I've settled on running 5 or 6 containers rather than one big one with 5 or 6 processes because: I can host some containers on other physical hosts - I don't n

I've settled on running 5 or 6 containers rather than one big one with 5 or 6 processes because: I can host some containers on other physical hosts - I don't need to keep thinking (what if I fill up the biggest droplet on Digital Ocean) - If one of the services dies or needed kicking - 5/6 of the stack is unaffected - Orchestration is really only a matter of network endpoints getting written to environment variables - not too taxing Running everything is one container also has it's advantages - like being able to push the whole stack as one image.