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diff --git a/docs/reference/commandline/service_scale.md b/docs/reference/commandline/service_scale.md index 64075ed092..a3aef5fd34 100644 --- a/docs/reference/commandline/service_scale.md +++ b/docs/reference/commandline/service_scale.md @@ -24,9 +24,7 @@ Options: --help Print usage ``` -## Examples - -### Scale a service +## Description The scale command enables you to scale one or more replicated services either up or down to the desired number of replicas. This command cannot be applied on @@ -34,19 +32,27 @@ services which are global mode. The command will return immediately, but the actual scaling of the service may take some time. To stop all replicas of a service while keeping the service active in the swarm you can set the scale to 0. -For example, the following command scales the "frontend" service to 50 tasks. +## Examples + +### Scale a single service + +The following command scales the "frontend" service to 50 tasks. ```bash $ docker service scale frontend=50 + frontend scaled to 50 ``` The following command tries to scale a global service to 10 tasks and returns an error. -``` +```bash $ docker service create --mode global --name backend backend:latest + b4g08uwuairexjub6ome6usqh + $ docker service scale backend=10 + backend: scale can only be used with replicated mode ``` @@ -76,16 +82,18 @@ backend and frontend services: ```bash $ docker service scale backend=3 frontend=5 + backend scaled to 3 frontend scaled to 5 $ docker service ls + ID NAME MODE REPLICAS IMAGE 3pr5mlvu3fh9 frontend replicated 5/5 nginx:alpine 74nzcxxjv6fq backend replicated 3/3 redis:3.0.6 ``` -## Related information +## Related commands * [service create](service_create.md) * [service inspect](service_inspect.md) |