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- The environment variable ACS_INSTANCE was introduced to allow developers / testers to run several independent instances of ACS and related software on one machine, without getting side effects other than reduced resources.
- In operational environments this variable should not be used, or should be set to 0.
- instance 0 is the default set in .acs/.bash_profile
- instance 0 is privileged to other instance numbers because it allows running more containers per machine, see below.
- See also FAQAcsInstance
- Allowed value for ACS_INSTANCE are 0-9
- All ACS services (not daemons!) calculate their port number using ACS_INSTANCE as an offset.
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