Skip to main content

​
Container Image

We have already built the container image and you can use that in this example. The container image is located at 8scale/hello-world [dockerhub]. We have defined a basic http server with 2 paths.
GET /health returns 200 status
GET /hello returns 200 status with body world

​
Create Hello World App

Let’s get started, follow these steps to create the app.
1

Compute

5090

32 GiB GPU 4 CPU • 32 GiB RAM
Pick the above option or the cheapest one. While this app doesn’t require a GPU, currently we offer no CPU options.
2

Container

​
App Name
string
required
Set to hello world
​
Container Image
string
required
Set to 8scale/hello-world:latest
​
Registry Auth
string
Leave it empty
​
Entrypoint
string
Leave it empty
​
Container Disk
number
default:"1"
required
Leave it as 1 GiB
​
Cache Volume
number
default:"1"
Leave it as 0
3

Scaling

​
Min Replica(s)
number
default:"0"
required
Leave it as 0
​
Max Replica(s)
number
default:"1"
required
Leave it as 1
​
Requests Per Replica
number
default:"1"
required
Set to 100. This app is very simple, it can handle many requests in parallel.
​
Scale Down Delay
number
required
Set to 5 seconds
4

Environment

Leave it emptyClick Deploy App and then go to apps page and click hello world app to get to overview page.

​
Test Hello World App

Click playground tab. Type in hello as GET path and hit send. You will see the result with a 200 status.
The result should look like this.
app result for hello path You have successfully deployed hello-world app and tested scaling up a replica which handles GET /hello request.
⌘I