Scale down your Ansible Automation Platform Operator deployment

You can scale down all Ansible Automation Platform deployments and StatefulSets by using the idle_aap variable. This is useful for scenarios such as upgrades, migrations, or disaster recovery.

About this task

Procedure

  1. Log in to Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.
  2. Go to Operators > Installed Operators.
  3. Select your Ansible Automation Platform Operator deployment.
  4. Select All Instances and go to your AnsibleAutomationPlatform instance.
  5. Click the ⋮ icon and then select Edit AnsibleAutomationPlatform.
  6. In the YAML view paste the following YAML code under the spec: section: 
    idle_aap: true
  7. Click Save.

What to do next

Setting the idle_aap value to true scales down all active deployments. Setting the value to false scales the deployments back up.