Scale service replicas with docker compose scale

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Documented steps

  1. Set replica counts explicitly: docker compose scale web=3 db=2
  2. Avoid starting linked services: docker compose scale --no-deps web=3
  3. Verify running instances with docker compose ps
  4. Official docs: https://docs.docker.com/reference/cli/docker/compose/scale/

Known gotchas

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