Expand instructions on using systemd to manage containers

Signed-off-by: Tadej Janež <tadej.j@nez.si>
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Tadej Janež
2016-06-22 10:00:56 +02:00
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@ -76,6 +76,10 @@ a new service that will be started after the docker daemon service has started.
[Install]
WantedBy=local.target
If you intend to use this as a system service, put the above contents in a file
in the `/etc/systemd/system` directory, e.g.
`/etc/systemd/system/docker-redis_server.service`.
If you need to pass options to the redis container (such as `--env`),
then you'll need to use `docker run` rather than `docker start`. This will
create a new container every time the service is started, which will be stopped
@ -86,3 +90,12 @@ and removed when the service is stopped.
ExecStart=/usr/bin/docker run --env foo=bar --name redis_server redis
ExecStop=/usr/bin/docker stop -t 2 redis_server ; /usr/bin/docker rm -f redis_server
...
To start using the service, reload systemd and start the service:
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl start docker-redis_server.service
To enable the service at system startup, execute:
systemctl enable docker-redis_server.service