How to Scale Apps in App Platform

1. Go to https://cloud.digitalocean.com/apps, click on your app, and click on the Settings tab.
2. Click on the resource you’d like to scale.
3. 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.
4. Click Save.

Related Topics

Container

A container is a single running instance of a service, worker, or static site resource 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 resource in your app, either horizontally (more containers) or vertically (more CPU and memory per container).