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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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[–] BrightCandle@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

31 Containers in all. I have been up as high as ~60 and have paired it back removing the things I wasn't using.

I also tend to remove anything that uses appreciable CPU at idle and I rarely run applications that require further containers in a stack just to boot, my needs aren't that heavy.

[–] eodur@piefed.social 2 points 9 months ago

My kubernetes cluster is sitting happily at 240, and technically those are pods some of which have up to 3 or 4 containers, so who knows the full number.

[–] keyez@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Right now I'm at 33 with 3 stopped I haven't used in a while. Also got 3 VMs running. A handful are duplicates eg redis/postgresql/photon/caddy

[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago
  1. There are usually one or two of those that are just experimental and might get trashed.
[–] RockChai@piefed.social 2 points 9 months ago

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:)

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 months ago

37 between ProxMox and CasaOS.

[–] eksb@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago
[–] jgkawell@mastodon.world 2 points 9 months ago

@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.

[–] Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's a wee bit imbalanced. Is server 4 your big boi?

[–] Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com 2 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] KevinNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

41 containers running on Rocky Linux over here

[–] antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 months ago
[–] dai@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Running 50 on one machine, four on my fileserver and another on a hacked up hp eliteone (no screen) which runs my 3d printer. Believe my immich container is a nspawn under nixos too. 

Some are a wip but the majority are in use. Mostly internal services with a couple internet facing, I've got a good backlog of work to do on some with some refactoring my nixos configs for many too 😅. 

From my Erying ES system: 

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Assuming Cloudflare Tunnels/Zero Trust, how does that run in a container. I was vacillating between installing traditionally, or Docker and decided on the former. So I've always been curious as to how it performed.

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