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What are your homelab stats? (reddrefuge.com)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I just spent a good chunk of today migrating some services onto new docker containers in Proxmox LXCs.

As I was updating my network diagram, I was struck by just how many services, hosts, and LXCs I'm running, so counted everything up.

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

So, it got me wondering about the size of other people's homelabs. What are your stats?

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Do folks actually interact with all these services regularly?

In my case, yep. I believe in as much separation between services as possible, so each service essentially resides on its own docker host, whether physical or Linux container.

That said, some of my services are stacks of multiple containers. For example. my DNS service is a pair of Pi-hole DNS servers, each running their own Pi-hole container, but each one also running containers for Cloudflare tunnel and telemtry export to Prometheus.

Immich has a stack of 6 containers, Piped a stack of 5. So, out of the 66 containers (that aren't Portainer agent or Watchtower), it probably condenses down to around half that number (eg. the 25 docker hosts I have, plus a handful or two others).

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

each service essentially resides on its own docker host, whether physical or Linux container.

This is the way. Multiple simple dedicated systems is so much easier to maintain than a single "do everything" server.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

It's what docker and Proxmox were born to do!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Do folks actually interact with all these services regularly?

Regularly, probably not, just depends. If you only spin things us to setup or learn something, no. https://infosec.pub/comment/5234431