this post was submitted on 29 Jan 2026
118 points (97.6% liked)

Selfhosted

60074 readers
715 users here now

A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.

Rules:

  1. Be civil: we're here to support and learn from one another. Insults won't be tolerated. Flame wars are frowned upon.

  2. No spam.

  3. Posts here are to be centered around self-hosting. Please ensure it is clear in your post how it relates to self-hosting.

  4. Don't duplicate the full text of your blog or git here. Just post the link for folks to click.

  5. Submission headline should match the article title.

  6. No trolling.

Resources:

Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.

Questions? DM the mods!

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
ruud@lemmy.world
Loki@lemmy.world
CannaVet@lemmy.world
devve@lemmy.world
ayyy@sh.itjust.works
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus
curbstickle_lw@lemmy.world
118
How many containers are you all running? (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago by slazer2au@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
146 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] kmoney@lemmy.kmoneyserver.com 24 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

140 running containers and 33 stopped (that I spin up sometimes for specific tasks or testing new things), so 173 total on Unraid. I have them gouped into:

  • 118 Auto-updates (low chance of breaking updates or non-critical service that only I would notice if it breaks)
  • 55 Manual-updates (either it's family-facing e.g. Jellyfin, or it's got a high chance of breaking updates, or it updates very infrequently so I want to know when that happens, or it's something I want to keep particular note of or control over what time it updates e.g. Jellyfin when nobody's in the middle of watching something)

I subscribe to all their github release pages via FreshRSS and have them grouped into the Auto/Manual categories. Auto takes care of itself and I skim those release notes just to keep aware of any surprises. Manual usually has 1-5 releases each day so I spend 5-20 minutes reading those release notes a bit more closely and updating them as a group, or holding off until I have more bandwidth for troubleshooting if it looks like an involved update.

Since I put anything that might cause me grief if it breaks in the manual group, I can also just not pay attention to the system for a few days and everything keeps humming along. I just end up with a slightly longer manual update list when I come back to it.

[–] a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I’ve never looked into adding GitHub releases to FreshRSS. Any tips for getting that set up? Is it pretty straight forward?

[–] perishthethought@piefed.social 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I just added this URL for Jellyfin and it "just worked":

https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/releases

[–] a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

thanks, I'll look into it. Much appreciated

[–] kmoney@lemmy.kmoneyserver.com 2 points 4 months ago

I added the bookmarklet to my bookmarks bar so it's pretty easy to just navigate to the releases page on github and hit the button. I change the "visibility" setting to "show in its category" so things stay in their lanes rather than all go in a communal main feed but otherwise leave it as default.

I did have to add some filters to the categories so it wouldn't flag all the -dev/-rc releases but that's it. The filters that work for me are:

intitle:prototype-
intitle:-build-number
intitle:rc5
intitle:rc6
intitle:rc7
intitle:rc8
intitle:rc9
intitle:-dev.
intitle:Beta
intitle:preview-
intitle:rc1
intitle:rc2
intitle:rc3
intitle:rc4
intitle:"Release Candidate"
intitle:Alpha
intitle:-rc
intitle:-alpha
intitle:-beta
intitle:develop-
intitle:"Development release"
intitle:Pre-Release