Running home assistant with a few addons on a mostly dormant raspberry pi. This totals to 19 lines.
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At my house around 10 For lemmy.ca and our other sites, 35ish maybe. At work... hundreds.
About 62 deployments with 115 "pods"
61 containers in 26 docker files.
40 containers behind traefik, but I did just add a new sablier middleware to stop when iddle and start when first requested. Electricity is not cheap for me. But i got lucky to add 64GB RAM in my NAS and 128GB Ram in Desktop last march before prices went crazy
but I did just add a new sablier middleware to stop when iddle and start when first requested.
Would you mind expounding on this? Electricity is fairly affordable in my locale, however I've been on a mission to cut out consumption when it's not needed. Have you noticed an ROI?
yes as most service sleep, and time to spin them up is fast. Moreover some services continuously poll folders and avoid disks to sleep. Letting disks sleep the whole night is a good idea if not in use, this won't shorten their lifespan.
In here it is .30 pro Kwh
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36, with plans for more
two, one for running discord backup viewer webui and the other for archiveteam warrior containers
$ docker ps | wc -l
14
Just running 13 myself.
51 containers on my Unraid server, but only 39 running right now
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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Server01: 64 Server02: 19 Plus a bunch of sidecar containers solely for configs that aren't running.
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89 - 79 on my main server and 10 on my sandbox.
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
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.
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:)
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.
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.
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
My containers are running containers... At least 24.
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
I recently went from 0 to 1. Reinstalled my VPS under debian, and decided to run my forgejo instance with their rootless container. Mostly as a learning experience, but also to easily decouple the forgejo version from whichever version my distro packages.
41 containers running on Rocky Linux over here
Portainer says 14 (including itself) 😅
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.
3 that I'm actually using, on my "Home Server" (Raspberry Pi).
One day I will be migrating the work stuff on VPS over to Docker, and then we'll see who has the most!
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