0. Because I'm old, crusty, and prefer software deployments in a similar manner.

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.

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?

0, it's all organised nicely with nixos

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 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.

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.

Zero. Either it’s just a service with no wrappers, or a full VM.

How it started : 0

Max : 0

Now : 0

Iso27002 and provenance validation goes brrrrr

44 containers and my average load over 15 min is still 0,41 on an old Intel nuc.

Am not using docker yet. Currently I just have one Proxmox LXC, but am planning on selfhosting a lot more in the near future...

I still haven't figured out containers. 🙁

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59 according to docker info.

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.

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.

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

I have 43 running, and this was a great reminder to do some cleanup. I can probably reduce my count by 5-10.

At my house around 10-15. For lemmy.ca and our other sites, 35ish maybe. At work... hundreds.

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.

49, I could imagine running all of those bare would be hard with dependencies

two, one for running discord backup viewer webui and the other for archiveteam warrior containers

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.

About 62 deployments with 115 "pods"