app - Runpod Documentation

Manage Flash applications. An app is the top-level container that groups your deployment environments, build artifacts, and configuration.

Command

flash app <subcommand> [OPTIONS]

Subcommands

Subcommand	Description
`list`	Show all apps in your account
`create`	Create a new app
`get`	Show details of an app
`delete`	Delete an app and all its resources

app list

Show all Flash apps under your account.

Command

flash app list

Output

┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Name           ┃ ID                   ┃ Environments            ┃ Builds           ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ my-project     │ app_abc123           │ dev, staging, prod      │ build_1, build_2 │
│ demo-api       │ app_def456           │ production              │ build_3          │
│ ml-inference   │ app_ghi789           │ dev, production         │ build_4, build_5 │
└────────────────┴──────────────────────┴─────────────────────────┴──────────────────┘

app create

Command

flash app create <NAME>

Arguments

string

required

Name for the new Flash app. Must be unique within your account.

What it creates

This command registers a Flash app in Runpod’s backend—essentially creating a namespace for your environments and builds. It does not:

Create local files (use flash init for that).
Provision cloud resources (endpoints, volumes, etc.).
Deploy any code.

The app is just a container that groups environments and builds together.

When to use

Most users don’t need to run flash app create explicitly. Apps are created automatically when you first run flash deploy. This command is primarily for CI/CD pipelines that need to pre-register apps before deployment.

app get

Get detailed information about a Flash app.

Command

flash app get <NAME>

Arguments

string

required

Name of the Flash app to inspect.

Output

╭─────────────────────────────────╮
│ Flash App: my-project           │
├─────────────────────────────────┤
│ Name: my-project                │
│ ID: app_abc123                  │
│ Environments: 3                 │
│ Builds: 5                       │
╰─────────────────────────────────╯

              Environments
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Name       ┃ ID                 ┃ State   ┃ Active Build     ┃ Created          ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ dev        │ env_dev123         │ DEPLOYED│ build_xyz789     │ 2024-01-15 10:30 │
│ staging    │ env_stg456         │ DEPLOYED│ build_xyz789     │ 2024-01-16 14:20 │
│ production │ env_prd789         │ DEPLOYED│ build_abc123     │ 2024-01-20 09:15 │
└────────────┴────────────────────┴─────────┴──────────────────┴──────────────────┘

                     Builds
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ ID                 ┃ Status                   ┃ Created          ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ build_abc123       │ COMPLETED                │ 2024-01-20 09:00 │
│ build_xyz789       │ COMPLETED                │ 2024-01-18 15:45 │
│ build_def456       │ COMPLETED                │ 2024-01-15 11:20 │
└────────────────────┴──────────────────────────┴──────────────────┘

app delete

Delete a Flash app and all its associated resources.

Command

flash app delete <NAME>

Arguments

string

required

Name of the Flash app to delete.

Process

Shows app details and resources to be deleted.
Prompts for confirmation (required).
Deletes all environments and their resources.
Deletes all builds.
Tears down the app’s Serverless endpoints. Flash discovers them per Flash environment on Runpod’s backend, so teardown works even when no local resource tracking exists (for example, in CI).
If every endpoint was removed, deletes the app record.

If any endpoint cannot be removed, the app record is not deleted and the command exits with a non-zero status; see app delete fails to remove an endpoint.

Output

Each removed endpoint prints a confirmation line, where <endpoint-name> and <endpoint-id> are the endpoint’s name and ID:

✓ deleted endpoint <endpoint-name>  <endpoint-id>

This operation is irreversible. All environments, builds, endpoints, volumes, and configuration will be permanently deleted.

App hierarchy

See Apps and environments for the complete app organization structure.

Auto-detection

Flash CLI automatically detects the app name from your current directory:

cd /path/to/APP_NAME
flash deploy          # Deploys to 'APP_NAME' app
flash env list        # Lists 'APP_NAME' environments

Override with the --app flag:

flash deploy --app other-project
flash env list --app other-project

Troubleshooting

app delete fails to remove an endpoint

When any endpoint cannot be removed, flash app delete does not delete the app record and exits with a non-zero status (exit code 1). It names each endpoint that survived teardown. When the endpoint still has an ID, the message gives the command to remove it:

endpoint <endpoint-id> not removed; delete it with runpodctl serverless delete <endpoint-id>

Remove the surviving endpoint with runpodctl serverless delete:

runpodctl serverless delete <endpoint-id>

If an endpoint is reported without an ID, it cannot be removed this way; delete it from the Runpod console instead. Re-running flash app delete <NAME> after a partial teardown is safe: endpoints that were already removed count as removed, so the command retries only the survivors.

flash env - Manage environments within an app
flash deploy - Deploy to an app’s environment
flash init - Create a new project

​Subcommands

​app list

​Output

​app create

​Arguments

​What it creates

​When to use

​app get

​Arguments

​Output

​app delete

​Arguments

​Process

​Output

​App hierarchy

​Auto-detection

​Troubleshooting

​app delete fails to remove an endpoint

​Related commands

Subcommands

app list

Output

app create

Arguments

What it creates

When to use

app get

Arguments

Output

app delete

Arguments

Process

Output

App hierarchy

Auto-detection

Troubleshooting

app delete fails to remove an endpoint

Related commands