Start building with FlowFuse
Build industrial applications, then deploy and run them from cloud to edge.
Where do you want to start?
FlowFuse Cloud
FlowFuse runs the platform for you. Sign up, then build your applications and deploy them from your browser, with nothing to install. The quickest way to try FlowFuse.
Your own edge hardware, with the Device Agent
Run your applications on your own machines at the edge, from an industrial PC to a Raspberry Pi, and manage them all from FlowFuse. The Device Agent connects each machine as a remote instance, to FlowFuse Cloud or to a self-hosted platform.
FlowFuse Self-Hosted
Run the whole platform, and the applications on it, on your own infrastructure: on premises or in your own cloud, with Docker or Kubernetes. Talk to our sales team first: they help you choose the right licence and plan the installation with you.
Your AI agent
Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot or another agent to FlowFuse over MCP. It can manage your teams and applications, and build and edit their flows, within the access you grant it.
Not sure yet? Talk to us
Tell us about the applications you want to build, and the sites and machines they run on. We work out with you which setup fits, then help you get it running. To understand the platform first, the Application Guide explains how FlowFuse applications are shaped.
Platform
Choose how you run FlowFuse
Where FlowFuse runs is the one choice that changes your first steps. After that, the documentation is the same.
FlowFuse Cloud
Hosted by FlowFuse. Nothing to install: sign up and build in the browser.
Self-hosted
The platform on your own infrastructure, with Docker, Kubernetes or a single machine. Start by talking to our sales team.
Documentation
Find what you need
Four kinds of page, for four different moments.
Learn by building
Lessons that take you from nothing to something working.
Get something done
Task guides, for when you know what you want.
Look something up
Details you come back for rather than read once.
Understand FlowFuse
What FlowFuse is, and how to shape an application on it.
Journey
From first flow to production
Follow the lifecycle, or jump to what you need.
Get started
Your first application and its first flow, and the people you build it with.
Build
The flows, dashboards and data your application runs on.
Deploy
Promote tested work to production, in the cloud and at the edge.
Operate
Access, visibility and cost, once it runs.
Resources
Keep learning
Articles, how-tos and product news.
Ready-made flows to start an application from.
Every release, feature by feature.
Live and recorded sessions with the team.
Certified nodes for the systems you connect to.
Walkthroughs and recorded talks.
Help
Ask a question
Put your question to our support team, the community, or the troubleshooting guides.
Search the Help Center or submit a ticket. For Cloud and Enterprise customers.
Find out why a flow or an instance is not behaving.
Ask the FlowFuse and Node-RED community.
FlowFuse Cloud availability.