Running home assistant with a few addons on a mostly dormant raspberry pi. This totals to 19 lines.
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51 containers on my Unraid server, but only 39 running right now
35 containers and everything is running stable and most of it is automatically updated. In case something breaks I have daily backups of everything.
64 containers in total, 60 running - the remaining 4 are Watchtowers that I run manually whenever I feel like it (and have time to fix things if something should break).
Uh.. Probably somewhere around 150?
26 tho this include multi container services like immich or paperless who have 4 each.
61 containers in 26 docker files.
I don't have access to my server right now, but it's around 20 containers on my little N100 box.
I have currently got 23 on my n97 mini pc and 3 on my raspberry pi 4, making 26 in total.
I have no issues managing these. I use docker compose for everything and have about 10 compose.yml files for the 23 containers.
49, I could imagine running all of those bare would be hard with dependencies
36, with plans for more
None, if it's not in a Debian repo I don't deploy it on my stable server.
It's not really about docker itself, I just don't think software has married enough if it's not packaged properly
13 with podman on openSUSE MicroOS.
i used to have a few more but wasn't using them enough so i cut them.
There is a post about getting overwhelmed by 15
I made the comment 'Just 15' in jest. It doesn't matter to me. Run 1, run 100. The comment was just poking the bear as it were. No harm nor foul intended. Sorry if it was received differently.
12 LXCs and 2 VMs on proxmox. Big fan of managing all the backups with the web ui (It's very easy to back to my NAS) and the helper scripts are pretty nice too. Nothing on docker right now, although i used to have a couple in a portainer LXC.
I'm running 3 or 4 I think... I'm more into dedicated VMs for some reason, so my important things are running in VMs in a proxmox cluster.
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
25, with your "docker ps" command, on my aging Nuc10 PC. Only using 5GB of its 16GB of RAM.
What, me worry?
$ docker ps | wc -l
14
Just running 13 myself.
My containers are running containers... At least 24.
53
Server01: 64 Server02: 19 Plus a bunch of sidecar containers solely for configs that aren't running.
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.
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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.
9
13 running on my little Synology.
Actually more than I expected, I would have guesses closer to 8
@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.
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
89 - 79 on my main server and 10 on my sandbox.
35 stacks 135 images 71 containers
- There are usually one or two of those that are just experimental and might get trashed.
74 across 2 proxmox nodes in a few lxcs