Managing Apps

Learn how to manage Aptible Apps

Overview

Aptible makes managing your application simple. Whether you’re using the Aptible Dashboard, CLI, or Terraform, you have full control over your App’s lifecycle without needing to worry about the underlying infrastructure.

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Manually Scaling Apps

Apps can be manually scaled both horizontially (number of containers) and vertically (RAM/CPU) can be scaled on-demand with zero downtime deployments. Refer to App Scaling for more information.

Autoscaling Apps

Aptible is currently offering Vertical Autoscaling for Apps in limited release. Contact Aptible Support to request early access.

Restarting Apps

Apps can be restarted the following ways:

• Using the aptible restart command

• Within the Aptible Dashboard, by:

  • Navigating to the app
  • Selecting the Settings tab
  • Selecting Restart

  Like all Releases, when Apps are restarted, a new set of Containers will be launched to replace the existing ones for each of your App’s Services.

Achieving High Availability

High Availability Apps are only available on the Growth, Scale, and Enterprise plans.

Apps scaled to 2 or more Containers are automatically deployed in a high-availability configuration, with Containers deployed in separate AWS Availability Zones.

Renaming Apps

An App can be renamed in the following ways:

• Using the aptible apps:rename command
• Using the Aptible Terraform Provider

For the change to take effect, the App must be restarted.

Apps handles cannot start with “internal-” because applications with that prefix cannot have Endpoints allocated due to an AWS limitation.

Deprovisioning an App

Apps can be deleted/deprovisioned using one of these three methods:

• Within the Aptible Dashboard:
  • Selecting the Environment in which the App lives
  • Selecting the Apps tab
  • Selecting the given App
  • Selecting the Deprovision tab
• Using the aptible apps:deprovision command
• Using the Aptible Terraform Provider