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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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[–] StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

In my case, most things that I didn't explicitly make public are running on Tailscale using their own Tailscale containers.

Doing it this way each one gets their own address and I don't have to worry about port numbers. I can just type http://cars/ (Yes, I know. Not secure. Not worried about it) and get to my LubeLogger instance. But it also means I have 20ish copies of just the Tailscale container running.

On top of that, many services, like Nextcloud, are broken up into multiple containers. I think Nextcloud-aio alone has something like 5 or 6 containers it spins up, in addition to the master container. Tends to inflate the container numbers.

[–] white_nrdy@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago

Ironic that Nextcloud AIO spins up multiple...