Updates handling of scale/replicas args in CLI & compose file (Issue: containers#267)

Signed-off-by: Yashodhan Pise <[email protected]>

Author: me-coder

podman_compose.py

@@ -2080,7 +2080,22 @@ def _parse_compose_file(self):
         container_names_by_service = {}
         self.services = services
         for service_name, service_desc in services.items():
-            replicas = try_int(service_desc.get("deploy", {}).get("replicas"), fallback=1)
+            replicas = 1
+            if "scale" in args and args.scale is not None:
+                # Check `--scale` args from CLI command
+                scale_args = (args.scale.split('='))
+                replicas = try_int(scale_args[1], fallback=1) if service_name == scale_args[0] else 1
+            elif "scale" in service_desc:
+                # Check `scale` value from compose yaml file
+                replicas = try_int(service_desc.get("scale"), fallback=1)
+            elif (
+                "deploy" in service_desc
+                and "replicas" in service_desc.get("deploy", {})
+                and "replicated" == service_desc.get("deploy", {}).get("mode", '')
+            ):
+                # Check `deploy: replicas:` value from compose yaml file
+                # Note: All conditions are necessary to handle case
+                replicas = try_int(service_desc.get("deploy", {}).get("replicas"), fallback=1)
 
             container_names_by_service[service_name] = []
             for num in range(1, replicas + 1):
@@ -3366,12 +3381,13 @@ def compose_up_parse(parser):
         action="store_true",
         help="Remove containers for services not defined in the Compose file.",
     )
+    # `--scale` argument needs to store as single valye and not append,
+    # as multiple scale values could be confusing.
     parser.add_argument(
         "--scale",
-        metavar="SERVICE=NUM",
-        action="append",
         help="Scale SERVICE to NUM instances. Overrides the `scale` setting in the Compose file if "
         "present.",
+        metavar="SERVICE=NUM",
     )
     parser.add_argument(
         "--exit-code-from",