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.
this post was submitted on 29 Jan 2026
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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
36, with plans for more
About 62 deployments with 115 "pods"
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.
Running home assistant with a few addons on a mostly dormant raspberry pi. This totals to 19 lines.
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
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.
That's a wee bit imbalanced. Is server 4 your big boi?
It's the oldest, but not the most powerful. Not everything I host sees a lot of activity. But things like Plex/Jellyfin/Immich found their own hardware with better GPU support, and serious A/V or disk intense processes have a full spec PC available. There is also a remote backup system in place so a couple containers are duplicates.
35 stacks 135 images 71 containers
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.
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:)
13 running on my little Synology.
Actually more than I expected, I would have guesses closer to 8
- There are usually one or two of those that are just experimental and might get trashed.
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.
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
9
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
Server01: 64 Server02: 19 Plus a bunch of sidecar containers solely for configs that aren't running.
89 - 79 on my main server and 10 on my sandbox.
My containers are running containers... At least 24.
@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.
53
74 across 2 proxmox nodes in a few lxcs
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.