OpenShift is a great PaaS for developing your webapp. When it gets to production however, you don”t want any downtime when you are deploying.
Luckily there is a simple fix (presuming you set up a scaling app).
Find the cartridge you want to scale (jbossews-2.0 on mine)
rhc show-app yourapp
should show you the cartridges
jbossews-2.0 (Tomcat 7 (JBoss EWS 2.0))
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Scaling: x2 (minimum: 2, maximum: 16) on small gears
haproxy-1.4 (Web Load Balancer)
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Gears: Located with jbossews-2.0
mongodb-2.2 (MongoDB 2.2)
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Gears: 1 small
Connection URL: mongodb://$OPENSHIFT_MONGODB_DB_HOST:$OPENSHIFT_MONGODB_DB_PORT/
Database Name: api
Password: ZlRiDvsyRqcZ
Username: admin
then run the following to set the minimum number of web workers to 2
rhc scale-cartridge --a api --min 2 --max 16 -c cartridge-name
Next enable hot deployment for your app by adding the following file to your app
.openshift/markers/hot_deploy