Manually increasing and decreasing servers

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  1. Determine how many servers are provisioned

Instead of relying on the ensure method, you can manually increase and decrease servers.

use Spatie\DynamicServers\Facades\DynamicServers;

DynamicServers::increase() // add one more default server
DynamicServers::increase(3) // add three more default servers
DynamicServers::increase(type: 'big') // add one more `big` server
DynamicServers::increase(5, type: 'big') // add five more `big` servers

DynamicServers::decrease() // destroy one default server
DynamicServers::decrease(2) // destroy two default servers
DynamicServers::decrease(type: 'big') // destroy one `big` server
DynamicServers::decrease(3, type: 'big') // destroy one `big` servers

Be aware that calling ensure($numberOfServers) will simply ensure that there are the number of servers giving available. It doesn't take into account any calls you made to increase or decrease previously.

To know how many dynamic servers are provisioned (servers that are starting, running or rebooting) you can call provisionedCount:

use Spatie\DynamicServers\Facades\DynamicServers;

DynamicServers::provisionedCount(); // returns an int