Demonstrating the use of auto scaling

In this section, we shall demonstrate the use of auto scaling by adding an extra load to the Hello world service. 

• Invoke the service using the public IP of one of the tasks; the public IP may be obtained from a task's details, as shown in the following screenshot:

• First, invoke the service in one browser only. The Hello world application gets invoked and the service response gets displayed in the browser, as shown in the following screenshot:

• To increase the load, invoke the same Hello world application multiple times using the curl tool. Run the following command on a Windows Command line:

      curl http://18.191.95.171/?[1-20]

• An internal load balancer automatically distributes the client load among the tasks in a service, regardless of which task is invoked by a client. An external load balancer may also be configured...