# How Big is a Container, Really?

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How Big is a Container, Really?

One of the first questions in any discussion about cluster sizing tends to be “How many containers are you running?”.\*While this is a good data point (especially if you are pushing the scheduler to its limit)_it_doesn’t show the whole story. We tend to abstract out a container as this homogeneous building block that represents any […]  
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