{
  "id": "scale-deployment",
  "title": "Scaling a Deployment",
  "category": "Workloads",
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 4,
  "description": "## Scaling a Deployment\n\nA deployment named `webapp` is currently running with **1 replica**. Traffic has increased and you need to scale it up.\n\n**Your task:**\n\nScale the `webapp` deployment to **4 replicas** and verify all pods become Ready.",
  "hints": [
    {
      "title": "Scale imperatively",
      "body": "`kubectl scale` is the quickest way to change replica count without editing a YAML file.",
      "command": "kubectl scale deployment webapp --replicas=4"
    },
    {
      "title": "Verify the scale",
      "body": "Check READY column in `kubectl get deployment webapp` — it should show 4/4.",
      "command": "kubectl get deployment webapp"
    }
  ],
  "setup_commands": [
    {
      "command": "kubectl create deployment webapp --image=nginx:alpine --replicas=1"
    },
    {
      "command": "kubectl rollout status deployment/webapp --timeout=60s"
    }
  ],
  "validation": {
    "commands": [
      {
        "description": "Deployment 'webapp' has 4 replicas specified",
        "command": "kubectl get deployment webapp -o jsonpath='{.spec.replicas}'",
        "expected_output": "4",
        "match": "exact"
      },
      {
        "description": "Deployment 'webapp' has 4 ready replicas",
        "command": "kubectl get deployment webapp -o jsonpath='{.status.readyReplicas}' 2>/dev/null | grep -v '^$' || echo 0",
        "expected_output": "4",
        "match": "exact"
      }
    ]
  },
  "default_namespace": "default",
  "teardown_commands": [
    {
      "command": "kubectl delete deployment webapp --ignore-not-found"
    }
  ]
}