Scaling and Deleting Services

Let's learn how to scale and remove services managed by the swarm.

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Scaling services

Another powerful feature of services is the ability to scale them up and down by adding or removing replicas.

Assume business is booming and you’re experiencing double the number of requests to your web front-end. Fortunately, you can easily scale the number of replicas with the docker service scale command.

Run the following command to scale the web-fe service from 5 to 10 replicas.

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