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Misty Stanley-Jones a4f5e30249 Various copyedits to reduce future tense, wordiness, and use of 'please' (#5788)
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* Eradicate you'll

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* Redirect to official Chef and Puppet docs

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---
description: Sets the number of containers to run for a service.
keywords: fig, composition, compose, docker, orchestration, cli, scale
title: docker-compose scale
notoc: true
---
> **Note**: This command is deprecated. Use the [up](up.md) command with the
`--scale` flag instead.
```
Usage: scale [SERVICE=NUM...]
```
Sets the number of containers to run for a service.
Numbers are specified as arguments in the form `service=num`. For example:
docker-compose scale web=2 worker=3
>**Tip**: Alternatively, in
[Compose file version 3.x](/compose/compose-file/index.md), you can specify
[replicas](/compose/compose-file/index.md#replicas)
under the [deploy](/compose/compose-file/index.md#deploy) key as part of a
service configuration for [Swarm mode](/engine/swarm/). The `deploy` key and its sub-options (including `replicas`) only works with the `docker stack deploy` command, not `docker compose up` or `docker-compose run`.