Question
What is the best way to set up automatic or manual horizontal scaling with Docker/Docker Swarm?
- Posted on July 21, 2019
- DockerScalingUbuntu 18.04
Asked by lightsquare
Does DigitalOcean offer a way to horizontally scale a service, either automatically based on load, or through an API? It’s not clear from “Docker Swarm horizontal scaling” tutorials how the scaling is done, e.g. would I have to log in to DO and manually create or destroy, and provision, droplets when I needed more/less?
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Hello,
I guess that you could try using Digital Ocean’s API to deploy/destroy your droplets. But why don’t you try the managed Kubernetes solution instead?
Regards, Bobby