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# Automatically Start Containers
You can use your Docker containers with process managers like
`upstart`, `systemd` and `supervisor`.
As of Docker 1.2,
[restart policies](/reference/commandline/cli/#restart-policies) are the
built-in Docker mechanism for restarting containers when they exit. If set,
restart policies will be used when the Docker daemon starts up, as typically
happens after a system boot. Restart policies will ensure that linked containers
are started in the correct order.
## Introduction
If restart policies don't suit your needs (i.e., you have non-Docker processes
that depend on Docker containers), you can use a process manager like
[upstart](http://upstart.ubuntu.com/),
[systemd](http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/) or
[supervisor](http://supervisord.org/) instead.
If you want a process manager to manage your containers you will need to
run the docker daemon with the `-r=false` so that docker will not
automatically restart your containers when the host is restarted.
## Using a Process Manager
Docker does not set any restart policies by default, but be aware that they will
conflict with most process managers. So don't set restart policies if you are
using a process manager.
*Note:* Prior to Docker 1.2, restarting of Docker containers had to be
explicitly disabled. Refer to the
[previous version](/v1.1/articles/host_integration/) of this article for the
details on how to do that.
When you have finished setting up your image and are happy with your
running container, you can then attach a process manager to manage it.
When you run `docker start -a` docker will automatically attach to the
When you run `docker start -a`, Docker will automatically attach to the
running container, or start it if needed and forward all signals so that
the process manager can detect when a container stops and correctly
restart it.
Here are a few sample scripts for systemd and upstart to integrate with
docker.
Docker.
## Sample Upstart Script
In this example We've already created a container to run Redis with
`--name redis_server`. To create an upstart script for our container, we
create a file named `/etc/init/redis.conf` and place the following into
it:
## Examples
The examples below show configuration files for two popular process managers,
upstart and systemd. In these examples, we'll assume that we have already
created a container to run Redis with `--name=redis_server`. These files define
a new service that will be started after the docker daemon service has started.
### upstart
description "Redis container"
author "Me"
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/usr/bin/docker start -a redis_server
end script
Next, we have to configure docker so that it's run with the option
`-r=false`. Run the following command:
$ sudo sh -c "echo 'DOCKER_OPTS=\"-r=false\"' >> /etc/default/docker"
## Sample systemd Script
### systemd
[Unit]
Description=Redis container