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Why can't you combine a fixed host port mapping with `docker compose up --scale`?

Multiple replicas would all try to bind the same single host port, which isn't possible — only one process can listen on a given host port. To scale, omit the fixed host port mapping and put a load balancer in front of the replicas instead.

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