Is there a way to auto scale containers deployed in docker swarm, using portainer-ce?

[ghevge]

Hi,
I have a 2 nodes docker swarm environment managed from portainer-ce. I'm looking for a way to automatically scale (horizontaly and/or vertically, up or down) the running containers, based on their load.

Is it possible to achive this with portainer-ce?

Thanks.

[samdulam]

Swarm does not support Auto-scaling out of the box.
Portainer does not have that additional functionality either.

https://soumyadeeppaul.medium.com/auto-scaling-services-on-swarm-cd1f6fafd7ac
You could look at using Portainer webhook or docker api proxy to change the replicas instead of using Jenkins etc.

[ghevge]

Docker already has functionality to get the system load and to scale container. IMO autoscaling should be easily implemented on top of these 2 functionalities.