Scaling a Service

Scaling a service using the web interface and the CLI

This tutorial shows how to scale a service using the web interface and the CLI.

Scale Your Service from the Web Interface

  1. From the Services tab, click the menu dots to the right side to access More Actions.

  2. Click the menu symbol and choose Scale By. menu symbol

    Figure 1. More Actions menu

  3. Enter the total number of instances you would like, then click SCALE SERVICE. scale

    Figure 2. Choose number of instances

  4. Click the name of your service to see your scaled service. post scale

    Figure 3. Services list

Scale Your Service from the CLI

  1. Enter the following command from the CLI, :

    dcos marathon app update <app-id> instances=<total_desired_instances>

  2. Enter this command to see your scaled service.

    dcos task <task-id>

For example, this task is scaled to 6 instances:

dcos marathon app update basic-0 instances=6
dcos task basic-0
NAME     HOST        USER  STATE  ID                                            
basic-0  10.0.0.10   root    R    basic-0.1c73e448-0b47-11e7-a8b6-de4438bbb8f0  
basic-0  10.0.1.101  root    R    basic-0.1c739626-0b47-11e7-a8b6-de4438bbb8f0  
basic-0  10.0.1.41   root    R    basic-0.1c736f14-0b47-11e7-a8b6-de4438bbb8f0  
basic-0  10.0.1.92   root    R    basic-0.12d5bbc2-0b47-11e7-a8b6-de4438bbb8f0  
basic-0  10.0.1.92   root    R    basic-0.1c73bd37-0b47-11e7-a8b6-de4438bbb8f0  
basic-0  10.0.3.180  root    R    basic-0.1c739625-0b47-11e7-a8b6-de4438bbb8f0