One of the most important reasons for using cloud solutions is the ability to scale your applications easily. The Pivotal platform deals with these issues in a very intuitive way. Firstly, you may decide how many instances of an application are started at each stage of deployment. For example, if you decided to use manifest.yml and deploy it with the cf push command, the number of created instances will be determined by field instances, as shown in the following code snippet:
---applications:- name: account-service memory: 300M instances: 2 host: account-service-piomin domain: cfapps.io path: target/account-service-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
The number of running instances, as well as memory and CPU limits, can be modified on the started application. ...
