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How Many Containers Were Really Needed

Enter services, environments, team size, and your appetite for orchestration. The report returns the provisioned number and the real number, which is always embarrassing.

a result with no scientific value. reliability: the same as always.

environment settings

technical assessment

you would provision

39 containers

self-checking health checks
8
that nobody knows what they do
10
average idle CPU
85%
monthly cost in loaves of bread
55

actually needed

1

and that’s optimistic. Depending on the process’s mood, zero.

potential savings: 38 containers and 97% of the coffee budget.

the math ignores queues, isolation, concurrency, atomic deploys, and the fact that someone has to sleep. It’s a slider joke—but the “urge to orchestrate” slider is the most honest one on this site.

didn’t like it? good. there’s more.