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How to Scale Your App in App Platform
Validated on
1 March 2021 •
Posted on
6 October 2020
Go to
https://cloud.digitalocean.com/apps
, click on your app, and click on the
Components
tab.
Click on the component you’d like to scale.
Scale your application horizontally by increasing the number of containers, or vertically by increasing the container size.
Tip
The total cost of running a component is determined by the container size multiplied by the number of containers.
Click
Save
.
Related Topics
Container
A container is a single running instance of a service, worker, or static site component shipped on App Platform.
Load Balancer
In App Platform, a load balancer is an unseen element of your app topology that handles routing and even distribution of incoming requests.
Scaling
Scaling is the process of adding more capacity to a component in your app, either horizontally (more containers) or vertically (more CPU and memory per container).
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