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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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
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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.
13 with podman on openSUSE MicroOS.
i used to have a few more but wasn't using them enough so i cut them.
I don't use them. I'm using OpenBSD on my server which don't support this feature.
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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.
Uh.. Probably somewhere around 150?
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.
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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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!
$ docker ps | wc -l
14
Just running 13 myself.
I have about 15 trueNAS apps only 2 of them are custom (endurain and molly socket). They are containers but very low effort handled mostly by the system. I also have 3 LXC. And 2 VMs (home assistant and openWRT). I spend only few minutes a week on maintenance. And then I tinker for several hours a week, testing new apps or enhancing current ones configs.
None. I run my services they way they are meant to be run. There is no point in containers for a small setup. Its kinda lazy and you miss out on how to install them.
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@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.
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.
13 in a docker LXC, most of my stuff runs on 13 other dedicated LXCs
49, I could imagine running all of those bare would be hard with dependencies
13 running on my little Synology.
Actually more than I expected, I would have guesses closer to 8
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.
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
74 across 2 proxmox nodes in a few lxcs
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
Server01: 64 Server02: 19 Plus a bunch of sidecar containers solely for configs that aren't running.
two, one for running discord backup viewer webui and the other for archiveteam warrior containers
37 between ProxMox and CasaOS.