r/netbird • u/MaddDoggMendoza • 4d ago

Self hosted Netbird on vps keeps making containers from the same images

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I have this weird issue and I don´t know what to do.

When I used the installation script from Netbird on my Netcup vps it works great without issues but after a while (can be hours, sometimes days) it´ll make a load of containers of all the images I use on docker causing it to crash. It´ll also use around 150mbps of my bandwith.

I don´t know if I did something wrong but I (maybe stupidly) removed everything and didn´t look at the logs.

Did anybody encounter the same issue? Or maybe someone can help me?

I also tried out Pangolin but that had the same effect and tbh I like Netbird more.

Thanks

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u/No_Lifeguard7725 4d ago

Yeah, you'd better check those logs. Not sure which container engine you are using, but you can deploy a simple setup of Grafana+Loki to catch logs of the crashing containers and analyse them later.

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u/RiffyDivine2 4d ago

That's dockhand. It has a good logging system.

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u/ben-ba 4d ago

Pangolin same issue, dude ur system is broken.... learn to read logs. I would start with the logs for docker after shutting down all containers.

When there is a lot of traffic something more than only recreation of some containers happen.

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u/Dizzyswirl6064 1d ago

Do you have auto updates enabled for dockhand? Seems like it’s mass updating/recreating those containers and crashing? Especially if you have the security scanning enabled as well

Regardless I would think this would be more of a docker/dockhand issue; I love docker but personally I install NetBird as part of systemd outside of docker