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Scaling & Releases

Scale app instances, inspect immutable releases, promote deliberately, and recover through generation-fenced rollback.

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Ferrite scales stateless application processes independently from durable services. Surviving instances keep running while the desired generation changes.

Scale an app

Open the app in the Dashboard and choose the desired instance count, or call the Ferrite MCP scale tool with {"app":"my-app","instances":3}. Confirm the result with ferrite status my-app.

Scale to zero to turn an app off without deleting its durable resources. Scale back to one or more instances to resume service. Each mutation returns a durable operation identifier and advances the generation so a stale control request cannot overwrite a newer decision.

Inspect releases

Use the Dashboard release and environment views, or the MCP releases, environments, and deploy_history tools.

Releases are immutable. Environments point at a release. Promotion moves a pointer; it does not rebuild source.

Recover

Use the Dashboard rollback control for the selected deployment. MCP clients can call rollback for the previous app artifact or rollback_release with the exact app, environment, and release identifier.

Verify status, public route, logs, and the critical product journey after a rollback. A control-plane success response is not the final application check.

Use Logs and Reliability during rollout.