Scale to zero for Forge Containers is now available in Early Access

You can now configure a Forge Containers service to scale down to zero running instances in non-production environments when it's idle.

Scaling to zero helps reduce costs in non-production environments by ensuring you only reserve compute capacity when your service is actively handling traffic. You can enable this behaviour for a service in your app's manifest.

What's changing

• You can now set the min scaling property to 0 for Forge Containers services.
• This behavior is supported in DEVELOPMENT and STAGING environments.
• Forge Containers remains in Early Access (EAP). Features under EAP are subject to change and are not recommended for production use.

What you need to do To enable scaling to zero, update your service's scaling configuration in the manifest.yml file:

services:
  - key: example-service
    scaling:
      min: 0
      max: 2

For more information, see the Forge Containers manifest reference.