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How many containers are you all running? (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago by slazer2au@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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There is a post about getting overwhelmed by 15 containers and people not wanting to turn the post into a container measuring contest.

But now I am curious, what are your counts? I would guess those of you running k*s would win out by pod scaling

docker ps | wc -l

For those wanting a quick count.

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[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 36 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)
  1. Because I'm old, crusty, and prefer software deployments in a similar manner.
[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I salute you and wish you the best in never having a dependency conflict.

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I've been resolving them since the late 90s, no worries.

[–] Urist@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago

My worst dependency conflict was a libcurlssl error when trying to build on a precompiled base docker image.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Agreed. Im tired after work. Debian/yunohost is good enough.

At work its hundreds of docker containers but all ci/cd takes care of that.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Isn't that harder?

[–] thinkercharmercoderfarmer@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 months ago

It depends a lot on what you want to do and a little on what you're used to. It's some configuration overhead so it may not be worth the extra hassle if you're only running a few services (and they don't have dependency conflicts). IME once you pass a certain complexity level it becomes easier to run new services in containers, but if you're not sure how they'd benefit your setup, you're probably fine to not worry about it until it becomes a clear need.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

Me too!