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

Run multiple instances across Cloudflare's network

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

TypeScript

```
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://developers.cloudflare.com/containers/platform-details/scaling-and-routing) for more details.

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