scale

Scales an App to the specified capacity in a certain environment

Usage: boxfuse scale app -capacity=instanceCount:instanceType

> boxfuse scale hello -capacity=3:t2.small -env=prod

Scaling hello to 3 t2.large instances in prod
Launching t2.large instance of axelfontaine/hello:1.0 (ami-f6384f94) in eu-central-1 ...
Instance launched in 00:10.009s -> i-f876f2ba
Remapping Elastic IP 54.11.12.1 to i-f876f2ba ...
Waiting 15s for AWS to complete Elastic IP Zero Downtime transition ...
Terminating instance i-053de18e ...
Deployment completed successfully. axelfontaine/hello:1.0 is up and running at https://hello-axelfontaine.boxfuse.io
Successfully scaled hello to 3 t2.large instances in prod

Settings

Argument boxfuse.conf property Default Description

-capacity=...

capacity

The capacity to scale an app to in a certain environment

Valid formats:

`5:t2.small`	ensure there are always 5 t2.small instances running
`2-10:c4.large:cpu30-70`	auto-scale between 2 (min) and 10 (max) c4.large instances based upon average CPU load over the last 300 seconds scale in at 30% and below, scale out at 70% and above
`2-10:c4.large:cpu30-70:60`	auto-scale between 2 (min) and 10 (max) c4.large instances based upon average CPU load over the last 60 seconds scale in at 30% and below, scale out at 70% and above
`2-10:c4.large:netin1024-8300`	auto-scale between 2 (min) and 10 (max) c4.large instances based upon incoming network traffic per instance over the last 300 seconds scale in at 1024 KB and below, scale out at 8300 KB and above
`2-10:c4.large:netin1024-8300:60`	auto-scale between 2 (min) and 10 (max) c4.large instances based upon incoming network traffic per instance over the last 60 seconds scale in at 1024 KB and below, scale out at 8300 KB and above
`2-10:c4.large:netout1024-8300`	auto-scale between 2 (min) and 10 (max) c4.large instances based upon outgoing network traffic per instance over the last 300 seconds scale in at 1024 KB and below, scale out at 8300 KB and above
`2-10:c4.large:netout1024-8300:60`	auto-scale between 2 (min) and 10 (max) c4.large instances based upon outgoing network traffic per instance over the last 60 seconds scale in at 1024 KB and below, scale out at 8300 KB and above

-env=... env dev Select the specified environment (ex.: test or prod)

Machine-readable output (sample)

{"success":"true"}