One socket-proxy per container or one for all?

[123mariachi123]

Hi, i am wondering whats the best way to use the socket proxy. I have two docker services running that require access to the socket-proxy. Currently i connect both to one socket-proxy that i run in a separete compose file.
I have port 2375 open and connect the other two containers with

environment:
      DOCKER_HOST: tcp://socket-proxy:2375
networks:
      - socket-proxy-net
...

Now i am wondering if its better to have one socket-proxy per compose.yml since it would allow me to take advantage of the health check and depends_on.

How do you use it?

[11notes]

You can run multiple socket proxies if you need the health check feature. This is not overkill since the socket proxy is a very small process only consuming a few MB of memory.

[123mariachi123]

Thanks a lot @11notes!