diff --git a/backend/crawlconfigs.py b/backend/crawlconfigs.py
index 656b5ced..294bffec 100644
--- a/backend/crawlconfigs.py
+++ b/backend/crawlconfigs.py
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ class CrawlConfigIn(BaseModel):
     runNow: Optional[bool] = False
 
     crawlTimeout: Optional[int] = 0
+    parallel: Optional[int] = 1
 
     config: RawCrawlConfig
 
@@ -94,6 +95,7 @@ class CrawlConfig(BaseMongoModel):
     config: RawCrawlConfig
 
     crawlTimeout: Optional[int] = 0
+    parallel: Optional[int] = 1
 
     crawlCount: Optional[int] = 0
 
diff --git a/backend/crawls.py b/backend/crawls.py
index 3508f4ab..202495f7 100644
--- a/backend/crawls.py
+++ b/backend/crawls.py
@@ -2,12 +2,13 @@
 
 import asyncio
 
-from typing import Optional, List
+from typing import Optional, List, Dict
 from datetime import datetime
 
 from fastapi import Depends, HTTPException
 from pydantic import BaseModel
 import pymongo
+import aioredis
 
 from db import BaseMongoModel
 from archives import Archive
@@ -20,6 +21,13 @@ class DeleteCrawlList(BaseModel):
     crawl_ids: List[str]
 
 
+# ============================================================================
+class CrawlScale(BaseModel):
+    """ scale the crawl to N parallel containers """
+
+    scale: int = 1
+
+
 # ============================================================================
 class Crawl(BaseMongoModel):
     """ Store State of a Crawl (Finished or Running) """
@@ -36,6 +44,10 @@ class Crawl(BaseMongoModel):
 
     state: str
 
+    scale: int = 1
+
+    stats: Optional[Dict[str, str]]
+
     filename: Optional[str]
     size: Optional[int]
     hash: Optional[str]
@@ -60,14 +72,22 @@ class CrawlCompleteIn(BaseModel):
 class CrawlOps:
     """ Crawl Ops """
 
-    def __init__(self, mdb, crawl_manager, crawl_configs, archives):
+    # pylint: disable=too-many-arguments
+    def __init__(self, mdb, redis_url, crawl_manager, crawl_configs, archives):
         self.crawls = mdb["crawls"]
         self.crawl_manager = crawl_manager
         self.crawl_configs = crawl_configs
         self.archives = archives
 
+        self.redis = None
+        asyncio.create_task(self.init_redis(redis_url))
+
         self.crawl_manager.set_crawl_ops(self)
 
+    async def init_redis(self, redis_url):
+        """ init redis async """
+        self.redis = await aioredis.from_url(redis_url)
+
     async def on_handle_crawl_complete(self, msg: CrawlCompleteIn):
         """ Handle completed crawl, add to crawls db collection, also update archive usage """
         crawl = await self.crawl_manager.validate_crawl_complete(msg)
@@ -99,8 +119,10 @@ class CrawlOps:
 
         await self.crawl_configs.inc_crawls(crawl.cid)
 
-    async def list_crawls(self, aid: str, cid: str = None):
-        """Get all crawl configs for an archive is a member of"""
+        return True
+
+    async def list_db_crawls(self, aid: str, cid: str = None):
+        """List all finished crawls from the db """
         query = {"aid": aid}
         if cid:
             query["cid"] = cid
@@ -109,6 +131,42 @@ class CrawlOps:
         results = await cursor.to_list(length=1000)
         return [Crawl.from_dict(res) for res in results]
 
+    async def list_crawls(self, aid: str):
+        """ list finished and running crawl data """
+        running_crawls = await self.crawl_manager.list_running_crawls(aid=aid)
+
+        await self.get_redis_stats(running_crawls)
+
+        finished_crawls = await self.list_db_crawls(aid)
+
+        return {
+            "running": [
+                crawl.dict(exclude_none=True, exclude_unset=True)
+                for crawl in running_crawls
+            ],
+            "finished": finished_crawls,
+        }
+
+    # pylint: disable=too-many-arguments
+    async def get_redis_stats(self, crawl_list):
+        """ Add additional live crawl stats from redis """
+        results = None
+
+        def pairwise(iterable):
+            val = iter(iterable)
+            return zip(val, val)
+
+        async with self.redis.pipeline(transaction=True) as pipe:
+            for crawl in crawl_list:
+                key = crawl.id
+                pipe.llen(f"{key}:d")
+                pipe.scard(f"{key}:s")
+
+            results = await pipe.execute()
+
+        for crawl, (done, total) in zip(crawl_list, pairwise(results)):
+            crawl.stats = {"done": done, "found": total}
+
     async def delete_crawls(self, aid: str, delete_list: DeleteCrawlList):
         """ Delete a list of crawls by id for given archive """
         res = await self.crawls.delete_many(
@@ -118,10 +176,11 @@ class CrawlOps:
 
 
 # ============================================================================
-def init_crawls_api(app, mdb, crawl_manager, crawl_config_ops, archives):
+# pylint: disable=too-many-arguments
+def init_crawls_api(app, mdb, redis_url, crawl_manager, crawl_config_ops, archives):
     """ API for crawl management, including crawl done callback"""
 
-    ops = CrawlOps(mdb, crawl_manager, crawl_config_ops, archives)
+    ops = CrawlOps(mdb, redis_url, crawl_manager, crawl_config_ops, archives)
 
     archive_crawl_dep = archives.archive_crawl_dep
 
@@ -134,19 +193,7 @@ def init_crawls_api(app, mdb, crawl_manager, crawl_config_ops, archives):
 
     @app.get("/archives/{aid}/crawls", tags=["crawls"])
     async def list_crawls(archive: Archive = Depends(archive_crawl_dep)):
-        aid = str(archive.id)
-
-        running_crawls = await crawl_manager.list_running_crawls(aid=aid)
-
-        finished_crawls = await ops.list_crawls(aid)
-
-        return {
-            "running": [
-                crawl.dict(exclude_none=True, exclude_unset=True)
-                for crawl in running_crawls
-            ],
-            "finished": finished_crawls,
-        }
+        return await ops.list_crawls(archive.id)
 
     @app.post(
         "/archives/{aid}/crawls/{crawl_id}/cancel",
@@ -207,3 +254,17 @@ def init_crawls_api(app, mdb, crawl_manager, crawl_config_ops, archives):
         res = await ops.delete_crawls(archive.id, delete_list)
 
         return {"deleted": res}
+
+    @app.post(
+        "/archives/{aid}/crawls/{crawl_id}/scale",
+        tags=["crawls"],
+    )
+    async def scale_crawl(
+        scale: CrawlScale, crawl_id, archive: Archive = Depends(archive_crawl_dep)
+    ):
+
+        error = await crawl_manager.scale_crawl(crawl_id, archive.id, scale.scale)
+        if error:
+            raise HTTPException(status_code=400, detail=error)
+
+        return {"scaled": scale.scale}
diff --git a/backend/dockerman.py b/backend/dockerman.py
index ec1a6bb1..98aef8f0 100644
--- a/backend/dockerman.py
+++ b/backend/dockerman.py
@@ -15,10 +15,10 @@ from tempfile import NamedTemporaryFile
 import aiodocker
 import aioprocessing
 
-from crawls import Crawl
-
 from scheduler import run_scheduler
 
+from crawls import Crawl
+
 
 # ============================================================================
 class DockerManager:
@@ -260,6 +260,10 @@ class DockerManager:
 
         return crawl
 
+    async def scale_crawl(self): # job_name, aid, parallelism=1):
+        """ Scale running crawl, currently only supported in k8s"""
+        return "Not Supported"
+
     async def delete_crawl_config_by_id(self, cid):
         """ Delete Crawl Config by Crawl Config Id"""
         await self._delete_volume_by_labels([f"btrix.crawlconfig={cid}"])
@@ -346,7 +350,13 @@ class DockerManager:
     # pylint: disable=too-many-arguments
     async def _run_crawl_now(self, storage, labels, volume, schedule="", manual=True):
         # Set Run Config
-        command = ["crawl", "--config", "/tmp/crawlconfig/crawl-config.json"]
+        command = [
+            "crawl",
+            "--config",
+            "/tmp/crawlconfig/crawl-config.json",
+            "--redisStoreUrl",
+            "redis://redis:6379/0",
+        ]
 
         if self.extra_crawl_params:
             command += self.extra_crawl_params
diff --git a/backend/k8sman.py b/backend/k8sman.py
index af7ce214..dd1d8df5 100644
--- a/backend/k8sman.py
+++ b/backend/k8sman.py
@@ -12,8 +12,9 @@ from crawls import Crawl
 
 
 # ============================================================================
-DEFAULT_NAMESPACE = os.environ.get("CRAWLER_NAMESPACE") or "crawlers"
+CRAWLER_NAMESPACE = os.environ.get("CRAWLER_NAMESPACE") or "crawlers"
 
+# an 2/31 schedule that will never run as empty is not allowed
 DEFAULT_NO_SCHEDULE = "* * 31 2 *"
 
 
@@ -22,7 +23,7 @@ class K8SManager:
     # pylint: disable=too-many-instance-attributes,too-many-locals,too-many-arguments
     """K8SManager, manager creation of k8s resources from crawl api requests"""
 
-    def __init__(self, extra_crawl_params=None, namespace=DEFAULT_NAMESPACE):
+    def __init__(self, namespace=CRAWLER_NAMESPACE):
         config.load_incluster_config()
 
         self.crawl_ops = None
@@ -33,7 +34,7 @@ class K8SManager:
         self.batch_beta_api = client.BatchV1beta1Api()
 
         self.namespace = namespace
-        self.extra_crawl_params = extra_crawl_params or []
+        print(self.namespace, flush=True)
 
         self.crawler_image = os.environ.get("CRAWLER_IMAGE")
         self.crawler_image_pull_policy = "IfNotPresent"
@@ -138,7 +139,11 @@ class K8SManager:
         suspend, schedule, run_now = self._get_schedule_suspend_run_now(crawlconfig)
 
         job_template = self._get_job_template(
-            cid, labels, annotations, crawlconfig.crawlTimeout, self.extra_crawl_params
+            cid,
+            labels,
+            annotations,
+            crawlconfig.crawlTimeout,
+            crawlconfig.parallel,
         )
 
         spec = client.V1beta1CronJobSpec(
@@ -286,6 +291,31 @@ class K8SManager:
 
         return result
 
+    async def scale_crawl(self, job_name, aid, parallelism=1):
+        """ Set the crawl scale (job parallelism) on the specified job """
+
+        try:
+            job = await self.batch_api.read_namespaced_job(
+                name=job_name, namespace=self.namespace
+            )
+        # pylint: disable=broad-except
+        except Exception:
+            return "Crawl not found"
+
+        if not job or job.metadata.labels["btrix.archive"] != aid:
+            return "Invalid Crawled"
+
+        if parallelism < 1 or parallelism > 10:
+            return "Invalid Scale: Must be between 1 and 10"
+
+        job.spec.parallelism = parallelism
+
+        await self.batch_api.patch_namespaced_job(
+            name=job.metadata.name, namespace=self.namespace, body=job
+        )
+
+        return None
+
     async def delete_crawl_configs_for_archive(self, archive):
         """Delete all crawl configs for given archive"""
         return await self._delete_crawl_configs(f"btrix.archive={archive}")
@@ -307,9 +337,12 @@ class K8SManager:
 
         crawl = self._make_crawl_for_job(job, reason, True)
 
-        await self.crawl_ops.store_crawl(crawl)
+        # if update succeeds, than crawl has not completed, so likely a failure
+        failure = await self.crawl_ops.store_crawl(crawl)
 
-        await self._delete_job(job_name)
+        # keep failed jobs around, for now
+        if not failure:
+            await self._delete_job(job_name)
 
     # ========================================================================
     # Internal Methods
@@ -322,6 +355,7 @@ class K8SManager:
         return Crawl(
             id=job.metadata.name,
             state=state,
+            scale=job.spec.parallelism or 1,
             user=job.metadata.labels["btrix.user"],
             aid=job.metadata.labels["btrix.archive"],
             cid=job.metadata.labels["btrix.crawlconfig"],
@@ -455,16 +489,9 @@ class K8SManager:
             body=job, namespace=self.namespace
         )
 
-    def _get_job_template(
-        self, uid, labels, annotations, crawl_timeout, extra_crawl_params
-    ):
+    def _get_job_template(self, uid, labels, annotations, crawl_timeout, parallel):
         """Return crawl job template for crawl job, including labels, adding optiona crawl params"""
 
-        command = ["crawl", "--config", "/tmp/crawl-config.json"]
-
-        if extra_crawl_params:
-            command += extra_crawl_params
-
         requests_memory = "256M"
         limit_memory = "1G"
 
@@ -486,6 +513,7 @@ class K8SManager:
             "metadata": {"annotations": annotations},
             "spec": {
                 "backoffLimit": self.crawl_retries,
+                "parallelism": parallel,
                 "template": {
                     "metadata": {"labels": labels},
                     "spec": {
@@ -494,7 +522,11 @@ class K8SManager:
                                 "name": "crawler",
                                 "image": self.crawler_image,
                                 "imagePullPolicy": "Never",
-                                "command": command,
+                                "command": [
+                                    "crawl",
+                                    "--config",
+                                    "/tmp/crawl-config.json",
+                                ],
                                 "volumeMounts": [
                                     {
                                         "name": "crawl-config",
@@ -504,7 +536,8 @@ class K8SManager:
                                     }
                                 ],
                                 "envFrom": [
-                                    {"secretRef": {"name": f"crawl-secret-{uid}"}}
+                                    {"configMapRef": {"name": "shared-crawler-config"}},
+                                    {"secretRef": {"name": f"crawl-secret-{uid}"}},
                                 ],
                                 "env": [
                                     {
diff --git a/backend/main.py b/backend/main.py
index a82b5bbc..174c8b99 100644
--- a/backend/main.py
+++ b/backend/main.py
@@ -9,11 +9,11 @@ from fastapi import FastAPI, Request, HTTPException
 
 from db import init_db
 
+from emailsender import EmailSender
 from users import init_users_api, UserDB
 from archives import init_archives_api
 from crawlconfigs import init_crawl_config_api
 from crawls import init_crawls_api
-from emailsender import EmailSender
 
 app = FastAPI()
 
@@ -38,14 +38,6 @@ class BrowsertrixAPI:
         self.email = EmailSender()
         self.crawl_manager = None
 
-        self.default_crawl_params = [
-            "--timeout",
-            "90",
-            "--logging",
-            "behaviors,debug",
-            "--generateWACZ",
-        ]
-
         self.mdb = init_db()
 
         self.fastapi_users = init_users_api(
@@ -66,13 +58,11 @@ class BrowsertrixAPI:
         if os.environ.get("KUBERNETES_SERVICE_HOST"):
             from k8sman import K8SManager
 
-            self.crawl_manager = K8SManager(self.default_crawl_params)
+            self.crawl_manager = K8SManager()
         else:
             from dockerman import DockerManager
 
-            self.crawl_manager = DockerManager(
-                self.archive_ops, self.default_crawl_params
-            )
+            self.crawl_manager = DockerManager(self.archive_ops)
 
         self.crawl_config_ops = init_crawl_config_api(
             self.mdb,
@@ -84,6 +74,7 @@ class BrowsertrixAPI:
         init_crawls_api(
             self.app,
             self.mdb,
+            os.environ.get("REDIS_URL"),
             self.crawl_manager,
             self.crawl_config_ops,
             self.archive_ops,
diff --git a/backend/requirements.txt b/backend/requirements.txt
index b58e21bd..48edb2c3 100644
--- a/backend/requirements.txt
+++ b/backend/requirements.txt
@@ -6,3 +6,4 @@ kubernetes-asyncio
 aiodocker
 apscheduler
 aioprocessing
+aioredis
diff --git a/chart/templates/main.yaml b/chart/templates/main.yaml
index f8d63975..89784d86 100644
--- a/chart/templates/main.yaml
+++ b/chart/templates/main.yaml
@@ -1,51 +1,10 @@
----
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: ConfigMap
-metadata:
-  name: {{ .Values.name }}-env-config
-  namespace: {{ .Release.Namespace }}
-
-data:
-  MONGO_HOST: {{ .Values.mongo_host }}
-
-  CRAWLER_NAMESPACE: {{ .Values.crawler_namespace }}
-  CRAWLER_IMAGE: {{ .Values.crawler_image }}
-
-  CRAWL_TIMEOUT: "{{ .Values.crawl_timeout }}"
-  CRAWL_RETRIES: "{{ .Values.crawl_retries }}"
-
-
----
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: Secret
-metadata:
-  name: storage-auth
-  namespace: {{ .Release.Namespace }}
-
-type: Opaque
-stringData:
-  PASSWORD_SECRET: "{{ .Values.api_password_secret }}"
-
-{{- if .Values.minio_local }}
-  MINIO_ROOT_USER: "{{ .Values.storage.access_key }}"
-  MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD: "{{ .Values.storage.secret_key }}"
-
-  MC_HOST: "{{ .Values.minio_scheme }}://{{ .Values.storage.access_key }}:{{ .Values.storage.secret_key }}@{{ .Values.minio_host }}"
-{{- end }}
- 
-  STORE_ACCESS_KEY: "{{ .Values.storage.access_key }}"
-  STORE_SECRET_KEY: "{{ .Values.storage.secret_key }}"
-  STORE_ENDPOINT_URL: "{{ .Values.storage.endpoint }}"
-  #S3_FORCE_PATH_STYLE: "{{ .Values.storage.force_path_style | quote }}"
-
-
-
 ---
 apiVersion: apps/v1
 kind: Deployment
 metadata:
   name: {{ .Values.name }}
   namespace: {{ .Release.Namespace }}
+
 spec:
   selector:
     matchLabels:
@@ -56,6 +15,10 @@ spec:
       labels:
         app: {{ .Values.name }}
 
+      annotations:
+        # force helm to update the deployment each time
+        "helm.update": {{ randAlphaNum 5 | quote }}
+
     spec:
 
 {{- if .Values.minio_local }}
diff --git a/chart/templates/namespaces.yaml b/chart/templates/namespaces.yaml
index e5747d93..fb4bc2de 100644
--- a/chart/templates/namespaces.yaml
+++ b/chart/templates/namespaces.yaml
@@ -4,3 +4,5 @@ metadata:
   name: {{ .Values.crawler_namespace }}
   labels:
     release: {{ .Release.Name }}
+  annotations:
+    "helm.sh/resource-policy": keep
diff --git a/chart/values.yaml b/chart/values.yaml
index 53599f2b..f7a0072d 100644
--- a/chart/values.yaml
+++ b/chart/values.yaml
@@ -33,6 +33,17 @@ mongo_auth:
   password: example 
 
 
+# Redis Image
+# =========================================
+redis_local: true
+
+redis_image: "redis"
+redis_pull_policy: "IfNotPresent"
+
+redis_url: "redis://local-redis.default:6379/1"
+
+
+
 # Crawler Image
 # =========================================
 
@@ -44,6 +55,10 @@ crawler_namespace: "crawlers"
 # num retries
 crawl_retries: 1
 
+# browsertrix-crawler args:
+crawler_args: "--timeout 90 --logging stats,behaviors,debug --generateWACZ"
+
+
 
 # Storage
 # =========================================
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index 9805fe92..89dc8700 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -16,12 +16,21 @@ services:
     depends_on:
       - minio
       - mongo
-      - scheduler
+
+  redis:
+    image: redis
+    command: redis-server --appendonly yes
+
+    ports:
+      - 6379:6379
+
+    volumes:
+      - btrix-redis-data:/data
 
   mongo:
     image: mongo
     volumes:
-      - mongodata:/data/db
+      - btrix-mongo-data:/data/db
 
     env_file:
       - ./config.env
@@ -34,7 +43,7 @@ services:
       - 9001:9001
 
     volumes:
-      - miniodata:/data
+      - btrix-minio-data:/data
 
     env_file:
       - ./config.env
@@ -52,8 +61,9 @@ services:
 
 
 volumes:
-  mongodata:
-  miniodata:
+  btrix-redis-data:
+  btrix-mongo-data:
+  btrix-minio-data:
 
 
 networks: