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description: Run multiple instances across Cloudflare's network
title: Stateless Instances
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# Stateless Instances

Run multiple instances across Cloudflare's network

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To simply proxy requests to one of multiple instances of a container, you can use the `getRandom` function:

```ts
import { Container, getRandom } from "@cloudflare/containers";

const INSTANCE_COUNT = 3;

class Backend extends Container {
	defaultPort = 8080;
	sleepAfter = "2h";
}

export default {
	async fetch(request: Request, env: Env): Promise<Response> {
		const containerInstance = await getRandom(env.BACKEND, INSTANCE_COUNT);
		return containerInstance.fetch(request);
	},
};
```

Note

This example uses `getRandom`, which randomly selects one of a fixed number of Container instances for each request.

In the future, we will provide improved latency-aware load balancing and autoscaling.

This will make scaling stateless instances simple and routing more efficient. See the [autoscaling documentation](https://4f1c5cd2.previews.developers.cloudflare.com/containers/platform-details/scaling-and-routing) for more details.

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