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Best practices for scaling a stack application

As with most things Docker, there are a few different ways to accomplish desired states for your applications. When you are using Docker stacks, you should always use the same method for updating the application as you did for deploying it. Make any desired state changes in the stack compose file, and then run the exact same command you used to deploy the stack. This allows you to use standard source-code-control features to properly handle your compose file, such as tracking and reviewing changes. And, it allows Docker to do the right things for orchestrating your application. If you need to scale a service up or down within your application, you should update the replicas key in the stack compose ...