Dude, are you living in your company's server room?

• 116 docker containers
• Running on 25 docker hosts
• 50 are the same on each docker host - Watchtower and Portainer agent
• 38 Proxmox LXCs (19 are docker hosts)
• 8 physical servers
• 7 VLANs
• 5 SSIDs
• 2 NASes

And a partridge in a pear treeeee.

When I read lists like this, I often wonder, what is this person doing with all these containers and such? Do they actually use all of them regularly?

I've got:

1 proxmox machine serving - Openmediavault - 2 shares (jellyfin, general smb shares) Homeassistant Uptimekuma for monitoring Jellyfin

And some misc VMs for trying out things.

1 pi4b - pihole 1 pi3a+ tailscale subnet router / exit node

I often look at lists of things i can host and think to myself "do I need this?". This br8ngs me back to huge lists of services like this and my curiosity. Do folks actually interact with all these services regularly? Honest question, no shade intended.

It's not much, but I've got a little LG netbook with an Atom CPU and 2GB RAM running Pi-hole and Syncthing.

How do people get to so many Docker containers before moving to Kubernetes? I only have 76 containers across 68 pods and that's far too much for me to manage in Docker.

You've got like a whole DCs worth of stuff. I've downscaled the hardware in my server a lot, but it's still just a single Threadripper 2970wx with 128 GB RAM and 50 TB of ZFS storage and 50 TB of cloud based object storage in a midtower case. I have like 20 containers running, one is a Caddy webserver which acts as a reverse proxy for all the others.

I love to do things to excess as much as the next geek, but I could never find a reason to run as much as you have.

• 8 Hosts (6 physical/local, 2 VPS/remote)
• 72 Docker containers
  • Pi-hole (3 of them, 2 local, 1 on a VPS)
  • Orbital-sync (keeps the pi-holes synced up)
  • Searxng (search engine)
  • Kutt (URL shortener)
  • LenPaste (Pastebin-like)
  • Ladder (paywall bypass)
  • Squoosh (Image converter, runs fully in browser but I like hosting it anyway)
  • Paperless-ng (Document management)
  • CryptPad (Secure E2EE office colaboration)
  • Immich (Google Photos replacement)
  • Audiobookplayer (Audiobook player)
  • Calibre (Ebook management)
  • NextCloud (Don't honestly use this one much these days)
  • VaultWarden (Password/2FA/PassKey management)
  • Memos (Like Google Keep)
  • typehere (A simple scratchpad that stores in browser memory)
  • librechat (Kind of like chatgpt except self-hosted and able to use your own models/api keys)
  • Stable Diffusion (AI image generator)
  • JellyFin (Video streaming)
  • Matrix (E2EE Secure Chat provider)
  • IRC (oldschool chat service)
  • FireFlyIII (finance management)
  • ActualBudget (another finance thing)
  • TimeTagger (Time tracking/invoicing)
  • Firefox Sync (Use my own server to handle syncing between browsers)
  • LibreSpeed (A few instances, to speed testing my connection to the servers)
  • Probably others I can't think of right now

Most of these I use at least regularly, quite a few I use constantly.

I can't imagine living without Searxng, VaultWarden, Immich, JellyFin, and CryptPad.

I also wouldn't want to go back to using the free ad-supported services out there for things like memos, kutt, and lenpaste.

Also librechat I think is underappreciated. Even just using it for GPT with an api key is infinitely better for your privacy than using the free chatgpt service that collects/owns all your data.

But it's also great for using gpt4 to generate an image prompt, sending it through a prompt refiner, and then sending it to Stable Diffusion to generate an image, all via a single self-hosted interface.

• 33 nomad jobs, most being containers
• 12 physical nomad clients
  • 3 amd64 poweredge
  • 2 pi4
  • 6 Nano Pi r5c
  • 1 odroid M1
• Ceph: (nomad orchestrated)
  • 8 OSD
  • 50TB total raw disk

I don't have a homelab ( space contrains ) but I do have 2 vps that I use to host in total 13 docker containers, mail server and an xmpp server.

Edit: My lemmy server is also hosted on them.

What I'm more interesting in is what is it that you selfhost to have so many docker containers?

I have a NAS and it runs deluge to download torrents, and hosts two very basic websites.

How many W are you pulling, on the average? Or kWh per year.

I've got one headless cheap desktop PC sitting under my desk.

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Currently 3 physical boxes down from 4 and aiming for 2. It pretty well comes down to a hypervisor and a NAS and the regular aux gear like a switch and modem. They're big boxes though with about 35 TB storage, .5 TB RAM, and 72 cores between them so lots of space to make imaginary computers in.

Right now my goal is reducing the power footprint. Kill-a-watt places the whole set at 650 watts today and I should knock about 150 off when I get the other box virtualized.

I'm able to get a lot of gear secondhand through my job, so I've got:

One 2u Intel server running proxmox in a 'cluster' (circa 2013ish. Added RAM and upgraded the CPU/storage.)

One Intel nuc with an i7-7th gen as the other host in the cluster - only one VM is set to fail over between the two if needed.

VMs:

• Plex
• 2x PiHoles (one of these is the failover VM) (these also have a few docker containers like Uptime Kuma.)
• Windows arr box (I know it's blasphemy but I felt more comfortable doing that stuff in windows)
• anything else I want to mess with because the server really doesn't run that hard.

Network:

• Sonicwall TZ 300 (incl a perpetual VPN license)
• Unifi 24 port switch (it's gigabit and POE but doesn't output enough power for the...)
• single Unifi AP.

All acquired over the last couple years for the low low price of "it was going into the trash anyway"

A single SFF desktop setup in a Node306. 2700x, 32 GB RAM, Arc A380, some WD reds.

• Homeassistant & associated packages for esphome and Zwave stuff
• Jellyfin
• *arr suite + transmission
• yacht
• uptimekuma
• paperless
• immich
• authelia with OIDC SSO for containers where possible
• traefik for reverse proxy
• Nexcloud
• valheim server
• boinc in the winter
• syncthing for phone sync
• more services for keeping up the others

Soon a pihole to come.

I want to expand my smart home setup. My project this spring is integrating my smart gas and electric meters into homeassistant. We are completely stripping the house so I am wiring up everything with KNX with a nee Zwave devices where needed. Greatly expanding the smartish home.

I also have to set up a proper network. Right now I am using my Proximus Internet Box from the ISP which admittedly is pretty customizable.

Dang, how does your isp feel about that many machines talking out to the internet, have they made you pay for business plans yet?

Old laptop, Debian with docker running nextcloud, navidrome, jellyfin, gitea, librespeed, wireguard, dnsmasq, and nginx as a reverse proxy.

I have a very modest 7 docker containers on a vm on my gaming rig and I have a raspberry pi for my DNS server. Honestly my setup is quite scuffed (in comparison to yours), but it does what I need it to do

Mine's pretty moderate in comparison to yours lol

• 2 cloud VPSes
• 2 physical locations
• 4 physical servers
• ~20-30 docker containers across the servers
• 3 VMs
• 3 managed switches
• 5 VLANs (2 with internet access)
• 2 SSIDs

One laptop, 2 ssd, 4 Proxmox lxcs, 3 docker containers, 2 routers.

2 Raspberry Pi 4 with a few services running (some directly, some via docker): pihole, pialert, gitlab plantuml, munin, restic rest server, jupyter instance, airsonic-advanced. And an old synology NAS which serves as document and media server

• 3 DL360G8 Esxi (86Ghz/512GB RAM)
• 1 DL380G8 TrueNAS
• 1 DL360G7 Veeam
• Dell n5070 Extended PVE SophosnUTM
• 48 Port Catalyst rack switch
• Cisco 2921
• Fibre Channel / iSCSI

50+ VMs and containers:

• VMware ESXi, vCenter, VMware Log Insight, VMware OPS
• DMVPN to remote locations like a desk switch at work and family member houses
• Sophos UTM
• Active Directory for my home computers
• hybrid sync to MS Entra (Azure Active Directory) with Entra Connect
• hybrid Exchange on Premise and Exchange online
• Active Directory for management network
• Security Onion VMs for IDS
• Network monitoring like Elastiflow, PRTG
• Docker, gitlab, OpenSalt / Saltstack
• Trellix ePO for AV
• Nessus vuln scanners
• Team Awareness Kit (TAK) server
• Active Directory Certificate Services
• Home media applications

These things are mostly to maintain familiarity and documentation development. I write off the cost of electricity as continuing education and professional development. More enterprise than some enterprises.

I've pared mine down a lot. The biggest hurdle for me has been storage.

It used to be 5 2u servers running a ceph cluster, but that got to be expensive and unruly.

Now it's mainly a small half depth supermicro for my firewall, a half depth supermicro for home assistant, a 2u Dell for unraid, and a small NAS.

Unraid houses Plex and the *arrs. Along with a handful of other useful services like immich.

I do colo a 1u HP though that houses my pbx, web server, unifi controller, jirai server, nextcloud, email, and a bunch of other servers that I run.

Now, I've got a lot of spare hardware though. 7 Dell 1u servers, 2 Dell 2u, a supermicro 3u, an HP 2u and a bunch of things clients that I might turn into replacements for my rokus.