Question

the api for scale up/down apps horizontally

I hope to scale up/down apps horizontally.

but I can not find out any api at: https://developers.digitalocean.com/documentation/v2/#apps

it looks like it only can be modified manually

https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/how-to/scale-app/

Your comment welcome


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ahmedbutt
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June 9, 2021
Accepted Answer

Hi @kavagames

For horizontally scaling the App using API you need to Hit the “Update an App” Endpoint and resubmit the Spec with the new “instance count”. The “instance count” parameter is used to Horizontally scale up/down an App.

Update an App API link

Cheers, Ahmed

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