---
title: Scale your deployment
description: Lean how to scale Docker Trusted Registry by adding and removing replicas.
keywords: docker, dtr, install, deploy
---

Docker Trusted Registry is designed to scale horizontally as your usage
increases. You can add or remove replicas to make DTR scale to your needs
or for high availability.

![](../images/scale-your-deployment-1.svg)

To set up DTR for [high availability](../high-availability/index.md),
you can add more replicas to your DTR cluster. Adding more replicas allows you
to load-balance requests across all replicas, and keep DTR working if a
replica fails.

For high-availability you should set 3, 5, or 7 DTR replicas. The nodes where
you're going to install these replicas also need to be managed by UCP.

## Join more DTR replicas

To add replicas to an existing DTR deployment:

1. Use ssh to log into a node that is already part of UCP.

2.  Run the DTR join command:

    ```none
    docker run -it --rm \
      docker/dtr join \
      --ucp-node <ucp-node-name> \
      --ucp-insecure-tls
    ```

    Where the `--ucp-node` is the hostname of the UCP node where you want to
    deploy the DTR replica. `--ucp-insecure-tls` tells the command to trust the
    certificates used by UCP.

3. If you have a load balancer, add this DTR replica to the load balancing pool.

## Remove existing replicas

To remove a DTR replica from your deployment:

1. Use ssh to log into a node that is already part of UCP.
2.  Run the DTR remove command:

```none
docker run -it --rm \
  docker/dtr remove \
  --ucp-insecure-tls
```

You will be prompted for:

* Existing replica id: the id of any healthy DTR replica of that cluster
* Replica id: the id of the DTR replica you want to remove. It can be the id of an
unhealthy replica
* UCP username and password: the administrator credentials for UCP

If you're load-balancing user requests across multiple DTR replicas, don't
forget to remove this replica from the load balancing pool.

## Where to go next

* [Install DTR](index.md)
* [Uninstall DTR](uninstall.md)