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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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[–] drkt@scribe.disroot.org 16 points 1 week ago (6 children)

All of you bragging about 100+ containers, please may in inquire as to what the fuck that's about? What are you doing with all of those?

[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 2 points 5 days ago

Kube makes it easy to have a lot, as a lot of things you need to deploy on every node just deploy on every node. As odd as it sounds, the number of containers provides redundancy that makes the hobby easy. If a Zimaboard dies or messes up, I just nuke it, and I don't care whats on it.

[–] StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 week 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 1 week ago

Ironic that Nextcloud AIO spins up multiple...

[–] kmoney@lemmy.kmoneyserver.com 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

A little of this, a little of that...I may also have a problem... >_>;

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[–] drkt@scribe.disroot.org 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I look at this list and cry a little bit inside. I can't imagine having to maintain all of this as a hobby.

[–] F04118F@feddit.nl 1 points 2 days ago

Dococd + renovate goes brrr

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 week ago

From a quick glance I can imagine many of those services don't need much maintenance if any. E.g. RickRoll likely never needs any maintenance beyond the initial setup.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Things and stuff. There is the web front end, API to the back end, the database, the redis cache, mqtt message queues.

And that is just for one of my web crawlers.

/S

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Not bragging. It is what it is. I run a plethora of things and that's just on the production server. I probably have an additional 10 on the test server.

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

100 containers isn’t really a lot. Projects often use 2-3 containers. Thats only something like 30-50 services.