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// * applications/idling-applications.adoc

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= Application idling

[role="_abstract"]
Identify the scalable resources for one or more services, such as deployment configurations and replication controllers, and scale them down to zero replicas to optimize cluster capacity.

You can use the `oc idle` command to idle a single service, or use the `--resource-names-file` option to idle multiple services.
