26 tho this include multi container services like immich or paperless who have 4 each.
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35 containers and everything is running stable and most of it is automatically updated. In case something breaks I have daily backups of everything.
I don't have access to my server right now, but it's around 20 containers on my little N100 box.
51 containers on my Unraid server, but only 39 running right now
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
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.
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).
Running home assistant with a few addons on a mostly dormant raspberry pi. This totals to 19 lines.
13 with podman on openSUSE MicroOS.
i used to have a few more but wasn't using them enough so i cut them.
61 containers in 26 docker files.
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.
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.
two, one for running discord backup viewer webui and the other for archiveteam warrior containers
About 62 deployments with 115 "pods"
13 running on my little Synology.
Actually more than I expected, I would have guesses closer to 8
$ docker ps | wc -l
14
Just running 13 myself.
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 sometimes with more resources or specialized hardware.
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25, with your "docker ps" command, on my aging Nuc10 PC. Only using 5GB of its 16GB of RAM.
What, me worry?
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Between 100 and 150.
@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.
89 - 79 on my main server and 10 on my sandbox.
Server01: 64 Server02: 19 Plus a bunch of sidecar containers solely for configs that aren't running.
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
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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:)
- There are usually one or two of those that are just experimental and might get trashed.
35 stacks 135 images 71 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.
My containers are running containers... At least 24.
74 across 2 proxmox nodes in a few lxcs
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.