diff --git a/docker/docker-compose.yml b/docker/docker-compose.yml
index 277f300e4c..65bdafe8b8 100644
--- a/docker/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker/docker-compose.yml
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ services:
     image: "${DOCKER_REPO}/${JS_EXECUTOR_DOCKER_NAME}:${TB_VERSION}"
     # 'deploy.replicas' configuration is not supported in docker-compose
     # in case outdated docker-compose is used please update next line in docker-start-services.sh file to scale tb-js-executors:
-    # docker-compose scale tb-js-executor=10
+    # docker-compose $COMPOSE_ARGS --scale tb-js-executor=10
     deploy:
       replicas: 10
     env_file:
diff --git a/docker/docker-start-services.sh b/docker/docker-start-services.sh
index 1532898a99..0ee6c3abd2 100755
--- a/docker/docker-start-services.sh
+++ b/docker/docker-start-services.sh
@@ -40,8 +40,7 @@ case $COMPOSE_VERSION in
         docker compose $COMPOSE_ARGS
     ;;
     V1)
-        docker-compose $COMPOSE_ARGS
-        docker-compose scale tb-js-executor=10
+        docker-compose $COMPOSE_ARGS --scale tb-js-executor=10
     ;;
     *)
         # unknown option