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Rewrite Flycast blueprint to drop GPU/Ollama example#2394

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Rewrite Flycast blueprint to drop GPU/Ollama example#2394
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GPU Machines are being deprecated on 2026-08-01, and the Flycast blueprint at blueprints/private-applications-flycast.html.md was built almost entirely around an Ollama-on-GPU walkthrough. The Flycast concepts themselves are GPU-independent, so this rewrites the guide rather than removing it.

  • Replaces the Ollama example with a generic private HTTP service using the public nginxdemos/hello image, so no external example repo is needed
  • Swaps the multi-step fly launch --no-deploy + fly ips allocate-v6 --private + fly deploy flow for the modern fly launch --image ... --flycast
  • Removes the YouTube embed (GPU/Ollama walkthrough), the "Running Llama 3" subsection, and the GPU-related related-reading links
  • Replaces "Fly Postgres" with "Managed Postgres" in the security note (the currently supported offering)
  • Refreshes related reading to point at the autostart blueprint, the Flycast reference, and private networking
  • Bumps frontmatter date to today

Conceptual sections ("What is Flycast?", "Security note", the public-vs-private framing) are preserved as-is. The shell-Machine demonstration (nslookup / ping / curl / time to show wake-on-request) is preserved with the example app renamed to flycast-demo.

Opened as Draft for review of the new framing and example choice before merge.

GPU Machines are deprecated as of 2026-08-01, so the Ollama walkthrough
needed to go. Reframed the guide around a generic private HTTP service
using the public nginxdemos/hello image and the modern fly launch
--flycast flag, so no external example repo is needed. Also swapped the
Fly Postgres mention for Managed Postgres and refreshed related reading
to drop the GPU/Ollama blog posts.
The link pointed at /docs/reference/services/#ip-addresses, which no
longer exists. The relevant content lives at
/docs/networking/services/#anycast-ip-addresses.
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