# Do you really need to scale to zero?

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**Created:** [April 30, 2019, 9:56pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/do-you-really-need-to-scale-to-zero/33882 "2019-04-30T21:56:18Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 9:56pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/do-you-really-need-to-scale-to-zero/33882/1 "2019-04-30T21:56:18Z")

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Do you really need to scale to zero?

In the_FaaS_space, there_has been_a big push to allow the ability to scale down to no workload running. I want to ask: Is this something you_actually want_or_need?_ Scaling to zero allows containers to be run only when there is demand. For certain workloads, this gives a lot lower baseline resource usage and lets you scale down […]  
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