Tier Snippets for Self-Hosted Apps

Ready-to-use tier configurations for 40 popular self-hosted applications. Copy the relevant block into your /etc/lxc_autoscale/lxc_autoscale.yaml file and replace 999 with your actual container ID.

INFO

Tier sections must be placed after the DEFAULT section in the configuration file. Tier settings override the defaults for their assigned containers.

Heavy workloads (4-8 cores)

Nextcloud

TIER_NEXTCLOUD:
  cpu_upper_threshold: 85
  cpu_lower_threshold: 20
  memory_upper_threshold: 85
  memory_lower_threshold: 20
  min_cores: 2
  max_cores: 8
  min_memory: 2048
  max_memory: 16384
  lxc_containers:
    - "999"

Jellyfin

TIER_JELLYFIN:
  cpu_upper_threshold: 90
  cpu_lower_threshold: 25
  memory_upper_threshold: 90
  memory_lower_threshold: 25
  min_cores: 4
  max_cores: 8
  min_memory: 4096
  max_memory: 16384
  lxc_containers:
    - "999"

Plex

TIER_PLEX:
  cpu_upper_threshold: 85
  cpu_lower_threshold: 20
  memory_upper_threshold: 85
  memory_lower_threshold: 20
  min_cores: 2
  max_cores: 8
  min_memory: 2048
  max_memory: 16384
  lxc_containers:
    - "999"

GitLab

TIER_GITLAB:
  cpu_upper_threshold: 85
  cpu_lower_threshold: 20
  memory_upper_threshold: 85
  memory_lower_threshold: 20
  min_cores: 4
  max_cores: 8
  min_memory: 4096
  max_memory: 16384
  lxc_containers:
    - "999"

PhotoPrism

TIER_PHOTOPRISM:
  cpu_upper_threshold: 85
  cpu_lower_threshold: 20
  memory_upper_threshold: 85
  memory_lower_threshold: 20
  min_cores: 2
  max_cores: 8
  min_memory: 2048
  max_memory: 8192
  lxc_containers:
    - "999"

OpenProject / Redmine / Rocket.Chat / Seafile / MediaGoblin / Diaspora

TIER_HEAVY_APP:
  cpu_upper_threshold: 85
  cpu_lower_threshold: 20
  memory_upper_threshold: 85
  memory_lower_threshold: 20
  min_cores: 2
  max_cores: 8
  min_memory: 2048
  max_memory: 8192
  lxc_containers:
    - "999"

Medium workloads (2-4 cores)

Mattermost / Matomo / Nextcloud Talk

TIER_MEDIUM_APP:
  cpu_upper_threshold: 85
  cpu_lower_threshold: 20
  memory_upper_threshold: 85
  memory_lower_threshold: 20
  min_cores: 2
  max_cores: 4
  min_memory: 2048
  max_memory: 8192
  lxc_containers:
    - "999"

Home Assistant

TIER_HOME_ASSISTANT:
  cpu_upper_threshold: 85
  cpu_lower_threshold: 20
  memory_upper_threshold: 85
  memory_lower_threshold: 20
  min_cores: 2
  max_cores: 4
  min_memory: 1024
  max_memory: 4096
  lxc_containers:
    - "999"

Grafana / Bitwarden / Gitea / Limesurvey

TIER_STANDARD_APP:
  cpu_upper_threshold: 80
  cpu_lower_threshold: 15
  memory_upper_threshold: 80
  memory_lower_threshold: 15
  min_cores: 1
  max_cores: 4
  min_memory: 512
  max_memory: 2048
  lxc_containers:
    - "999"

Ghost / Trilium Notes / MediaWiki / BookStack / Paperless / Ampache / Etherpad / Invoice Ninja

TIER_MIDRANGE_APP:
  cpu_upper_threshold: 80
  cpu_lower_threshold: 15
  memory_upper_threshold: 80
  memory_lower_threshold: 15
  min_cores: 2
  max_cores: 4
  min_memory: 1024
  max_memory: 4096
  lxc_containers:
    - "999"

Lightweight workloads (1-2 cores)

Uptime Kuma / Pi-hole / Miniflux / Vaultwarden / Kanboard / Wallabag / Paperwork / Tiny Tiny RSS / Shaarli / FreshRSS / Firefly III / Monica / Listmonk

TIER_LIGHTWEIGHT_APP:
  cpu_upper_threshold: 80
  cpu_lower_threshold: 15
  memory_upper_threshold: 80
  memory_lower_threshold: 15
  min_cores: 1
  max_cores: 2
  min_memory: 512
  max_memory: 1024
  lxc_containers:
    - "999"

Customization tips

• Adjust cpu_upper_threshold lower (e.g. 70) for faster scale-up response on latency-sensitive apps.
• On hybrid Intel CPUs, add cpu_pinning: p-cores to heavy tiers and cpu_pinning: e-cores to lightweight ones. See CPU Core Pinning.
• Group multiple containers of the same type into a single tier by adding all their IDs to lxc_containers.