Many of you folks probably do not know me - my name is Ketan Umare, and I am the original author of Flyte. Since open sourcing flyte, I have been part of this community and I am grateful to all the amazing folks who have help make Flyte an indespensible part of their Platforms. Today Flyte is used by some of the largest companies in the world to build and deliver their compound AI products.
Recently, we decided to make a change, move Flyte docs to the same platform where we host union docs. Below is my rationale,
Flyte is, and will always remain, an
open-source project under the
Apache 2.0 license and a
Linux Foundation product. Our commitment to openness and independence remains unchanged.
However, maintaining separate documentation sites has become an increasing burden on our small team at
Union.ai. Today, Flyte’s documentation is primarily maintained by our team, rather than through broad community contributions. Managing the infrastructure for docs, in addition to maintaining Flyte itself, introduces unnecessary overhead. (Flyte docs are not simply python docs, there are golang, protobuf, python, java, terraform etc)
To improve efficiency and focus on making Flyte better, we are moving our documentation to a
unified platform at
union.ai/docs. This decision is driven by
practicality, not commercialization.
Why the Move?
• We are adopting
Hugo, which offers *faster builds, versioning support, and local development capabilities*—major improvements over using pure Sphinx.
• Hosting Flyte docs alongside Union docs
reduces maintenance costs and simplifies infrastructure.
• This transition
allows us to improve documentation quality with more frequent updates and enhancements.
We’re excited about the improvements this will bring, and you can expect to see
major upgrades soon! 🚀
Let us know if you have any questions. Thanks for being part of the Flyte community!