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title: Runtime Policies
long_title: Application Policies
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description:
Learn about application containers, VMs, zero-touch management and configuration, security, and scale based on the demand from clients
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Learn how auto-scaling can help you use the appropriate computing resources depending on your application needs. You can define your target load for things like CPU, memory, and active connections through our auto-scale policy. We have other policies that also help auto-deploy your applications based on those policies you define and high availability to ensure your applications do not experience downtime and are continuously available and operational on cloudlets in the event that the cloudlet(s) become unreachable.