Running home assistant with a few addons on a mostly dormant raspberry pi. This totals to 19 lines.
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About 50 on a k8s cluster, then 12 more on a proxmox vm running debian and about 20 ish on some Hetzner auction servers.
About 80 in total, but lots more at work:)
44 containers and my average load over 15 min is still 0,41 on an old Intel nuc.
26 tho this include multi container services like immich or paperless who have 4 each.
35 containers and everything is running stable and most of it is automatically updated. In case something breaks I have daily backups of everything.
Well the containers are grouped into services. I would easily have 15 services running, some run a separate postgres or redis while others do an internal sqlite so hard to say (I'm not where I can look rn).
If we're counting containers then between Nextcloud and Home Assistant I'm probably over 20 already lol.
11 running on my little N150 box. Barely ever breaks a sweat.
At my house around 10-15. For lemmy.ca and our other sites, 35ish maybe. At work... hundreds.
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58, my cpu is usually around 10-20% usage. I really don’t have any trouble managing/maintaining these. Things break almost weekly but I understand how to fix them every time, it only takes a few minutes
Server01: 64 Server02: 19 Plus a bunch of sidecar containers solely for configs that aren't running.
I don't have access to my server right now, but it's around 20 containers on my little N100 box.
89 - 79 on my main server and 10 on my sandbox.
51 containers on my Unraid server, but only 39 running right now
@slazer2au Application containers: 30-40
System containers (including kube, Istio, CNI, etc): ~20
Shifting from Istio sidecar mode to Istio ambient mode made a big difference.
Between 100 and 150.
25, with your "docker ps" command, on my aging Nuc10 PC. Only using 5GB of its 16GB of RAM.
What, me worry?
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Server 1: 5 containers Server 2: 4 containers Server 3: 4 containers Server 4: 61 containers
Basically if a container is a resource hog, it gets moved somewhere with more resources or specialized hardware.
That's a wee bit imbalanced. Is server 4 your big boi?
It's the oldest, but not the most powerful. Not everything I host sees a lot of activity. But things like Plex/Jellyfin/Immich found their own hardware with better GPU support, and serious A/V or disk intense processes have a full spec PC available. There is also a remote backup system in place so a couple containers are duplicates.
$ docker ps | wc -l
14
Just running 13 myself.