- Because I'm old, crusty, and prefer software deployments in a similar manner.
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I salute you and wish you the best in never having a dependency conflict.
I've been resolving them since the late 90s, no worries.
Agreed. Im tired after work. Debian/yunohost is good enough.
At work its hundreds of docker containers but all ci/cd takes care of that.
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140 running containers and 33 stopped (that I spin up sometimes for specific tasks or testing new things), so 173 total on Unraid. I have them gouped into:
- 118 Auto-updates (low chance of breaking updates or non-critical service that only I would notice if it breaks)
- 55 Manual-updates (either it's family-facing e.g. Jellyfin, or it's got a high chance of breaking updates, or it updates very infrequently so I want to know when that happens, or it's something I want to keep particular note of or control over what time it updates e.g. Jellyfin when nobody's in the middle of watching something)
I subscribe to all their github release pages via FreshRSS and have them grouped into the Auto/Manual categories. Auto takes care of itself and I skim those release notes just to keep aware of any surprises. Manual usually has 1-5 releases each day so I spend 5-20 minutes reading those release notes a bit more closely and updating them as a group, or holding off until I have more bandwidth for troubleshooting if it looks like an involved update.
Since I put anything that might cause me grief if it breaks in the manual group, I can also just not pay attention to the system for a few days and everything keeps humming along. I just end up with a slightly longer manual update list when I come back to it.
I’ve never looked into adding GitHub releases to FreshRSS. Any tips for getting that set up? Is it pretty straight forward?
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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?
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.
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A little of this, a little of that...I may also have a problem... >_>;
The List
Quickstart
- dockersocket
- ddns-updater
- duckdns
- swag
- omada-controller
- netdata
- vaultwarden
- GluetunVPN
- crowdsec
Databases
- postgresql14
- postgresql16
- postgresql17
- Influxdb
- redis
- Valkey
- mariadb
- nextcloud
- Ntfy
- PostgreSQL_Immich
- postgresql17-postgis
- victoria-metrics
- prometheus
- MySQL
- meilisearch
Database Admin
- pgadmin4
- adminer
- Chronograf
- RedisInsight
- mongo-express
- WhoDB
- dbgate
- ChartDB
- CloudBeaver
Database Exporters
- prometheus-qbittorrent-exporter
- prometheus-immich-exporter
- prometheus-postgres-exporter
- Scraparr
Networking Admin
- heimdall
- Dozzle
- Glances
- it-tools
- OpenSpeedTest-HTML5
- Docker-WebUI
- web-check
- networking-toolbox
Legally Acquired Media Display
- plex
- jellyfin
- tautulli
- Jellystat
- ErsatzTV
- posterr
- jellyplex-watched
- jfa-go
- medialytics
- PlexAniSync
- Ampcast
- freshrss
- Jellyfin-Newsletter
- Movie-Roulette
Education
- binhex-qbittorrentvpn
- flaresolverr
- binhex-prowlarr
- sonarr
- radarr
- jellyseerr
- bazarr
- qbit_manage
- autobrr
- cleanuparr
- unpackerr
- binhex-bitmagnet
- omegabrr
Books
- BookLore
- calibre
- Storyteller
Storage
- LubeLogger
- immich
- Manyfold
- Firefly-III
- Firefly-III-Data-Importer
- OpenProject
- Grocy
Archival Storage
- Forgejo
- docmost
- wikijs
- ArchiveTeam-Warrior
- archivebox
- ipfs-kubo
- kiwix-serve
- Linkwarden
Backups
- Duplicacy
- pgbackweb
- db-backup
- bitwarden-export
- UnraidConfigGuardian
- Thunderbird
- Open-Archiver
- mail-archiver
- luckyBackup
Monitoring
- healthchecks
- UptimeKuma
- smokeping
- beszel-agent
- beszel
Metrics
- Unraid-API
- HDDTemp
- telegraf
- Varken
- nut-influxdb-exporter
- DiskSpeed
- scrutiny
- Grafana
- SpeedFlux
Cameras
- amcrest2mqtt
- frigate
- double-take
- shinobipro
HomeAuto
- wyoming-piper
- wyoming-whisper
- apprise-api
- photon
- Dawarich
- Dawarich---Sidekiq
Specific Tasks
- QDirStat
- alternatrr
- gaps
- binhex-krusader
- wrapperr
Other
- Dockwatch
- Foundry
- RickRoll
- Hypermind
Plus a few more that I redacted.
I look at this list and cry a little bit inside. I can't imagine having to maintain all of this as a hobby.
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.
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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.
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0, it's all organised nicely with nixos
Boooo, you need some chaos in your life. :D
That's why I have one host called theBarrel and it's just 100 Chaos Monkeys and nothing else
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I have 1 podman container on NixOS because some obscure software has a packaging problem with ffmpeg and the NixOS maintainers removed it. docker: command not found
I know using work as an example is cheating, but around 1400-1500 to 5000-6000 depending on load throughout the day.
At home it's 12.
I was watching a video yesterday where an org was churning 30K containers a day because they didn't profile their application correctly and scaled their containers based on a misunderstanding how Linux deals with CPU scheduling.
Yeah that shit is more common than people think.
A big part of the business of cloud providers is that most orgs have no idea how to do shit. Their enterprise consultants are also wildly variable in competence.
There was also a large amount of useless bullshit that I needed to cut down since being hired at my current spot, but the amount of containers is actually warranted. We do have that traffic, which is both happy and sad, since while business is booming, I have to deal with this.
I am like Oprah yelling “you get a container, you get a container, Containers!!!” At my executables.
I create aliases using toolbox so I can run most utils easily and securely.
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Zero. Either it’s just a service with no wrappers, or a full VM.
Zero.
About 35 NixOS VMs though, each running either a single service (e.g. Paperless) or a suite (Sonarr and so on plus NZBGet, VPN,...).
There's additionally a couple of client VMs. All of those distribute over 3 Proxmox hosts accessing the same iSCSI target for VM storage.
SSL and WireGuard are terminated at a physical firewall box running OpnSense, so with very few exceptions, the VMs do not handle any complicated network setup.
A lot of those VMs have zero state, those that do have backup of just that state automated to the NAS (simply via rsync) and from there everything is backed up again through borg to an external storage box.
In the stateless case, deploying a new VM is a single command; in the stateful case, same command, wait for it to come up, SSH in (keys are part of the VM images), run restore-<whatever>.
On an average day, I spend 0 minutes managing the homelab.
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44 containers and my average load over 15 min is still 0,41 on an old Intel nuc.
How it started : 0
Max : 0
Now : 0
Iso27002 and provenance validation goes brrrrr
9 containers of which 1 is container manager with 8 containers inside (multi-containers counted as 1). And 9 that are installed off the NAS app store. 18 total.
Am not using docker yet. Currently I just have one Proxmox LXC, but am planning on selfhosting a lot more in the near future...
Awesome! I like ProxMox. Check out the Helper Scripts if you haven't already. Some people like them, some don't.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| LXC | Linux Containers |
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| Plex | Brand of media server package |
| SSH | Secure Shell for remote terminal access |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| VPS | Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) |
| k8s | Kubernetes container management package |
9 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 8 acronyms.
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11 running on my little N150 box. Barely ever breaks a sweat.
Well the containers are grouped into services. I would easily have 15 services running, some run a separate postgres or redis while others do an internal sqlite so hard to say (I'm not where I can look rn).
If we're counting containers then between Nextcloud and Home Assistant I'm probably over 20 already lol.
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.
59 according to docker info.
Hot damn. That is a far better way then counting the lines from docker ps
Hot damn
That literally got a snort, because I feel the same way when I find a much easier/cleaner way of doing something.
I have 43 running, and this was a great reminder to do some cleanup. I can probably reduce my count by 5-10.
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.
At my house around 10-15. For lemmy.ca and our other sites, 35ish maybe. At work... hundreds.
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.
36, with plans for more
51 containers on my Unraid server, but only 39 running right now
I don't have access to my server right now, but it's around 20 containers on my little N100 box.
About 62 deployments with 115 "pods"
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