I had to provide payment information before doing something useful. I'll give it another try as you suggested.
Got it! There's no plans to implement git repos in the same way Heroku is doing it (FWIW I love how Heroku does this). When Heroku introduced this feature, cloud CI services were practically non-existent. Today a similar effect can be achieved in Github, Gitlab, etc. with their CI integrations (See https://fly.io/docs/app-guides/continuous-deployment-with-gi... for Github)
I realize that's what you're trying to avoid. In your case I'd recommend running `fly deploy` from your CLI If you don't want to leave the CLI. You could wire this up as a git hook either on your workstation or third-party git server. I recognize this isn't the same thing as Heroku, so I'm calling these work arounds :-)
If you launch Fly from the CLI to test the free tier, you don't need a credit card. Obviously when you exceed the limits of the free tier, you'll need to provide a credit card.